The Junior Ayatollah dead or gravely injured as succession is Iran's next crisis, expert says

Iran regime power players may eye Russia in Assad-style escape as US talks falter: expert
Expert says top commanders like Ghalibaf might head to Moscow while lower figures seek shelter in Iraq or Afghanistan

The apparent collapse of high-stakes U.S.-Iran negotiations has intensified fears that senior figures inside Tehran’s leadership could flee to Russia, seeking refuge to "continue their insurgency and undermine any new regime," an analyst warns.

The breakdown in talks comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also told CBS’ "60 Minutes" that toppling Iran’s regime could now even be a realistic outcome.

Netanyahu noted that any collapse would dismantle the "scaffolding" of Tehran's global terror proxy network, also potentially ending Hezbollah's influence in the region.

"The whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses," Netanyahu said.

President Donald Trump said U.S. military strikes on Iran were so effective they eliminated much of the regime’s anticipated leadership succession bench, raising questions about who will lead the Islamic Republic. (Mohsen Ganji/AP:Office of Supreme Leader of Iran)

"I think you can’t predict when that will happen. Is it possible? Yes. Is it guaranteed? No," he warned.

With diplomatic options perhaps exhausted and the regime's stability in question, an expert suggests the exit strategy any leadership may be eyeing might be similar to that of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who fled Syria in 2024.

"If the situation deteriorates further, some senior figures could potentially follow a path like Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle and seek refuge in Russia," Middle East expert Saeid Golkar told Fox News Digital.

While top commanders would possibly be Moscow-bound, lower-ranking figures would more likely head for Iraq or Afghanistan, Middle East expert Saeid Golkar told Fox News Digital. 

Golkar, a senior adviser at United Against Nuclear Iran, noted that flight destinations would likely depend on rank.

While top commanders like Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf might head to Moscow, lower-ranking figures would more likely seek shelter in Iraq or Afghanistan, where the IRGC maintains operational connections, he clarified.

"For the most senior figures, Russia would probably be the most likely destination, again as we saw with Bashar al-Assad," Golkar said, noting many officials have already moved wealth into "financial networks outside Iran."

The current crisis started following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier in 2026 during the onset of Operation Epic Fury.

While his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was named successor, reports continue to indicate he was severely injured in the strikes and has been absent from recent negotiations.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader of Iran and second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is "either dead or in bad condition," according to Golkar. (Hamed Jafarnejad/ISNA/WANA/Reuters)

Golkar explained that the "invisible state," or Bayt-e Rahbari, was designed to survive decapitation, while the ideological cost of fleeing for leaders would be high.

"Inside the regime’s ideological culture, leaving the country during the collapse would look like desertion," Golkar noted.

However, as military fractures deepen and succession remains uncertain, the "Assad model" of seeking Russian protection appears increasingly attractive to those at the top.

Mojtaba, however, is "either dead or in bad condition, that he cannot send any video or voice message," Golkar added.

"If he had died from his injuries, there was no clear natural successor. He was the continuation of the regime."

"Still, the system was designed for continuity during a crisis," Golkar said, adding that the goal is to "make sure the regime could survive even if formal institutions were damaged, leaders were killed, or civilian government stopped functioning."

"I would describe it as a regime designed not just to govern, but always to try and survive decapitation," Golkar added.

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Israel Katz: "What Israel did to Hezbollah, it will do to Tehran"

With a steely resolve that cuts through the fog of diplomatic nicety, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a thunderous warning to the Iranian regime on Thursday morning. Tehran, he declared, would meet the same fate as Hezbollah’s shattered remnants in Beirut.

 
"The Houthis will suffer heavy blows from Israel if they continue to fire at us," Katz proclaimed, his words a gauntlet thrown down to Yemen’s Iran-backed proxies.

Turning his gaze to the Jew hating mullahs in Tehran, he delivered a message as blunt as it was chilling: the "Iranian leadership that funds, arms, and operates the Houthi terrorist organization" can no longer hide behind its web of surrogates. "The era of proxies is over, and the axis of evil has collapsed," he stated, dismantling the myth of Iran’s untouchable reach.

