Category Archives: Near East
| Lavrov sur l’opération sur Mossoul: les combattants ISIS peuvent se déplacer vers la Syrie
« Nous allons évaluer la situation et prendre des décisions à la fois de nature politique et militaire si cela se produit, » – il a ajouté. « J’espère que la coalition menée par les USA, qui est activement engagée dans l’opération pour prendre Mossoul, va le prendre en compte. «
| We finally know what Hillary Clinton knew all along – US allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar are funding Isis
It is fortunate for Saudi Arabia and Qatar that the furore over the sexual antics of Donald Trump is preventing much attention being given to the latest batch of leaked emails to and from Hillary Clinton. Most fascinating of these is what reads like a US State Department memo, dated 17 August 2014, on the appropriate US response to the rapid advance of Isis forces, which were then sweeping through northern Iraq and eastern Syria.
| US enters Yemen fray with missile attacks on Houthi radar sites
A US destroyer fired cruise missiles on Houthi rebels early Thursday morning, attacking radar installations that the US claims were used by the rebels to target the USS Mason, another destroyer.
The missile launches from the USS Nitze mark the first time the US had directly attacked the Houthis in Yemen.
‘Sad of state affairs’ in Iraq as last month’s surge in violence leaves more casualties – UN
5 October 2016 – The United Nations in Iraq has reported that civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict in the country, with a more than 28 per cent spike in fatalities and a 17 per cent increase in injuries from August to September this year.
“It is a very sad state of affairs that the numbers of Iraqis killed and injured remains very high and unacceptable. Civilians continue to bear the brunt of the violence,” said Ján Kubiš, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Iraq said in a news release issued by the UN Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMI), which he heads.
Syrian officials: Audio recording between ISIS and US before Deir Ezzor massacre found
Paul Antonopoulos, chief editor of “Almasdar news” wrote:
“Sputnik have reported that the Syrian intelligence possesses an audio recording of conversation between ISIS terrorists and the US military prior to the Washington-led coalition airstrikes on government troops near Deir Ezzor on September 17, the speaker of the People’s Council of Syria said Monday.
