Bombs fell on the country’s chief port city, Latakia, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), which added that blasts were heard in the vicinity of the port while dubbing the strikes “Israeli air aggression.” “The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression …
Read More »Little Amal: why a Syrian refugee puppet is an abomination and an insult
A bug-eyed and waxy-skinned effigy of a 10-year-old Syrian girl, Little Amal was designed and built by British activists and South African puppeteers, and set out this summer on an 8,000km (5,000-mile) ‘walk’ from the Syria-Turkey border all the way to the UK. Her journey was intended to symbolize that …
Read More »Syrian soldier killed, 3 wounded after ‘Israeli attack’ south of Palmyra – state media
The attack near Palmyra came in the late hours of Wednesday night, killing one soldier and wounding three others, SANA reported, citing a military source that pinned the strikes on “the Israeli enemy.” “The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the al-Tanf area towards the Palmyra area, …
Read More »Syrian air defenses shot down 21 of 24 Israeli missiles fired in latest raid on Damascus, Russian military says
“At about 1:30 September 3, four Israeli Air Force F-15 tactical fighters fired 24 guided missiles at targets in the Syrian Arab Republic from Lebanese airspace,” Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of Russia’s Reconciliation Center for Syria, said in a statement on Friday, referring to an attack on Damascus …
Read More »Syrian air defenses downed 22 Israeli missiles fired from Lebanese airspace – Russian Defense Ministry
“On August 19, 2021, six Israeli Air Force tactical fighters launched 24 guided missiles from Lebanese airspace at targets in the Syrian Arab Republic,” Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of Russia’s Reconciliation Center for Syria, said in a statement on Friday. The Israeli strikes originated from around Beirut, Lebanon’s …
Read More »Collective punishment: Rioters in Turkish capital target Syrian refugees after teen is stabbed to death (VIDEO)
Emirhan Yalcin, 18, was killed in an altercation between Turks and Syrians in the neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon. As night fell on Ankara, an angry mob descended on Altindag, targeting the Syrian refugee community: smashing and looting shops, overturning cars, and throwing bricks and rocks through windows of homes. At …
Read More »Syrian air defense units intercept Israeli missiles near Damascus, thwarting THIRD raid in a week – Russia’s Defense Ministry
The airstrike was carried out from outside the Syrian airspace, around 5:40am Sunday morning, when two Israeli F-16 jets fired two guided missiles, targeting unspecified facilities in the town of Set (Sayyidah) Zaynab some 10km south of Damascus. Syrian air defense units – equipped with Russian-made Buk-M2E systems – successfully intercepted …
Read More »Tommy Robinson loses libel case brought by Syrian teenager, must hand over £100,000 in damages
In a High Court judgment on Thursday, Mr Justice Matthew Nicklin ordered Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, to pay the damages and cover 18-year-old Jamal Hijazi’s legal fees. Hijazi was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield in October 2018. In videos posted …
Read More »Syrian air defenses thwart ‘Israeli aggression’ in Aleppo countryside – state media
The attack occurred in the al-Safirah area in southern Aleppo late on Monday night, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported, also sharing alleged footage of the moment the munitions were intercepted. Other videos purporting to show the strikes have also circulated, with explosions reported in the vicinity of al-Nairab airport in …
Read More »Western powers are using aid as a cover to keep a terrorist-ruled Syrian region afloat…just because it’s anti-Assad
Among the matters under discussion by US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on Wednesday was Washington’s call to keep open the last United Nations aid crossing into Syria, in an opposition-held northwest part of the country at Bab al-Hawa on the Turkish border. It is …
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