Paris, France – After discussing recent geopolitical events with world leaders during the Paris climate talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the vast majority of leaders agree that Turkey's attack on a Russian bomber was unnecessary, as the aircraft was in no way threatening Turkey.
He went on to say that Russian authorities now have additional evidence that the aircraft was shot down with the express purpose of protecting Islamic State oil deliveries. The oil from I... (more)
In the wake of Turkey's shoot down of the Russian Su-24, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the attack a planned provocation. He went further on to suggest the US had given Turkey permission to shoot down the Jet. He explained that countries using US manufactured weapons must ask the US for permission before using them in operations. The aircraft used to shoot down the Su-24 was a US-made F-16. Indeed, there is evidence... (more)
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal's Stacy Meichtry and Joshua Robinson published an in-depth bit of reporting on the planning and operational setup of the Paris attackers, revealing a bunch of previously unknown details. The key thing, however, isn't just the total lack of anything that looks like sophisticated encryption, but the opposite. The attackers basically did nothin... (more)
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio told Fox News earlier this week if push comes to shove the United States must side with Turkey in a confrontation with Russia.
"They are a member of the NATO alliance," Rubio said, "and if we were not to come to Turkey's defense in any instance, it would undermine the NATO alliance and that is something we need to understand."
"This is a critical moment," Rubio continued. "If Russia believes they can respond and retaliat... (more)
The downing of a Russian warplane in Syria by Turkey appears to be a pre-planned provocation, the Russian Foreign Minister said. Ankara failed to communicate with Russia over the incident, he added.
“We have serious doubts that this act was unintentional. It looks very much like a preplanned provocation,” Lavrov said, citing Turkey’s failure to maintain proper communication with Russia, the abundance of footage of the incident and other evidence.
A video of Syrian rebels allegedly firing at a Russian-made helicopter on the ground has been posted on a YouTube channel associated with the FSA's 1st Coastal Brigade. The helicopter is said to have been on a search mission for the pilots of the Su-24 jet downed by Turkey in Syria.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud (aka Abu Umar Al-Baljiki) slipped past the mightiest intelligence agencies in the world despite a feature in the February, 2015 issue of the Islamic State magazine Dabiq.
Abaaoud is the key suspect in the Paris massacre last Friday that claimed the lives of nearly 130 people. He is a Belgian Moroccan and the leader of the so-called Verviers cell. Two members of the terror cell, Abuz-Zubayr al-Baljiki and Abu Khalid al-Baljiki, were killed by Belgian police on Ja... (more)
For many decades, there have been so-called "conspiracy theories" about government involvement in drug trafficking at the highest levels. Over the years, significant evidence has been revealed showing that various governments are involved in drug trafficking while at the same time fighting a "war on drugs."
The hacktivist group Anonymous, engaged in electronic warfare against Islamic State, has declared 'total war' on the terror group following the deadly attacks in France, while pledging to hunt down every single supporter of the jihadist group online.
The combat mission to root out terrorism propaganda and recruitment networks from the internet was announced via a YouTube video, where a spokesman wearing the group’s symbol – the iconic Guy Fawkes mask – promised ... (more)
“If it take 50,000 troops going in there and cleaning out Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State, do it,” said Bill Kristol. “If ISIS is going to be destroyed, America has to be in the lead… you are going to need troops on the ground.”
“Yes,” Kristol said with a condescending tone, “Americans are... (more)
President Obama still plans to accept 10,000 migrants into the U.S. despite the recent Paris attacks linked to migrants associated with ISIS.
Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told Fox News Sunday that the administration was "still planning to take in Syrian refugees" over the next year.
A Russian airliner bound for St. Petersburg crashed while flying over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all on board. With the peninsula seeing fierce fighting recently as the presence of foreign-backed terrorist organizations has grown, immediate suspicion was raised regarding a potential terror attack involving either a bomb brought on board or a missile fired from below.
As Russia carries out its investigation of the disaster, the rest of the objective world waits for answers. F... (more)
Imagine an arsonist lighting a building ablaze, then turning around, changing into a firefighter's uniform, and running back toward it, not with a fire hose but instead, rolling a drum of gasoline in front of him. Would anyone believe that his intentions are to extinguish the blaze? Or would it be obvious that the goal is to compound the fire, so that no matter how much effort is organized against it, it can never be put out – not until everything is destroyed first?
Fresh back from Kiev, Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley called Russia "aggressive" and "adversarial to the interests of the United States," claiming that having nuclear weapons and the ability to use them makes Russia the foremost threat to the US.
Russia is the only country in the world with the nuclear capability to destroy the United States, which makes it an existential threat, Milley told the audience at the Defense One summit in Washington, DC on Monday. Moscow&r... (more)
As previously warned about in June of 2015, the United States has announced that it will officially begin ground operations in Syria through the use of special forces. The Washington Post in its article, "Obama seeks to intensify operations in Syria with Special Ops troops,"would report that:
