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12/09/2024

The ex-head of the British MI6, John Sawers, calls for a review of HTS terrorist designation

Former UK intelligence agency head has publicly called for London to reconsider and review its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a terrorist group, as it is currently involved in forming the new salvation government in Syria.

12/09/2024

Hamas becomes the first Palestinian party to congratulate Syria on “achieving their aspirations for freedom and justice.”

The Palestinian group expressed hope for a future partnership with the new Syrian transitional government and urged all elements of Syria’s society to be able to put past grievances behind in order to build a new future for the nation.

12/09/2024

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is said to have refused to open up a front against Israel

It is alleged that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had proposed opening up a Syrian front against Israel, with the help of Yemen’s Ansarallah, yet this was rejected by the former Syrian leader. Israel has now used the fall of the government to launch a war against the country, occupying territory in the south and destroying Syria’s military capabilities. The Syrian opposition are yet to condemn Israel’s action or take any action, also refraining from opening any front.

12/09/2024

Israel considering major attack on Yemen

Reports suggest that the Israeli war cabinet is strongly advocating for a “major attack” on Yemen, a development that was revealed to the Israeli public yesterday by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (Kan).

The Yemeni resistance today continued to support the people of Gaza by launching drones targeting sensitive Israeli military sites in the occupied city of Ashdod.

12/09/2024

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12/09/2024

Israel has bombed Syria over 100 times in the last 24 hours

Following the overthrow of Assad, Israel has intensified its bombardment of Syria, launching a series of airstrikes since yesterday.

Israeli forces have bombed Syria at least 100 times in the last 24 hours, targeting military sites, including air defence positions, intelligence headquarters, and the country’s missile depots.

This intensification of bombing the country comes shortly after Israeli occupation forces carried out ground operations in the Syrian parts of Mount Hermon and the buffer zone in the Golan Heights.

12/09/2024

Assad closed the Yemeni AnsarAllah-linked embassy at the request of Saudi Arabia in 2023

The Yemeni resistance claimed that the former Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, shut down their embassy in Damascus in exchange for the reopening of the Saudi embassy in 2023.

Nasruddin Amer, a spokesperson for Ansarallah, took to X and stated, “Our embassy in Syria was closed by Bashar in exchange for the opening of the Saudi embassy.” The spokesperson subsequently confirmed that in October 2023, the ambassador and embassy personnel had to make their way back to Yemen.

12/09/2024

Israel seizes more Palestinian land in the West Bank as annexation fears grow

The Israelis have seized 43,000 dunams of land from the West Bank in order to pave the way for new settlement expansion. This move comes as Israel is expected to soon formally annex large areas of the occupied territory.

12/07/2024

Israel mobilises its forces on the Golan Heights in order to invade Syria

The Israelis have long sought to create a “buffer zone” in southern Syria and have been working on a project to use Syrian opposition groups to help them achieve this goal, which would lead to an expansion of Israeli occupation of Syria’s territory.

12/07/2024

CNN hosts a favourable interview to Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani

The interview is part of an ongoing effort to rebrand the leader of HTS, which is a rebrand for Al-Qaeda in Syria. Al-Jolani was a former commander of ISIS.

12/06/2024

Tel Aviv University has established a “War Room” to aid in Israel’s genocide against Gaza

The same university also developed dog cameras for the Israeli army’s K-9 unit to aid in filming videos of the missions the dogs were used for.

12/06/2024

Israel’s role in the Syrian war to secure its own interests

The Israeli military has been involved in backing at least a dozen Syrian opposition groups, including the Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra, which would later change its name to Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.

12/06/2024

Two sides of the same coin

NATO-backed forces in Syria are respectable “rebels” while Palestinians in Gaza will always be “terrorists,” even if they don’t fight back.

Credit: Carlos Latuff

12/05/2024

3 US soldiers in Syria being evaluated for brain injuries

On Tuesday, a mortar attack targeted a U.S. base in Deir Ezzor, Syria, leaving three American soldiers injured. The Pentagon confirmed that the soldiers are being evaluated for possible traumatic brain injuries.

The attack is reported to have involved rockets and artillery fired at the base, located near the Euphrates River.

12/05/2024

Turkish backed SNA forces and Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham have captured the Syrian city of Hama

After the fall of Aleppo, Hama is the next major city to fall and leaves the route open for the Turkish backed forces to seize control of the city of Homs.

12/05/2024

Israel has raised its threat levels for Armenia and The Maldives

After the killing of an Israeli former Givati Brigade fights and Rabbi, who was killed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Tel Aviv is taking extra precautions for its citizens overseas who could become targets, especially former army soldiers and officers.

12/05/2024

Mega-corporation CEO, Blackrock’s Larry Fink, says that it doesn’t matter who wins the US Presidential election

Fink also previously expressed that he was tired of people telling him that this election was the most important in our lifetime. This was down to the fact that nothing fundamentally changes between both parties in his eyes.

12/05/2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is again accusing his political opponents of pursuing a coup

These claims from Israel’s PM come as he faces court again of corruption charges, this also comes at a time when Netanyahu is trying to rid his military and government of all dissenting voices.

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Israel military chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, discusses the four front war which they are now engaged in Halevi notes that troops were sent into Syria, while the Israeli army also advances deeper into, while attacking Gaza and the West Bank. This multi-front war has been fought entirely in contravention of International Law and has led to Israel illegally occupying more land inside Syria and Lebanon.

Turkish military posing as rebels? During a live broadcast from the city of Hama, Syria, a Turkish individual posing as a rebel was asked, “What is your purpose?” He replied, “We came to liberate these lands.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks about the war in Syria The leader of Türkiye suggests that the armed groups that his nation backs will head to Damascus and notes that normalisation talks collapsed between Ankara and Damascus.

“My favorite animal is a N*****” an Israeli says before abusing a Black child The incident was filmed by an Israeli in the southern occupied city of Um al-Rashash (Eilat). It was posted casually on TikTok.

“The house was completely destroyed....” Mazal Machpud, an Israeli settler of Petah Tikva, recounts in a quivering voice the moment when her home was struck directly by missiles from southern Lebanon.

“No one is above the law” said US President Joe Biden, except his own son The decision take by the Democratic Party President to pardon his son, after his administration repeatedly promised he wouldn’t take such action, demonstrates a brazen level of lawlessness amongst politicians in Washington, which has caused much of the dissatisfaction that we see from the American public today.

Israeli settler movement leader Danielle Weiss calls for immediate settlement expansion into Gaza Just over a month ago, Weiss’s Nachala organisation held a conference on settlement expansion inside the Gaza Strip, which was attended by Israeli officials from the ruling coalition, including members of the Likud Party and ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

“Every prisoner who’s inside with you is your brother.” Nawwaf Al-Salaymah offers words of advice to his 14-year-old son Ayham as he prepares to serve a one-year sentence in Al-Maskoubiyah, a Zionist prison in Jerusalem.

“Al-Aqsa? Pigs...” Rebels in Aleppo are filmed taking down the a picture of the Qibli Mosque located on the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem, occupied Palestine during the recent invasion of the Syrian city.