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Syria: Who is Winning the End-Game?

Despite the US president’s claim to have killed the ISIS leader and thus prove his country’s relevance to the Syrian crisis, the US ability to influence the ground realities in such a way as to shape the end-game to its own advantage are limited. The death of Baghdadi is highly unlikely to win the US a seat in the Russian-led peace processes, although this...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

A Change of Heart about War against Iran?

An unfriendly relationship between Tehran and Moscow in the past years was to the benefit of the United States because Iran was the only deterrent that prevented Russia from getting a foothold in the Middle East, which would have threatened U.S. interests in the region. However, recently the Russian Federation and...

Vladimir Platov

Trump’s Latest Middle East Gambit Shows the True Face of American Imperialism

The last week of October 2019 saw a great deal of western newspaper reporting on the United States withdrawal from Syria announced by US President Trump. That his general claim was in fact heavily qualified, not supported by his own generals, and contradicted by actual events on the ground received much less media attention. In all of the...

James ONeill

How the US is Trying to Play Turkey against Russia in Syria

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Something Stinks in Syria’s Oil Fields

Gordon Duff

US Tries to Reverse Syrian Fortunes with "Baghdadi Raid"

Tony Cartalucci

America’s New Game in Syria

Viktor Mikhin

Lebanon: The Israeli Parking Lot We Helped Make

Phil Butler

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