Bigger gonads hath no man.

 
"You bear direct responsibility," he charged, holding Tehran accountable for its malign machinations. And then, with the clarity of a man who knows history judges the timid harshly, he vowed: "What we did to Hezbollah in Beirut, to Hamas in Gaza, to Assad in Damascus, and to the Houthis in Yemen—we will do to you in Tehran." 

This was no idle threat, but a promise etched in the rubble of Israel’s enemies.

In other words, FAFO, Iran.

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IDF conducts "targeted raids" in Syria finding ammo, missiles and equipment

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out raids in Syria over the past week, locating, confiscating and dismantling numerous weapons, the Israeli military said on Saturday. Among the cache were missiles, ammunition and other equipment the IDF said.

The “targeted raids,” under the command of the 474th “Golan” Territorial Brigade, were based on intelligence gathering and involved troops of the Paratroopers Brigade, the Armored Corps and the Yahalom special operations engineering unit.

The troops are “deployed at strategic points in Syria” and will “continue operations to eliminate any threat and strengthen the defense of the State of Israel and its citizens,” the IDF added, keeping the actual location of the raids classified.

On Monday, Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter jets struck a military site of Syria’s former Assad regime near Qardaha, which overlooks Latakia in northwestern Syria. The sorties were in response to “recent developments in the area,” the Israeli military said.

The attack targeted “a military site where weapons belonging to the previous Syrian regime were stored,” the statement added. It did not specify which developments prompted the strike but nevertheless, Israel refuses to remain passive when a potential for enemy attack looms large.

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Since the fall of the Iranian- and Russian-backed Assad regime on Dec. 8, Israel has taken up positions inside and beyond the Golan Heights buffer zone, including on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, a military strategic position. The Israeli Air Force has conducted hundreds of strikes on former Assad military assets to prevent them from falling into the hands of hostile forces.

With the fall of the 'chinless' Assad regime and the rise of the rebels significantly undermining Iran’s regional axis, Iran’s Mehr news agency announced on Wednesday the establishment of a new terrorist organization named “The Islamic Resistance in Syria.”

The organization was founded “in light of the recent developments Syria has witnessed,” according to the report.

In a statement released by the group, it said, “This step is a natural and legitimate response to confront the attempts at division and displacement that the country has endured.”

The statement was accompanied by a logo resembling those of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah, featuring a raised hand holding a rifle.

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At least 15 dead in Syrian car bombing in the city of Manbij--again

In another brutal reminder of the relentless violence plaguing Syria, a car bomb explosion in Manbij claimed at least 15 lives on Monday, marking the deadliest attack since Bashar al-Assad was kicked out of power last December.

"There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack in Manbij, located some 30 km from the Turkish border," reports detail.

The Civil Defense, known for their brave rescue efforts, identified the victims as 14 women and one man, with another 15 women wounded. These were not soldiers, but agricultural workers, caught in the middle of a war they didn't choose.

"The victims were agricultural workers, and the death toll was likely to increase," a civil defense official told Reuters.

Manbij has been a hot potato in this conflict, changing hands like a bad habit. The latest shift saw Turkish-backed groups take control from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Kurdish YPG militia, back in December. The SDF had previously liberated Manbij from the clutches of the Islamic State in 2016.

The horror didn't start here. Just days prior, on Saturday, another car bomb in Manbij killed four civilians, including children, showing that this violence isn't easing up.

"Assad was toppled from power on December 8, following a lightning offensive by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, whose leader, Abu Mohammed al-Shaara, was declared Syria’s transitional president last week," the narrative continues.
With the instability in Syria, Israel remains on high alert, particularly worried about spillover into the Golan Heights.

"For this reason, Israel seized a buffer security zone in Syria on December 8 and has said it will hold on to this area until it feels its security concerns with the new regime have been addressed," sources confirm.

The pressure on Israel to retreat has been minimal from the West, but whispers suggest this might change as the new Syrian regime tries to cozy up with Western nations.

IDF Operations in Lebanon and the West Bank

Meanwhile, over in Lebanon, the IDF has been busy dismantling Hezbollah's terror infrastructure.

"In neighboring Lebanon, IDF soldiers from the 7th and 769th Brigades located weapons storage facilities containing mortar shells, missiles, rockets, explosives, firearms, and a large amount of military equipment belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon," the military stated.

All the confiscated weaponry was taken, and the storage sites demolished, showcasing Israel's commitment to neutralizing threats under the ceasefire agreement extended until at least February 18.

In the West Bank, the IDF's operation, which kicked off on January 21, keeps rolling, with troops uncovering and dismantling 23 structures used for nefarious purposes like explosives labs and weapon caches.

"For the first time, troops are conducting operations in the West Bank – via transport by partially armored vehicles," an update from the ground reads. The Eitan vehicles, though not as tough as the Namer, represent a significant upgrade in armor for operations in this volatile region.
This isn't just about security; it's about sending a message of strength and readiness. The IDF's use of Eitan vehicles in Samaria villages marks a strategic shift, aiming to multiply their operational capabilities while ensuring they can handle the complex tasks ahead.

Stay vigilant, folks. The Middle East isn't calming down any time soon, and I'll keep you updated on every twist and turn.

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US strikes ISIS camps and scumcrumpets in Syria: guess who isn't dead

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) executed numerous airstrikes on Sunday targeting known ISIS camps and operatives in central Syria. The objective was to thwart the terrorist organization from capitalizing on the collapse of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s regime and kill as many scumcrumpet terrorists as possible.

After Assad's family had governed Syria for over half a century, Assad was compelled to flee like a coward to Russia, where he was granted asylum. [Brain Flushings had previously posted about the possibility that Assad's plane may have been shot down, but this was an unfounded rumor and has now been proven to be false.] 

Once Assad made book to Russia, a major offensive by a coalition of predominantly radical Islamist groups that captured Syria's capital city followed.

CENTCOM announced on Sunday that it had launched strikes against ISIS leaders, operatives, and encampments as part of an ongoing effort to "disrupt, degrade and defeat ISIS."

CENTCOM specifically aimed at stopping ISIS from conducting operations and to ensure the group doesn't use the current instability to rebuild its presence in central Syria, which would be a threat to the region and especially to Israel.

In this operation, CENTCOM forces targeted more than 75 sites, utilizing U.S. Air Force assets such as B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s.

CENTCOM is currently assessing the damage from these strikes and has reported no indications of civilian casualties.

Furthermore, CENTCOM stated that, in collaboration with regional allies and partners, it will persist in operations aimed at diminishing ISIS's operational capabilities during this "dynamic period in Syria."

"There should be no doubt - we will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria," General Michael Erik Kurilla said. "All organizations in Syria should know that we will hold them accountable if they partner with or support ISIS in any way."

So who is calling the shots for the US? It's obvious our alleged President and Vice President certainly are not behind our response.

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Biden officials want him to give Hamas a break and have Israel stop winning

About four hundred Hamas supporters from 40 US government departments and agencies within alleged President Biden's administration signed a letter supporting and demanding that Israel, who is winning the war with Hamas, stop winning and cease fire. 

The letter comes after Hamas, a terrorist organization, mercilessly and sadistically slaughtered 1,400 Israelis in an unprovoked sneak attack on October 7th. 

The New York Times first reported the Tuesday letter that includes State Department officials, the Justice Department, and the National Security Council (the latter being an oxymoron since Israel is our closest Middle East ally that is strategic to our national security).

Those who signed onto the letter remained anonymous due to their lack of political courage.

"We call on President Biden to urgently demand a cease-fire; and to call for de-escalation of the current conflict by securing the immediate release of the Israeli hostages and arbitrarily detained Palestinians; the restoration of water, fuel, electricity and other basic services; and the passage of adequate humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip," the anonymous letter reads, in part.

Who the hell is he to demand a cease-fire by a nation that was attacked and is now winning the war? If Israel agrees to a cease-fire, they would be agreeing to handing over a win for Hamas and anti-Semites everywhere. Their goal is to make Israel safe from those who want to destroy it and all of the Jews there and everywhere. They say it and we can believe it.

