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Submitted by Justin King via The Fifth Column, Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror while everyone else repeats it. The run up to overthrowing President Assad of Syria was occurring before The Fifth Column existed. I covered it when I wrote daily…
During Iraq’s long summer of 2004, one of the many prisoners who arrived at the American-run facility at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq was a young jihadist who fought under the name Abu Ahmed. Though he’d feared prison, Abu Ahmed found, to his surprise, a kind of jihadist salon, as extremist fighters locked up together…
We’re not going to mince words here: It’s really freaking hard to get the average person to care about some civil war in the Middle East. The news from that part of the world is an endless barrage of images of bombed-out buildings and broken people — it just becomes white noise after a while….
Claim: A photograph shows a young Syrian child “surrendering” to a camera after mistaking it for a gun. TRUE Example: [Collected via email, November 2015] Syrian child holding her arms up in surrender because she thought the camera was a gun? Any idea if this is true? Origins: As fear of refugees reached fever pitch…
Migrants wait to register at a refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo on Monday. (Darko Vojinovic/AP) As the Syrian refugee crisis mutated from a regional problem to a global one, security concerns have increasingly been cited as a justification for keeping borders closed and refusing to resettle migrants. This argument has gathered momentum in the…
As authorities made sense of the aftermath from Friday’s Paris attacks and the death toll count began to stabilize, reports emerged over the weekend that a gunman involved with the coordinated bombings and shootings may have entered Europe, embedded in the scores of refugees fleeing Syria. By Monday afternoon, the number of American state governors,…
Watch how the Syrian civil war became the mess it is today. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO After four-plus years of fighting, Syria’s war has killed at least 250,000 people and displaced 12 million people. And, though it started as a civil war, it’s become much more than that. It’s a proxy war that has…
An Unlikely Archivist For Armenian Aleppo: A Punk Drummer From D.C. A 2010 photo of Father Yeznig Zegchanian of Forty Martyrs Armenian Apostolic Church in Aleppo, Syria. Jason Hamacher hide caption itoggle caption Jason Hamacher A 2010 photo of Father Yeznig Zegchanian of Forty Martyrs Armenian Apostolic Church in Aleppo, Syria. Jason…
“We will never allow the establishment of a state in Syria’s north and our south,” Mr Erdogan said at the weekend. “We will continue our fight in this regard no matter what it costs.” Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan (seated) heads the National Security Council meeting Turkey has urged the creation of a buffer zone protected…
Judicial Watch has – for many years – obtained sensitive U.S. government documents through freedom of information requests and lawsuits. The government just produced documents to Judicial Watch in response to a freedom of information suit which show that the West has long supported ISIS. The documents were written by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency…