Posts
US is closing in on Damascus
US
is closing in on Damascus, reports are coming out that another base
has been set up by the US in Southern Syria. At the same time the
Free Syrian Army has launched large scale military attack on Syrian
defense forces near al Suwayde where Russian Special forces are
located
too.
links:
http://russia-insider.com/en/military...
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/201...
https://twitter.com/todayinsyria/stat...
https://twitter.com/worldonalert/stat...
http://www.levanttimes.com/russian-sp...
Russian Jet Intercepts US Nuclear Bomber Flying 250 Miles From Moscow
6
June, 2017
Nothing
warms up a cold war quite like a long-range nuclear bomber flying
along Russia’s border, so when the U.S. flew its infamous B-52
above the Baltic Sea on Tuesday morning, the Russians scrambled their
own fighter jet to intercept the U.S. warplane.
The
Pentagon has confirmed a report from Russian news agency TASS that a
U.S. B-52 “Stratofortress” strategic bomber was intercepted by a
Russian Su-27 fighter jet along the Russian border at 10:00 local
time Tuesday morning (3:00 pm EST).
We're
revolutionizing the news industry, but we need your help! Click here
to get started.
Built
to launch nuclear weapons, a B-52 flying so close to Russia may
reasonably alarm the average person, but U.S. Department of Defense
spokesperson Laura M. Seal referred to the flight as a “routine
mission” in an emailed statement to Anti-Media. Seal also
downplayed the Russian intercept as being one of “a number of
intercepts that take place on a regular basis.”
“The
vast majority” of such intercepts “are conducted in a safe
manner,” she added.
The
Russian Ministry of Defense claimed the Russian Su-27 jet escorted
the B-52 until it changed direction, away from the Russian border,
TASS reported.
The
B-52 was still in the air by Tuesday afternoon, and the crew had not
yet been debriefed on the matter, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff
Davis told Fox News.
Reuters
characterized Moscow’s mood as “unimpressed” with the
situation.
Russia
scrambles again, intercepts Norway military jet near the Barents Sea
Two-and-a-half
hours after that intercept, Russia scrambled another jet, a MiG-31,
to escort a Royal Norwegian Air Force anti-submarine P-3 Orion
warplane flying along Russian airspace near the Barents Sea, Reuters
reported.
The
Russian Defense Ministry said the Norwegian jet was “visually
identified,” as its transponders were switched off, the
Moscow-funded RT news agency reported. There is no formal agreement
between NATO and Russia on the use of transponders, which allow for
radar detection.
Norwegian
Joint Headquarters senior spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Ivar Moen
denied any “intercept” by Russia, CNN reported. Moen reportedly
stressed that the interaction between the two aircraft was “normal.”
Norway
is one of NATO’s original 12 members. The U.S.-led military
alliance founded in 1949 now counts 29 member states. While NATO
treats Russia as an existential threat, the opposite is also true,
and U.S.-Russian relations, in particular, have worsened in recent
years.
US-Coalition War Planes Just Bombed Syrian Troops, Again
6
June, 2017
The
U.S.-led coalition in Syria launched
a new round of
airstrikes on Tuesday against forces loyal to the Syrian government.
The U.S. has said these forces threatened the U.S. and partnered
forces based in southern Syria.
“Despite
previous warnings, pro-regime forces entered the agreed-upon
de-confliction zone with a tank, artillery, anti-aircraft weapons,
armed technical vehicles and more than 60 soldiers,”
the coalition said in a statement, as reported by Reuters.
For Anti-Media’s regular
readers, the strike should come as no surprise, as just
yesterday we
reported that an Iranian-backed militia operating under the banner of
the Syrian Arab Army have been amassing near a U.S. training base in
the al-Tanf region.
This
is the second time these pro-regime forces have been struck by the
U.S.-led coalition in less
than a month.
A report
published in
April this year by the London-based IHS Jane’s Terrorism and
Insurgency Center, a leading security analysis agency, found that the
majority of ISIS’ battles between April 1, 2016, and March 31,
2017, were fought against the Syrian military and its associated
forces (such as the ones now repeatedly being struck by the U.S.
military).
Striking
these troops makes no sense in the wider context of attempting to
defeat ISIS, but it does make perfect sense within the broader U.S.
agenda, which aims to take control of the region and further weaken
the Syrian government, a secular government that has been embroiled
in a six-year battle with hardline extremists.
According
to regional
outlet al-Masdar,
the Syrian Arab Army and associated forces have struck back against
the U.S. military by attacking U.S.-backed forces on the ground.
According to the report, the Syrian military seized several key
points from U.S.-backed forces in rural Damascus.
New photos emerge of Omran Daqneesh, the boy who became a symbol of Aleppo's suffering
Syria Strike II: US-led coalition attacks pro-govt positions
Iraqi forces caught torturing captives in Mosul mostly supervised by US – security official
Iraqi military, who were filmed torturing and abusing civilians, are “mainly supervised by US commanders,” a member of the Baghdad Security Committee, has said, telling RT that American military personnel have “some type of immunity” in such case.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.