27 mars

sputniknews.com – Terrorists Preparing Chemical Attack in Idlib – Syrian UN Envoy

Damascus has revealed that a number of foreign specialists are working on staging a chemical attack which will be extensively covered by Western media and will involve the notorious White Helmets group.
Another false flag ”incident” featuring chemical weapons in Syria may take place in Idlib province, where terrorists are operating at the instigation of several Western countries, Syria’s permanent representative at the United Nations said on March 27.

proletaren.se – Extremisterna bussas bort – snart fred i östra Ghouta

Efter veckor av hårda strider i östra Ghouta i Damaskus utkanter kommer nu en strid ström av positiva nyheter.

presstv.com – Syria forces uncover tunnels, underground hospitals used by militants in Eastern Ghouta

steigan.no – Hvite hjelmer utnytter barn for å «fabrikkere samtykke» til «humanitær» krig i Syria

26 mars

Alexander Mercouris – Jihadis leave East Ghouta as resistance collapses

Entire Jihadi enclave soon to be under Syrian government control as thousands of Jihadis withdraw to Idlib

22 mars

Thierry Meyssan – The ”moderate rebels” of Ghouta

While the forces of the Republic and the Russian forces are liberating Eastern Ghouta and 800 Syrians are finding refuge every hour in Damascus, we are publishing this study of Western-trained combatants considered as ”moderate rebels”.

voltairenet.org – Under a false flag, UK attempts three chemical attacks in the Ghouta

On 17 March 2018, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov denounced the presence of the US, British and French Special Forces in Syria; this is something that both London and Paris deny. He drove home the point, insisting: “What this presence means is that the issue is no longer a war by proxy but direct intervention in a war”.

17 mars

sputniknews.com – US Prepared Militants for Conducting Chemical Attacks, Poised to Hit Syria – MoD

”We note the evidence of preparation for possible attacks. Strike groups of naval carriers with cruise missiles are being formed in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean, in the Persian Gulf and in the Red Sea,” chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff Col. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy said.
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”Jabhat al-Nusra militants along with the White Helmets are preparing a staged chemical attack in the Alghabit and Kalbb Lusa communities situated 25 km (15 miles) to the North-West of Idlib. There are 20 chlorine containers in their possession,” said the Russian General Staff.
The General assured that such an incident would be widely broadcasted in foreign media.

sana.sy – Army advances in Ghouta towards Kafr Batna and Saqba, secures evacuation of thousands of civilians

Syrian Arab Army units intensified on Saturday their military operations in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside, inflicting heavy losses on terrorists, and at the same time continued to secure the safe corridors for the evacuation of civilians held hostage by terrorist organizations.

presstv.com – US, British, French forces directly involved in Syria war: Russia FM

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says US, British and French special forces are “directly” engaged in the war on Syria and operating on the ground in the crisis-stricken country.
“There are special forces on the ground in Syria from the US – they no longer deny it – the UK, France and a number of other countries,” Lavrov said in an interview to the Kazakh state broadcaster published on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website on Saturday.
“Thus, it’s not so much of a ‘proxy war,’ but rather a direct involvement in the war,” the Russian top diplomat said.

sputniknews.com – Russian MoD: Over 800,000 Returned Home in Aleppo After Defeat of Nusra Front

”The province of Aleppo illustrates the efficiency of the work of the Russian reconciliation center for Syria. Over 800,000 people have returned to the city of Aleppo and its suburbs, liberated from Jabhat al Nusra and its affiliated groups, since December 2016. The local authorities provide assistance with housing reconstruction. Markets, shops, schools and medical facilities are working. Agriculture is being actively restored,” the statement added.

Neil Clarke – Syria: It would all be over by now without the ‘regime-changers’

The Western intervention in Syria, in pursuance of violent regime change, has been massive.
In June 2015, the Washington Post reported: “At $1 billion, Syria-related operations account for about $1 of every $15 in the CIA’s overall budget… US officials said the CIA has trained and equipped nearly 10,000 fighters sent into Syria over the past several years — meaning that the agency is spending roughly $100,000 per year for every anti-Assad rebel who has gone through the program.”
At the same time, attempts to solve the conflict diplomatically were repeatedly sabotaged by the insistence that ‘Assad must go’ and by stepping up support for anti-government forces. Take the Kofi Annan peace plan in 2012.
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Within days of Annan’s peace plan gaining a positive response from both sides in late March, the imperial powers openly pledged, for the first time, millions of dollars for the Free Syrian Army; for military equipment, to provide salaries to its soldiers and to bribe government forces to defect. In other words, terrified that the civil war is starting to die down, they are setting about institutionalizing it,” noted my fellow Op-ed contributor Dan Glazebrook in Al-Ahram Weekly.

theduran.com – Many Americans have no clue what transpired in Syria. Here are 3 narratives explaining the conflict in Syria

As the Ghouta campaign continues to unfold, we should expect that both politicians and mainstream media will give us – in the words of philosopher and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr – “necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications” intended to shape our perceptions of events.
It goes without saying that such “emotionally potent oversimplifications” on Syria have formed the dominant paradigm through which the American public has received its information over the past seven years of war.

1 mars

Intervju med Peter Ford, fd Storbritanniens ambassadör i Syrien –
Western Media Coverage of Syria: A Big, Bright Shining Lie

”Once again the mainstream coverage of the current conflict in Eastern Ghouta, leaves much to be desired, to say the least. In this week’s show, John Wight and former UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford discuss how and why it is that the reality of what is happening on the ground in Ghouta is not being reflected in the western media narrative.”

presstv.com – Russia says militants indiscriminately target civilians in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta

Speaking in the Syrian capital Damascus, Major General Vladimir Zolotukhin told reporters that militants killed at least four civilians on Thursday, adding that the killings showed militant threats against people who wanted to leave Eastern Ghouta were real.
The Russian military says terrorists are blocking civilian evacuations from the Damascus suburb by shelling the route out of the area days after a humanitarian pause went into effect to help the residents flee the militant-held area.