Biden along with other Western leaders have pushed back on calls for Israel to lose and for now, the White House has not responded to the anonymous letter.

However, France's President Emmanuel Macron is the only Western leader to call on Israel to implement a cease-fire, but after being pressured by people who don't want Israel's destruction, he then clarified his remarks on Monday and said that he thinks Israel has a right to defend itself.

It's obvious to anyone who supports Israel, that now is not the time to back off if the Jewish State is to prevent further terrorist incursions by anti-Semitic barbarians. 

Ask yourself, why didn't the U.S. ask Iraq to cease fire in the Ba'athist-Iraq war that saw anywhere between 109,032 to 650,726 casualties, or during the Shia insurgency in Yemen with 8,500 to 25,000 casualties, just to name a few?

The answer is because it didn't involve Israel, just like all the other wars and terrorism in the Middle East. It's only when it involves the Jews that American anti-Semites speak out on behalf of terrorists. 

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Syrian Report: Explosions at Iranian base near Aleppo

There are conflicting reports about the dramatic explosion that rocked an Iranian base near Aleppo. Hezbollah media denied the reports and claimed the explosions were detonations in the warehouse.

The reports coming out of Syria were contradictory. Initially, the media said the base was hit by an unidentified aircraft, which some attributing the attack to Israel. The next reports claimed the explosion was due to an accident at the facility.

The Iranian base is located in the Jabal Azzan region south of Aleppo--it's the largest in the country.

Hezbollah media sources denied the report: "A powerful explosion went off late Saturday in an area of southern Aleppo province," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) group said.

SOHR's head, Rami Abdel Rahman, reported the region was known to host Iranian scum wafers deployed in Syria. They are there to support Bashal al Assad's regime and allied Afghan fighters from the Fatemiyoun Brigade.

Last week seven Iranian military personnel were killed in an air strike on a Syrian airbase. Hezbollah blamed the attack on Israel.

Jerusalem didn't confirm nor deny carrying out the raid, but said the Tiyas, (T-4) air base was being used by Iranian troops and Israel would not accept Iran's presence in Syria, knowing how dedicated Iran is to destroy the Jewish State.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Iran's use of Syria as a base of operations and said that "President Assad must understand the Middle East more than any other is Iran, and that President Assad must understand that when he allows Iran and its proxies to establish its military presence in Syria, he is endangering Syria and the stability of the entire region."

Israeli authorities said in February that it intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria and carried out strikes against air defenses and that Iranian targets in the country. Iran, of course, denied the downing of its drone in Israel.

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Daughter in Chief calls in missile strike

Okay, maybe she didn't actually call in the Tomahawk missile strike against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, but according to Eric Trump, his sister, Ivanka, was able to influence their father to take that action. 

Eric is "sure" that it was her influence over President Trump--he has no doubts.

Last Thursday, President Trump ordered air strikes against the Shayrat airbase where a chemical weapons attack was launched against the Syrian people that killed 87 people, over 30 of whom were children.

"Ivanka is a mother of three kids and she has influence. I'm sure she said: 'Listen, this is horrible stuff,'" Eric told The Telegraph. 

"My father will act in times like that. And, by the way, he was anti doing anything with Syria two years ago. Then a leader gasses their own people, women and children. At some point America is the global leader and the world's superpower has to come forward and act and they did with a lot of support of our allies and I think that's a great thing."

Eric emphasized that while not part of the administration, he still could see that his father was "deeply affected" by the photos of injured children that resulted from the chemical attack in Idlib province. 

Somehow, in 2013, similar images of dead, dying and injured children did not affect him the same way. 

"I stay out of politics and I stay our of the administration but you can tell he was deeply affected by those images of the children," Eric said.

What may have changed for Donald Trump was Ivanka's input. She now has taken on an official, unpaid role as Assistant to the President. Liberals will cry nepotism, but they were fine with Bobby Kennedy being made U.S. Attorney General by JFK so screw their hypocrisy.

"There isn't a single decent person in the world who saw those images and saw those kids being sprayed down by hoses to keep their skin from burning, who wasn't deeply affected by what happened over there," Eric said.

"It was horrible. These guys are savages and I'm glad he responded the way he responded."

The UK's Sunday Times reported that when Ivanka saw the photos on TV, she was "genuinely shaken," and tweeted out a response. and softly influenced him to take immediate action. 

Afterward, she praised her father on Twitter. "The times we are living in call for difficult decisions. Proud of my father for refusing to accept these horrendous crimes against humanity."

The decision to respond to Assad's barbarism was the right one. But what should give us concern is a president acting on emotion from photos he saw, or on the advice of his daughter acting on emotion from photos she saw. When you act on your emotions, your judgment loses some of its perspective, and while it's understandable in this case, a president needs to put emotion aside and act on reason, analysis and reality.

But when all is said and done, Trump isn't afraid to make strong decisions and has the guts to lead, because he knows that 'leading from behind' is not leading at all. 

It looks like even China's Xi is taking that seriously as they now say they will help us deal with North Korea.

We shall see.

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Susan "Four Pinocchio" Rice

Susan Rice does not have a close relationship with Truth. She thinks Truth is a fickle friend who changes opinions as often as Hillary Clinton comes up with a new excuse for losing a presidential election to a TV personality. 

Just a few months ago Rice claimed Bashar al-Assad (the 'ad' is silent) regime "voluntarily and verifiably" gave up its stockpile of chemical weapons. On Monday, The Washington Post fact-checker gave Rice "four pinocchios"--the absolutely worst rating on the truth scale, or best rating on the lying scale, depending how you see the glass.

"The reality is that there were continued chemical-weapons attacks by Syria," the left-leaning tabloid wrote.

Another so-called fact-checking website, PolitiFact, also retracted its "mostly true" rating they assigned to a 2014 claim from then-Secretary of State John "Hair-plugs" Kerry that "100 percent" of those weapons were removed from Syria.

But that was back in 2014 when truth didn't matter as much in the Obama administration.

Rice's claim, on the other hand, was more recent and under a new administration where truth matters a little more, depending on who's doing the talking. She told NPR that the Obama administration was able to "find a solution" on Syria that didn't require the use of force when Obama's 'red line' was crossed--Obama dealt with it using diplomacy.

But diplomacy worked no better than Obamacare. Both were miserable failures, as was both terms of his presidency.

"We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile," Rice claimed falsely.

Unfortunately, Assad was able to scrounge up enough sarin nerve gas to kill dozens of his own people, which prompted President Trump to smack him down with 59 Cruise Tomahawk missiles at the airfield from where the gas was flown.

The Washington Post wrote "the Obama administration had a tendency to oversell what was accomplished, perhaps because Obama received so much criticism for not following through on an attack if Syria crossed what Obama had called 'a red line.'"

"The reality is that there were continued chemical-weapons attacks by Syria--and that U.S. and international officials had good evidence that Syria had not been completely forthcoming in its declaration and possibly retained sarin and VX nerve agent," the Post wrote.

In other words, Rice and Kerry lied to make Obama sound as if he had 'a pair' leading from the front.

Using Rice's words, the Post column ruled: "She did not explain that Syria's declaration was believed to be incomplete and thus was not fully verified--and that the Syrian government still attacked citizens with chemical weapons not covered by the 2013 agreement. That tipped her wordsmithing toward a Four."



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Hillary wants to do what Trump did

The Woods -- In her first interview since her second miserable failure to win the presidency, Hillary Clinton called for the U.S. to bomb Syrian air fields Thursday.

Hillary came out of the woods and interviewed at the Women in the World Summit in New York. She also called Russia's interference in the election she should have won, a theft more damaging than Watergate, but not as great as the theft of the lives of four Americans in Benghazi.

Asked if she now believes that her biggest failure was not taking a tougher stand against Syria as secretary of state under President Obama, she said she favored more aggressive action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"I think we should have been more willing to confront Assad," she said to Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, a far left so-called newspaper.

"I really believe we should have and still should take out his air fields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them."

