All of us are painfully aware of the current situation in Syria, especially in and around Aleppo. For over 5 years a civil war has raged, a war which has claimed at least 470,000 lives. The real number is likely much, much higher, and will probably never fully be known. Millions of internally displaced persons […]
International Solidarity: The Case for Supporting Rojava, Part 4 Flags of the Syrian government, Rojava/Federation of Northern Syria, the Syrian opposition, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Continued from Parts 1, 2, and 3) Over five years ago an uprising in Dara’a, Southern Syria, set into motion the events that would eventually culminate in the […]
ISIS in Iraq as of June 3rd, 2016 While most Americans were preoccupied with holiday celebrations in late December 2015, a battle was raging for control of the city of Ramadi, Iraq. Ramadi had been captured by Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS) in mid-May of 2015 and went relatively uncontested until late November of that year. In the […]
International Solidarity: The Case for Supporting Rojava, Part 2 Flags of the Syrian government, Rojava/Federation of Northern Syria, the Syrian opposition, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham Over five years ago an uprising in Dara’a, Southern Syria, set into motion the events that would eventually culminate in the multi-front Syrian Civil War we […]
Flags of the Syrian government, Rojava/Federation of Northern Syria, the Syrian opposition, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham Over five years ago an uprising in Dara’a, Southern Syria, set into motion the events that would eventually culminate in the multi-front Syrian Civil War we see today. Throughout the conflict one group in particular […]
Recently a series of videos was uploaded by a pro-regime media outlet that purported to show operations near Khan Tuman, south of Aleppo, Syria. The videos are mostly of anti-aircraft guns in pickup trucks (technicals) firing wildly at targets unseen, but some clips show behind-the-scenes information about the war that you cannot really see any […]
On 5 May 2016 forces from the Syrian Islamist conglomeration Jaysh al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) launched an offensive on Khan Tuman, a village 15km south of Aleppo. The battle was filmed from several angles, with some cameras being on the ground and others mounted on drones. The video featured a VBIED attack followed by a “mechanized” […]
Ukrainian soldiers near the frontline looking like ghosts from World War II In 1954, by decree of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, Crimea was officially transferred from the control of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic to that of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The move transferred over a million ethnic Russians and nearly 250-300,000 Ukrainians to […]
Flag of the Nogorno-Karabakh Republic Right now Armenia and Azerbaijan are engaged in a war over the disputed Nogorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. The problem basically started back in 1922 when Joseph Stalin made the mountainous region a part of Azerbaijan. This came on the heels of a genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed, […]
It is mid-2014 and fighting is raging all across Syria and Iraq. In northern Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS (Henceforth Daesh), is on the offensive. Throughout July and August, thousands of ethnic Kurds fled north toward Turkey, many through the border town of Kobanê. Kobanê is the seat of the […]
