The Revolutionary Forces of Syria (RFS) media office, a major Syrian opposition media outfit and frequent source of information for Western media, is funded by the British government and is managed by Westerners operating out of Turkey, according to emails provided to AlterNet by a Middle East reporter RFS tried to recruit.

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Es war ein Schlag gegen die Menschheit – und gegen die menschliche Kultur: Im August 2015 enthaupteten Terroristen des Islamischen Staates den früheren Chef-Archäologen der Oasenstadt Palmyra. Die Dschihadisten sprengten den rund 2000 Jahre alten Baaltempel. Ein UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe, zerstört.

Palmyra, known in Arabic as Tadmur, was a blossoming oasis city at the crossroads of trading routes in the Syrian Desert. The peak of its flourishing fell on the 1st century BC and the first three centuries AD. Location between Damascus and the Euphrates assured its importance in terms of commercial, military and religious influence.

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Wie der Sprecher des UN-Hochkommissariats für Menschenrechte, Rupert Colville, am Freitag in Genf sagte, könnten Bewohner der Rebellengebiete diese nicht verlassen, weil sie von „bewaffneten Gruppen der Opposition“ festgehalten würden.

Julian Reichelt hatte Lawrow einen Kriegsverbrecher genannt und Außenminister Steinmeier aufgefordert, die Gespräche mit ihm einzustellen.

Washington hat es syrischen Rebellen vereinfacht, auf Kriegsgüter aus den USA zurückzugreifen. Diese Woche hob US-Präsident Barack Obama Teile des Waffenembargos auf. In der Vergangenheit tauchten bereits US-Waffen in den Händen von dschihadistischen Terroristen auf

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Specialists used Leyer-3 EW complex in order to disrupt navigational systems of unmanned aerial vehicles of the simulated enemy at the distance of more than 100 kilometers away from the location of the EW unit.

One of the promises offered to the militants that surrendered today is the consideration of amnesty, which will absolve them from any crime that does not involve killing or kidnapping civilians in Aleppo.

Most of the rebel militants were reportedly from the Fatah Halab coalition, which includes groups like Harakat Nouriddeen Al-Zinki and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

Darüber hinaus trainieren US Special Forces die Soldaten der syrischen Opposition und beratien diese aktiv bezüglich strategischer Fragen. Eine genaue Auflistung der rebellischen Gruppen, welche von den USA aktiv gefördert werden, ist nicht bekannt. In der Vergangenheit wurden häufiger US-Waffen von Terrorgruppen beschlagnahmt.

Politik der verbrannten Erde vor seinem Ausscheiden aus dem Weißen Haus? Der amtierende US-Präsident Barack Obama hat wenige Wochen vor dem Ende seiner Amtszeit das Verbot für Waffenlieferungen an US-Verbündete in Syrien aufgehoben.

Syrian Army helicopters dropped leaflets on parts of eastern Aleppo on Sunday warning anti-government fighters to surrender while they still had the chance. Hundreds of jihadists have already laid down their weapons and surrendered while a hardline corps of deadenders continue to fend off the rapidly advancing army.

The situation is looking increasingly hopeless for the ragtag group of insurgents that have lost more than half the territory they held in just the last week. Every attempt they’ve made to break through Syrian Army lines has been repelled leaving them to defend a few shrinking districts where they will either surrender or die.

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Willy Wimmer im Gespräch über die aktuelle Situation in Syrien und die Äußerung Mogherinis beim Ministerratstreffen der Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit (OSZE) in Hamburg. Sie hatte dort behauptet, die EU sei die einzige Partei, die in Syrien humanitäre Hilfe geleistet hätte. Diese Aussage bewertet Wimmer als „aberwitzig“.

SOT, Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister (Russian): „Definitely, after this humanitarian ceasefire, [the shelling of Aleppo] will continue until the militants leave eastern Aleppo. It is clear to everyone, it is clear to our US partners. (…) On Monday it became clear that we would have the meeting and reconcile the agreement with US partners, and on Monday we were supposed to vote on the UN resolution on Eastern Aleppo. In this resolution, there was not a single word about a withdrawal of militants, it stated only about the ten-day ceasefire, as this ten-day break was obviously planned for the militants to take a breath and to get reinforcements. We proposed not to vote on this resolution in Security Council, as there is Russian-US agreement which conceptually differs from the current resolution. US representative [Samantha Power] claimed that she was not informed about it and she didn‘t see any sense in Russian-US contacts. When I asked John Kerry [US Secretary of State], he said: „yes, maybe, I hear about it for the first time, but I am not in charge of micro management in UN Security Council“. It is a little bit strange to term the highest international department on peacemaking and security as micro management.“

Der russische Außenminister Sergej Lawrow gibt am Rande des OSZE-Gipfels in Hamburg eine Pressekonferenz.

Alexander S. Neu, Obmann der Linksfraktion im Verteidigungsausschuss, forderte am Donnerstag die Bundesregierung auf…

In other words five years into the Syrian Civil War, the US is a former or present friend and enemy of every single side in that complex war. A better argument for the immediate and permanent US cessation of its sadistic enterprise in Syria could hardly be imagined.

There is perhaps some tasty irony in Russians now using the west’s own inflated figures against it but a lie is still a lie. This is disinformation and you shouldn’t fall for it.

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Kreml-Sprecher Dmitri Peskow warnte am Freitag, dass amerikanische Waffen, vor allem schultergestützte Boden-Luft-Raketen, in die Hände der Terroristen gelangen könnten. „Das wäre die schlimmste Folge dieser Entscheidung“, so Peskow. Er verwies darauf, dass tragbare Luftabwehrsysteme „für alle Staaten der Welt eine Bedrohung darstellen“.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2249a of title 10, United States Code, sections 40 and 40A of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) (22 U.S.C. 2780 and 2781), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby:

determine that the transaction, encompassing the provision of defense articles and services to foreign forces, irregular forces, groups, or individuals engaged in supporting or facilitating ongoing U.S. military operations to counter terrorism in Syria, is essential to the national security interests of the United States;

The White House on Thursday (8 December) announced a new waiver order by President Barack Obama that would lift restrictions on military support for foreign forces and others in Syria if considered „essential to the national security interests of the United States“.

The changes, which would allow „foreign forces, irregular forces, groups, or individuals“ fighting for the interests of the US to be able to access military assistance, were pursuant to the four-decades-old Arms Export Control Act.

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