Then later that day, President Trump did exactly that--he bombed the Shayrat airfield near Homs, stealing Hillary's thunder. 

The former presidential election two-time loser reminded Kristof that she had advocated for a no-fly zone in Syria after leaving government. It was something weak-kneed Obama feared to do and admittedly suffered a severe case of "the willies" when he learned that about our Cruise Tomahawk missile barrage on a Syrian airfield.

Even many Democrats liked Trump's ploy and Fareed Zakaria said on CNN that he believed the surgical attack was Trump's transition into becoming our president. (That's what happens when you're Zakaria and you have your head stuck up in your nether regions because you needed a quiet place to cry after the 2016 presidential election.)

Clinton's lies came two days after the poison gas attack that killed no less than 70 men, women and children in Syria. 

It was the photos of the "beautiful little babies" that seemed to be the catalyst, this time, that got President Trump to respond to Assad's barbarity. Assad's 2013 poison gas attack that killed men, women and children didn't have the same effect, but Trump wasn't president then and he may have gained a new perspective on the death of babies. 

It certainly didn't get Obama to do anything about it either.

After the Assad attack on Thursday, Mr. Trump said that "something should happen" with Assad as military options were being considered.

When Hillary was asked more specifically about Russian interference in the election she lost again, she called for a bipartisan investigation.

"I don't want any Republican candidate to be subjected to what I was subjected to," she lied. "I don't want anybody running campaigns to have their communication stolen." Hillary's password is alleged to have been Kill.Bill123.

"It was a more effective theft even than Watergate," the policy-less former candidate told Kristof in front of an audience of 3,000 low-information liberals at New York's Lincoln Center.

"We aren't going to let somebody sitting in the Kremlin, with bots and trolls, try to mix up our election. We've got to end that and we have to make sure that is a bipartisan, American commitment."

Had they only used a cloth on her hard drive after each use, the Russians would've never had the goods on the Democrats.

Clinton attributed her loss this time to both WikiLeaks and FBI Director James Comey's sending a letter to Congress just days before the election saying he was reinstating an investigation into her emails. In other words, losing the election had nothing to do with her and her failure to offer a coherent policy and campaign in states she thought she didn't need to worry about. (You should've heard her scream at her 'nightmare team' when she learned she lost.)

When asked if it was bittersweet to see the Trump administration screw up in the early days, she declined to agree, but her smirk gave it away.

"I don't take any pleasure in seeing the kind of chaotic functioning," she lied.

Hillary said she has no intention of running for another public office and the American public has no intention of electing her to one. She is writing a book, she says, that partially lies about what derailed her attempt to become America's "FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAAAAA!"

"For people who are interested in this, the nearly 66 million people who voted for me, I want to give as clear and as credible an explanation as I can." [Translation: "For liberals who will believe anything I say, I want to shovel them just enough horse plop that they'll nominate Chelsea in 2020 and beat Trump.")


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Israel warns Syria after exchanging fire

Jerusalem -- Israel has made it clear to Syria that they better not fire at its jets when they carry out missions over its territory aimed at stopping the flow of weapons bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Several days after Syria fired missiles at Israeli fighter jets that had carried out airstrikes against a weapons convoy, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that if Syria does it again, "we will also destroy those defense systems without hesitation."

Those words by Lieberman probably angered anti Semites all over the Middle East and on American college campuses.

Iranian-supported Hezbollah is fighting alongside President Bashar Chinless Assad's forces in Syria's civil war. And Hezbollah is sworn on a stack of Koran's to Israel's destruction and have fired thousands of rockets into Israel in 2006.

Israel is surrounded by Islamic countries who never read the Old Testament and believe the Jews have no right to that land, in spite of history and the fact that they won the 1967 war and deserve the spoils. In fact, according to Islamists everywhere, the Jews have no right to exist.


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Russia-Turkey talk turkey about a cease-fire in Syria

Beirut -- Russia and Turkey are talking about a broader cease-fire in Syria after they brokered a deal that allowed rebel-held eastern Aleppo to peacefully evacuate the town. However, there are a number of rebel groups that say they won't agree to any deal until they get more details.

