Putin In Syria

“Let us not kid ourselves, Russia is now the most influential player in the region, and that is mostly due to Obama’s doctrine….which saw the U.S. role shrink.” (Faisal Abbas on RT)

The independent Russian TV channel TV Rain has discovered a new Russian private military contractor in Syria.

A third world war has been going on since at least NATO’s bombing of Belgrade in 1999, says Ekho Moskvy editor-in-chief Aleksei Venediktov.

“In the international competition of nuclear idiotism, as before US President Donald Trump has a convincing lead,” says Russian historian Daniil Kotsyubinsky.

Moscow’s spending on Vladimir Putin’s much-ballyhooed military campaign in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is leading to enormous cutbacks in its spending on health, education and welfare for the Russian people.

Russian media has provided only one-sided coverage of the war in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Western media coverage has revealed the terrible toll on civilians from attacks by Syrian government forces backed by Russia.

Live updates and rolling analysis of US claim that Syria is preparing another chemical weapons attack

Why did so many children die in Syria in 2016? Is it a coincidence that Russia spent the year bombing hospitals there?

A Russian general has reportedly been seriously wounded in Palmyra, the first Russian military person of the rank of general to be injured in the war.

Both the leaders of Ingushetia and Chechnya have provided details on the military police battalions that have been sent from their republics to serve in Syria.