Syria, Russia, Iran Conduct Full-On Mass Extermination of Civilians in Eastern Ghouta 2/25/2018 9:05:58 PM Eastern Ghouta buildings destroyed by airstrikes and shelling from Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces Breitbart, Feb. 24, 2018  - Western leaders are expressing horror at the siege of Eastern Ghouta in Syria, which is amounting to mass extermination of innocent civilians, potentially including tens of thousands of innocent women and children. The siege and the mass extermination are being led by Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad and backed by Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Supreme Leader Seyed Ali Khamenei. All three of these people – al-Assad, Putin and Khamenei – are massively committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, and all three should be condemned as the worst kinds of war criminals, the worst war criminals so far this century. Hundreds of people have been killed just since Sunday from missiles, shell fire, and barrel bombs ...

McMaster to allies: Track your investments and stop funding Iran’s proxy militias 2/18/2018 5:31:59 PM Hezbollah cannons pounding militants positions on the Lebanon-Syria border. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster made an appeal to NATO members and allies at the Munich Security Conference to cut off funding that indirectly funds Hezbollah and other proxy militias that weaken Middle East nations to bolster Iranian influence. MUNICH, Defense News, Feb. 17, 2018  - National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster made an appeal to NATO members and allies at the Munich Security Conference to look hard at who they’re doing business with overseas and cut off funding that indirectly funds Hezbollah and other proxy militias that weaken Middle East nations to bolster Iranian influence. The Iranian regime continues to get support from commercial entities, affiliated with the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – “including Mahan Air, a company that lands righ...

Trump national security strategy doubles down on Iran 12/19/2017 11:23:37 AM US President Donald Trump gestures as he talks to the media on South Lawn of the White House in Washington, US, Dec. 16, 2017. BY: Jack Detsch AL-MONITOR,  December 18, 201 7-- US President Donald Trump’s inaugural  national security strategy  frames Iran as a “rogue state” and primary competitor to US interests in the Middle East. Released on Monday, the 55-page document draws from Trump’s foreign policy speeches throughout his first year in office. It notably accuses China and Russia of seeking to shape a world “antithetical to US values and interests” by displacing the United States from Asia and weakening Western institutions such as NATO and the  European Union  . The periodic document, which can sometimes serve as a predictor for White House foreign policy, also calls for the United States to foster development to make sure the Middle East is “no...

'Just about money': Iran recruits Afghans for Syria fight KABUL (AFP) - Fleeing grinding poverty and unemployment, thousands of Afghan Shi'ites have been recruited by Iran to defend Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, former fighters and rights activists say. Afghan men and boys as young as 14 are signing up to fight on the promise of money and legal residency in Shi'ite-dominated Iran, Assad's regional ally, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Since 2013 the Afghans, including undocumented migrants living in Iran, have joined the Teheran-backed Fatemiyoun division fighters in Syria, said HRW and ex-members who spoke to AFP on condition their real names were not used. "For me it was just about money," said Shams, a former fighter. The 25-year-old, a member of the Hazara ethnic group, went to Syria twice in 2016 to fight in a conflict that has now been raging for more than six years. "Whoe...