Author: Steven Sahiounie

Units of the Russian military police have been deployed to the city of Saraqib — located in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, where tensions have recently escalated — to ensure security there, the Russian Defense Ministry’s centre for Syria reconciliation said on Monday. “Taking into consideration how important it is to ensure security and unhampered movement of vehicles and civilians on M4 — M5 highways [connecting Latakia and Saraqib, and Damascus and Aleppo respectively], units of the Russian military police have been deployed to the city of Saraqib, starting 17:00, March 2, 2020,” the reconciliation centre said in a statement. On…

President Trump said the US had been speaking with President Erdogan of Turkey “a lot” over the situation in Idlib, and confirmed that the two countries were discussing Ankara’s request for the temporary deployment of US Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems. The United States will not provide air support to Turkey in the wartorn Syrian province of Idlib, Pentagon Chief Mark Esper has said, speaking to reporters in Washington on Monday. Asked directly if US assistance would include air support, Esper responded bluntly “No.” “I should add that the the United States is looking at providing increased humanitarian aid for the…

The situation in the wayward Syrian province of Idlib turned into an active shooting war between Syrian and Turkish troops last week after a Syrian Army strike targeting Nusra* terrorists killed nearly three dozen Turkish military personnel mixed in among the jihadists. The strike prompted Ankara to launch a major operation in the region. Turkish drones in northwestern Syria are targeting everything that moves if it is suspected of being Syrian military-related, Idlib-based Rossiya 1 correspondent Evgeny Poddubny has reported. “As soon as Turkish attack drones appeared over the skies of Idlib, the nature of the fighting changed dramatically,” the…

By:Lilly Martin, writer Last night, we were very close to open warfare. As you know, Turkey invaded Syria to support the Al Qaeda terrorists in Idlib. Turkey gave the terrorists shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles. They used it to target a Russian jet over Idlib. Russia and Syria both fly over Idlib, and target specific locations on the ground which have been selected by snitches on the ground who give the location of terrorists. The Russian pilot avoided being hit by taking countermeasures against the heat-seeking missile, but he reported the event. Later, the Syrian airforce bombed a group of terrorists who…

Steven Sahiounie, political commentator Mohammed Ali al-Naim, age 27 an engineer in Gaza, and married with a child, was shot and killed by the ‘Israeli’ military on February 23, near Khan Younis.  After killing him, fellow Gazan onlookers tried to retrieve his body to deliver it to his family, but an ‘Israeli’ military ‘Caterpillar’ bulldozer arrived, and gunfire was used to disperse the onlookers, with several of them injured.   A local journalist, Muthana al-Najjar, captured the scene on video as the teeth of the bulldozer’s bucket caught the clothing of the deceased, and then the operator lifted the bucket and…

Turkish-backed terrorists launched at least two missiles at Syrian warplanes flying over Greater Idlib. Opposition activists acknowledged that both missiles missed their targets. The activists identified one of the targeted warplanes as a L-39, a training and light attack jet used by the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) in close air support missions. Turkish-backed militants likely used U.S.-made Stinger man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADs). The infrared guided missile has a range of 4,800 meters only. Last week, two Stinger missiles were launched from a Turkish “observation post” in southern Idlib at a Russian Su-24. The warplane dodged both of them by maneuvering and…

India has placed an order of five units of the S-400 missile defence system worth $5.5 billion in October 2018. The Russian side had confirmed that production of the system has already begun and the training of Indian specialists will start very soon. Indian Air Force Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria has categorically rejected the reports about delay in induction of much needed S-400 air missile defence system. He said India and Russia have been optimising the delivery schedule which will make the induction process quicker. “The programme delivery schedule is being optimised in coordination with Russia to enable…

Andrew Osborn Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States wanted one and threatened to place hypersonic nuclear missiles on ships or submarines near U.S. territorial waters. The Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in 1962 when Moscow responded to a U.S. missile deployment in Turkey by sending ballistic missiles to Cuba, sparking a standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. More than five decades on, tensions are rising again over Russian fears that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, as a landmark Cold…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said earlier this month that Tehran did not need anyone’s permission to continue boosting its military capabilities and developing its missile programme. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Washington would impose sanctions on 13 entities in Russia, China, Iraq, and Turkey, for “supporting Iran’s missile programme”. Pompeo, a Trump appointee, further added that sanctions against individuals and entities in those countries were “consistent with our efforts to use all available measures” to slow the development and eventual deployment of Iranian missiles. In particular, five Chinese and Turkish entities and individuals were included in the…

BY JEREMY SALT Clearly Colonel Myles B. Caggins III is both a patriot and a God-fearing man. As the communications director for task force Inherent Resolve in Iraq (stated mission the destruction of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), he is far from home in Columbus, Ohio. His home church, the Edgwood Church of Christ, stays in touch with a steady flow of greeting cards and once he’s back he intends to treat the veterans who have been following him with a meal at Ed’s Southern Cooking. Colonel Caggins describes himself in interviews as a word warrior whose goal…