It is not easy being a terrorist ally of the United States.  Start losing ground and you get wiped - as IS discovered at ar-Raqqah in 2017. I hinted yesterday that the US airstrike on Idlib on Saturday may have greater undercurrents than first appeared, and of course it was silly of me to even... Continue Reading →

TASS reports:  'US forces conduct strike against al-Qaeda near Idlib' Unbelievable as it sounds, has the US international coalition finally done something useful in Syria, or is there more yet to be revealed behind this story? This is not part of their normal area of operations. Overt operations anyway. Is this a warning in response... Continue Reading →