The SDF‘s Jeish al-Thawar engaged in fierce clashes with the Turkey-backed militants of the Euphrates Shield Operation and fended off their massive attack on the villages of Tal Maziq, Qolsarouj, Samouqeh, Sheikh Issa, Harbal and Um Hush in Northern Aleppo, killing a number of militants and destroying their military vehicles.
SDF warned on Monday that it will soon launch an offensive on the Turkish army in Northern Aleppo province to push the foreign military troops out of the highly strategic region of Al-Bab.
Daily Archives: 4. April 2017
Syrian Army General Command Categorically Denies Using Chemical Materials in Khan Shaikhoun
âThe armed terrorist groups used to accuse the Syrian Arab Army of using toxic gases against them groups or against civilians in anytime they fail to implement the targets of their sponsors and operators or when they are unable to achieve any advantages on the ground in an desperate attempt to justify their failure and to maintain the support of their supporters,â the Armyâs general command said in a statement.
Jumping to conclusions; something is not adding up in Idlib chemical weapons attack
It also raises the question why a âdoctorâ in a hospital full of victims of sarin gas has the time to tweet and make video calls. This will probably be dismissed and forgotten however.
StĂ€dtepartnerschaften: Petrogradskij Rajon – St. Petersburg – Russland
Die Petrograder Insel ist die drittgröĂte Insel im Newa-Delta von Sankt Petersburg. Zusammen mit der Haseninsel, der Apotheker-Insel und der Petrowski-Insel bildet sie den historischen Stadtteil der Petrograder Seite. Die Petrogarder Seite ist ein ursprĂŒnglicher Teil des Petrogradskij Rajon.
Die Petrogarder Seite ist Verwaltungszentrum des Petrograder Rajons und beherbergt mehrere UniversitÀten und Wissenschaftszentren sowie Museen, Kultur- und Freizeiteinrichtungen.
Susan Rice denies leaking Trump associate intel, defends unmasking requests
Rice spoke in generalities about the unmasking process, never explicitly stating Trump associates were unmasked.
„I receive those reports, as did each of those other officials, and there were occasions when I would receive a report when a U.S. person was referred to. Name not provided, just U.S. person,“ Rice said. „And sometimes in that context, in order to understand the importance of the report and understand its significance it was necessary to find out who that U.S. person was.“
Opposition wirft Assad Giftgasangriff vor
Westliche Geheimdienste halten es fĂŒr wahrscheinlich, dass Syrien nicht alle Chemiewaffen und Vorstoffe zu deren Produktion deklariert hat. Sollten sich die Berichte aus Khan Scheikhun bestĂ€tigen, wĂ€re dies der Beleg dafĂŒr.
Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel
Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.
Susan Rice isnât a âsmoking gun,â but she does have some explaining to do
Susan E. Rice reportedly sought to unmask the identities of Americans connected with President Trump‘s campaign and transition who were mentioned in foreign surveillance intelligence reports. And with that news, which was first reported Sunday by conservative social-media agitator Mike Cernovich and confirmed Monday by Bloomberg‘s Eli Lake, Washington spawned a huge game of Choose Your Own Adventure.
Former US Attorney: Susan Rice Ordered Spy Agencies To Produce âDetailed Spreadsheetsâ Involving Trump
Former President Barack Obamaâs national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce âdetailed spreadsheetsâ of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
âWhat was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,â diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel
White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The pattern of Rice‘s requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government‘s policy on „unmasking“ the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally.
Circa: White House Logs Indicate Susan Rice Consumed Unmasked Intel on Trump Associates Starting Last July
Computer logs that former President Obamaâs team left behind in the White House indicate his national security adviser Susan Rice accessed numerous intelligence reports during Obama‘s last seven months in office that contained National Security Agency intercepts involving Donald Trump and his associates, Circa has learned.
Enough with the Smokescreens: Susan Rice Caught ‚Unmasking‘ Trump Aides as Democrats, Liberal Media Do Backflips to Divert Attention
On Monday, in a revelation that Senator Rand Paul describes as a âsmoking gun,â numerous sources outed former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice as behind the âunmaskingâ of Trump associates picked up through surveillance of foreign nationals.
Susan Rice requested to unmask names of Trump transition officials, sources say
Multiple sources tell Fox News that Susan Rice, former national security adviser under then-President Barack Obama, requested to unmask the names of Trump transition officials caught up in surveillance.
The unmasked names, of people associated with Donald Trump, were then sent to all those at the National Security Council, some at the Defense Department, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and then-CIA Director John Brennan â essentially, the officials at the top, including former Rice deputy Ben Rhodes.
Israel Strongly Condemns Syria Chemical Attack, Calls on World to Intervene
Netanyahu says international community should act to remove all chemical weapons from Syria, says it highlights Israel‘s need to ‚protect itself‘; minister: Israel must lead world to end massacre.
European Union â Syria â Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region (5 April 2017)
Jean-Marc Ayrault, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, will take part in the Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region on April 5.
This conference, co-chaired by the EU, the UN, Germany, Kuwait, Norway, Qatar and the United Kingdom, follows on from the conference in London on February 4, 2016, on the international response to the consequences of the Syrian crisis, notably in order to help the Syrian population and the countries that are hosting Syrian refugees.
EU-Politikerin sieht Assad hinter Giftgas-Angriff
De Mistura hĂ€lt sich zu einer zweitĂ€gigen Syrien-Konferenz in BrĂŒssel auf. Sie soll einerseits Hilfszusagen fĂŒr die Syrien-FlĂŒchtlinge bekrĂ€ftigen und gleichzeitig UnterstĂŒtzung fĂŒr den UN-gefĂŒhrten Friedensprozess zu Syrien in Genf signalisieren.
Die EU-Aussenbeauftragte Federica Mogherini sagte, es sei «vielleicht kein Zufall», dass der Angriff just zum Auftakt der Konferenz erfolgt sei, deren Ziel es sei, «zu versuchen, Frieden zu schaffen». GemÀss «Focus» gab sie dem syrischen Diktator Assad die Schuld an dem Angriff mit derzeit mindestens 58 Toten.
EU-AuĂenminister: Kein Platz fĂŒr Assad in einem demokratischen Syrien
Bei ihrem Rats-Treffen am Montag in Luxemburg beschlossen die Minister auch ein Strategiepapier fĂŒr die kĂŒnftige Syrien-Politik der EU. Darin wird die derzeit von Assad kontrollierte Regierung fĂŒr den Schutz der syrischen Bevölkerung verantwortlich gemacht.
Deutschland und Frankreich machten vor den Beratungen klar, dass Assad am Ende abdanken muss. âEins darf nicht passieren: Dass ein Diktator, der fĂŒrchterliche Verbrechen begangen hat in der Region, auf Dauer unbehelligt bleibtâ, sagte der deutsche AuĂenminister Sigmar Gabriel.
DER TERRORKRIEG: Seine Logik
(April 2015) Subversive klandestine Gruppen verĂŒben Attentate in einem Land bzw drohen damit. Ihre Handlungen sind â laut ĂŒber praktisch alle im Land etabliert-populĂ€ren Informationssysteme (durch Staat oder Konsortien kontrollierte Medien und Presse) transportierte Aussagen dieser Gruppen â Reaktionen auf Kriegshandlungen, Kolonialismus und Ausbeutung des herrschenden Systems und dazu ausgerichtet dieses System und die Lebensweise (âway of lifeâ) der Bevölkerung zu beseitigen.
Nun beseitigen genau die staatlichen Organe und âSicherheitsâ-Apparate, die von der Gesellschaft finanziert und durch den Staat geschaffen wurden solche Attentate zu verhindern und Kriegshandlungen zu exekutieren, sukzessive oder blitzartig das eigene System (z.B. die parlamentarisch-demokratische Ordnung, ggf. die Verfassung) im eigenen Hinterland, unterwerfen die dortige Bevölkerung einer nach Möglichkeit totalen Beobachtung und Informationskontrolle (âstrategische Ăberwachung der Telekommunikationâ, âTotal Information Awarenessâ), schrĂ€nken deren Lebensweise ein (z.B. durch VerĂ€nderung von Streikrecht, Versammlungsrecht, Zugang zu Informationen bzw Internet und / oder sozialer Versorgung und kulturellen Einrichtungen, ect, pp) setzen ihre ggf. noch vorhandene Teilung der Gewalten auĂer Funktion, erlassen im Geheimen eine parallele Gesetzgebung bzw Kriegsrecht und eskalieren exponentiell im Inneren wie ĂuĂeren KriegfĂŒhrung, Ausbeutung und Kolonialismus im eigenen Einflussbereich, in Kooperation mit (internationalen) BĂŒnden, Organisationen, Pakten und / oder entsprechenden kommerziellen KrĂ€ften. Als Rechtfertigung dienen die subversiven klandestinen Gruppen.
SelbstmordattentÀter von eigenem Kopf verraten
Zu dem Zeitpunkt der Explosion trug der TĂ€ter anscheinend den Rucksack, in dem sich die Bombe befand, selbst. Infolge dessen sei von dem mutmaĂlichen SelbstmordattentĂ€ter nur noch der Kopf ĂŒbriggeblieben.
First images of ‚terror suspect‘ accused of planting nail bomb on St Petersburg metro
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#Russia attack: First photo released of #StPetersburg metro bomber #russiabombing #russiametroattack #Petersburg
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And Two Partridges II: From the Earliest Turkishâ-â, Arabic- & Kurdishâ-âLanguage Recordings in America, Febâ-âAug, 1916
This is a second part of a collection of the earliest Near Eastern recordings made in the U.S.
The first recordings in America for commercial release in the Turkish language were 20 songs made by Columbia Records in New York on February 13, 1912. Further sessions were made in October of that year. Another ten songs were recorded in September 1915. Three sessions were made in February, July, and August of 1916. Between September 1912 and Febraury 1916, 44 songs were recorded in total.
The recordings here are presented here in strict chronological order in which they were recorded. All are first takes. The performers were entirely Armenians, Assyrians, Syrian Christians, or Greeks to the best of our knowledge.
Tracks 1-8 were recorded Feb. 1916.
Tracks 9-10 were recorded July 1916.
Tracks 11-16 were recorded July-Aug 1916
Jeremy Corbyn: Theresa May sacrificing human rights on altar of arms trade
Mr Corbyn said Britain must stop selling arms to Saudi, which is leading a coalition bombing rebels in neighbouring Yemen.
âAs it stands, the British-Saudi relationship is damaging to the people of Saudi Arabia, Britain and the wider Middle East, and helping to export insecurity to the rest of the world,“ he said.
The most powerful espionage app for Android has been discovered
To put that into perspective, Pegasus is capable of extraordinary functions. These include keylogging, capturing of live audio, video, and screenshots, exfiltration of data from various applications, text messages, browser history, email, and even remote control of the spyware via SMS commands.
An even more impressive fact is that Pegasus for Android can self-destruct when compromised through a variety of checks. That includes checking whether the mobile country code associated with the SIM card is invalid or not, and if the app has been unable to connect to its server for 60 days.
Preparations underway for an extensive military operation in Oremar
Reports are coming through that the Turkish army is preparing to launch a large scale operation in the territory of TalanĂȘzĂȘbĂȘ, EĆawitĂȘ, BazĂȘ villages and Cilo hamlet in Oremar region. The operation will reportedly be joined by three battalions of soldiers that are currently kept waiting at YĂŒksekova 3rd Infantry Division Command, as well as village guards (armed locals serving the Turkish army in the battle against the Kurdish movement).
China plans to build new city nearly three times the size of New York
In a joint statement two of Chinaâs most powerful political bodies, the central committee and state council, described the new city, which will straddle three counties about 100km southwest of Beijing, as âa strategy crucial for a millennium to comeâ.
