How Western Meddling and a Dust Bowl Drought Ignited Syria’s Civil War

The truth behind the United States’ incessant desire to force regime change in Syria is unknown to the vast majority of Americans. The players are not who they seem to be, the facts are highly different from what traditional Western media outlets report.

Tim King
By Tim King
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DOUMA, SYRIA (Opinion) --  The reported “chemical attack” at Douma, Russia has claimed, was fake news. One U.S. news agency has now confirmed from the location of the reported attack that April 7, 2018 was an uneventful day in this Syrian city and not one single person in Douma corroborated the story of a chemical attack taking place. It is the

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Making Sense of the Conflicting Ground Reports From Syria

There are abundant conflicting reports regarding who used chemical weapons – was it pro-Assad forces backed by Russia and Iran, or was it “rebels” with backing from the U.S., the UK, France, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia?

Derrick Broze
By Derrick Broze
In this Monday, April 16, 2018 photo, people look out of their damage apartment windows just meters away from where the alleged chemical weapons attack occurred in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. The survivors blamed the attack on the Army of Islam, the powerful rebel group that controlled the town before it was taken over by Syrian government forces this week, although they did not offer evidence to back up their claims.(AP/Hassan Ammar)

In recent weeks the American public has been inundated with reports claiming the U.S., the U.K., and France have conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly used chemical weapons against his own people. Most of the American, British, and French media have lined up behind the proclamations of their respective political

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Russian Journalists Find Boy In White Helmets Chemical Attack Video

Hassan’s story is similar to that of Omran Daqneesh, known as ‘Aleppo boy,’ whose image was widely disseminated as a victim of a gas attack.

SouthFront
By SouthFront
Hassan Diab shown in Al-Jazeera’s coverage of the alleged chemical attack.

A group of Russian correspondents led by Evgeny Poddubny have found one of the children filmed by the White Helmets in their video showing people “affected” by the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria on April 7. According to Poddubny: 11-year-old Hassan Diab is fine; He suffered no injures from the “chemical attack” because there was

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Russian Foreign Minister Slams OPCW For Failure To Investigate Syrian Chemical Attack

Two months after the alleged chemical attack in Syria, OPCW inspectors show no hurry inspecting the scene of the attack or the location from which attack was allegedly launched.

Alexander Mercouris
By Alexander Mercouris
Photograph of men in Khan Sheikdoun, Syria, allegedly inside a crater where a sarin-gas bomb landed on April 4, 2017.

Two months after the alleged chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria and the US cruise missile strike on Al-Shayrat air base from where the alleged chemical attack was allegedly launched, the OPCW investigators charged with investigating the alleged chemical attack have failed to inspect either location. This has provoked an angry and

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Video Shows Syrian White Helmets Accepting Award From Al-Qaeda

A similar video was recently published showing the leader of Tahrir al-Sham (al-Qaeda in Syria), Abu-Jaber praising the White Helmets as the “hidden soldiers of the revolution.”

Brandon Turbeville
By Brandon Turbeville
Read Saleh left, the head of the civil defense units in the northern city of Idlib, and Farouk al-Habib, right, a media campaigner for the White Helmets, sit on a panel to draw attention to their work in Syria in midtown New York, September, 2014.

Only days after being labeled the “hidden soldiers of the revolution” by the leader of Tahrir al-Sham (al-Qaeda in Syria), Abu Jaber, the White Helmets have now been exposed as having accepted an award from the terrorist group in Idlib after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organized a ceremony in their honor. Indeed, a video has been published that is

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Syrian Government Formally Requests UN Investigation Into Chemical Attack

The moves comes as both Israel and the United States are claiming Syria still possess chemical weapons.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Close up photograph of the crater that has been shown in numerous mainstream media publications that the White House alleges is proof that the source of the nerve agent attack was the Syrian government.

Syrian President Bashar Assad says the Syrian government has formally approached the United Nations, asking it to send in the experts to investigate the April 4 suspected chemical attack. Assad said in an interview with the Russian state-owned RIA Novosti news agency on Thursday that the U.N. has not sent anyone yet and blamed Western nations

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