OAS Observer Mission Hails Ecuador Elections, Dismisses Fraud
Addressing the fraud claims made by the opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso and his supporters, the Mission said it found âno discrepancies between the observed records and the official dataâ from the CNE.
Videos aus US-Folterlager GuantĂĄnamo auf Kuba bleiben geheim
Das US-MilitĂ€r darf 28 VideobĂ€nder einbehalten, in denen ZwangsernĂ€hrungsmaĂnahmen an HĂ€ftlingen im US-Gefangenenlager in der GuantĂĄnamo-Bucht auf Kuba aufgezeichnet sind. Das hat am Freitag ein Bundesgericht in Washington entschieden.
#Berlin: Das @radioeins + @derfreitag GesprĂ€ch @Augstein mit @AndrejHolm im @gorkitheater am 3.4. – zum Nachhören:
30,000-year-old Ice Age civilisation discovered in Indonesia
A CAVE dig in Indonesia has unearthed a unique collection of prehistoric ornaments and artworks that date back, in some instances, to at least 30,000 years ago. The site is thought to have been used by some of the worldâs earliest cave artists.
Published today, our findings challenge the long-held view that hunter-gatherer communities in the Pleistocene (âIce Ageâ) of Southeast Asia were culturally impoverished.
23 Miners in Manganese Mine Go on Hunger Strike
Twenty-three miners in one of the world‘s biggest manganese mines, at Obrochishte in Northeastern Bulgaria, went on a hunger strike Tuesday with demands for timely payment of wages and pay rise. They refuse to come out until their demands are met. They only have water with them.
The remaining 160 miners and other mine employees are protesting at the mine‘s gates in support of their colleagues.
Geheimdienst: Kaum ein Hacker will zum BND
Als Chef von Zitis hat das Bundesinnenministerium nach SZ-Informationen einen BND-Mann abgeworben. Wilfried Karl war bisher kommissarischer Leiter der Abteilung Technische AufklÀrung bei dem Geheimdienst, er kennt die Hacking-Experten dort alle, und angeblich wollen einige wechseln.
Personalvorschlag aus der Hölle.Leitung Staatl. Hackingbehörde ZITIS durch BNDler,der fĂŒr Rechtsbruch&TĂ€uschung mitverantwortlich war.#NSAUA
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ZITIS ist BrĂŒckenkopf der Geheimdienste und Gefahr fĂŒr die BĂŒrgerrechte
âAls Obfrau im NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss konnte ich bereits einen Eindruck von Wilfried Karl gewinnen: Karl verkörpert das unkontrollierte Eigenleben des BND, das selbst die Bundesregierung angesichts des Selektorenskandals einrĂ€umen mussteâ, erklĂ€rt Martina Renner, Obfrau fĂŒr die Fraktion DIE LINKE im NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss, anlĂ€sslich von Berichten, wonach Wilfried Karl, langjĂ€hriger leitender Beamter der Technischen AufklĂ€rung im Bundesnachrichtendienst und zentraler Zeuge vor dem NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss, die Bundesbehörde ZITIS (Zentrale Stelle fĂŒr Informationstechnik im Sicherheitsbereich) leiten soll. Renner weiter:
âGanz auf der Linie der Dienste wollte er als Zeuge von nichts gewusst haben und konnte keine RechtsverstöĂe erkennen. Dass er die Hacking-Behörde leiten soll, zeigt, dass der Bundesinnenminister die privaten Daten der BĂŒrgerinnen und BĂŒrger zum Abschuss freigibt.“
Das lÀchelnde Gesicht eines autoritÀren Regimes
(18.4.2016) Einen „beeindruckenden PrĂ€sidenten“ hat Wirtschaftsminister Gabriel den Ă€gyptischen Staatschef al-Sisi genannt – und viel Empörung ausgelöst. Doch warum sagt Gabriel so etwas, wenn doch alle Fakten gegen al-Sisi sprechen? Was ist beeindruckend an al-Sisi – und was nicht?
Von Volker Schwenck, ARD-Studio Kairo