Previous cease-fire attempts in Syria have failed, much like the Democrats this election go-around. The recent cuddling between Russia and Turkey however, may be a game changer--but it won't be easy.

Turkey, Russia and Iranian foreign ministers met in Moscow last week for talks on Syria, ironically, without any Syrians involved in the talks. The reason they gave for the absence of those being directly effected was that they preferred to pursue a grand bargain among great powers with stakes in the conflict rather than a domestic settlement between the government and the opposition.

One wonders if Bashar "The Chin" Assad was upset.

An anonymous official with one faction confirmed that Russian and Turkish officials were discussing a cease-fire proposal that would encompass all of Syria. 

Russia's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that its embassy in Syria was hit by mortar fire. He blamed the attack on "extremists" who are opposed to a peaceful settlement. These people are also known as Muslim extremists and mujaheddin.

Turkey's Anadolu Agency said that Ankara and Moscow reached an agreement Wednesday and had reached an agreement. 

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that a lasting cease-fire and political solution in Syria are "close." But no details were given.

The way things look, however, Russia, Turkey and Iran are getting quite cozy and our so-called president played golf.




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Syrian rebels pull back in Aleppo after collapse

Beirut -- Syrian rebels had to retreat from their former stronghold positions in eastern Aleppo in what they termed a "terrifying" collapse Monday. They were packed in trying to hold a tiny piece of territory packed with fighters and thousands of civilians but Assad's troops pressed on in a rapid advance.

The Syrian military gained control of 99 percent of the former opposition enclave in eastern Aleppo, which signaled the beginning of the end to the rebel's four-year control over parts of the city, then the final hours of battle played out.

"The situation is very, very critical," Ibrahim al-Haj of the Syrian Civil Defense said in a Trumpesque double use of the adjective. He said he was looking for shelter for himself and his family, fearing clashes or capture by government troops.

If President Bashar "The Chin" Assad could take all of Aleppo, a city whose control has gone back and forth between both forces since 2012, that would be his biggest victory in the civil war, but it wouldn't necessarily be a totally decisive victory as huge areas of Syria are still out of his control. 

Over 250,000 people have been killed and Putin is helping grow the numbers.


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Syrian peace talks off with Russia: Putin backs out of nuke deal

Russia backed out of a joint deal with the U.S. to dispose of nuclear material and that was the last straw. We cut off negotiations with them over the Syrian civil war and what the future will hold for the embattled country is anybody's guess.

State Department spokesman John Kirby accused Russia of "intensified attacks against civilian areas" and for being responsible for a September 19th attack on a humanitarian aid convoy.

"This is not a decision that was taken lightly," Kirby said in a statement. Then he went on to explain just how hard we tried to make a case in the negotiations, but when we have people like the two Johns, Kerry and Kirby, you can expect the worst. Their total incompetence is palpable. 

"The United States spared no effort in negotiating and attempting to implement an arrangement with Russia aimed at reducing violence, providing unhindered humanitarian access and degrading terrorist organizations operating in Syria . . . Unfortunately, Russia failed to live up to its own commitments," Kirby said, obviously not taking into account that Russia is buddies with terrorists.

The U.S. is withdrawing personnel that it had sent to the area as part of a joint center between our two nations. 

Evidently, Putin sees that we are operating from a position of weakness and by recognizing that, we have just learned that they have deployed an anti-missile system to Syria. It's their way of flipping us the bird as they continue to support weak-chin Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

The new missile system could counter any of our cruise missile attacks in Syria.


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U.S. 'certain' airstrike mistakenly hit Assad's forces

The U.S. had to halt an air raid against ISIS in eastern Syria on Saturday after discovering it blew away a Syrian military unit by mistake, a Central Command (CENTCOM) official said.

The official said that our military was "certain" about the outcome of the strike as we had been watching these forces "for a few days" thinking they were the Islamic State.

Syria and Russia said the U.S.-led coalition hit the Syrian base in Deir el-Zour that was surrounded, at the time, with ISIS jihadists, which allowed them to advance. At no time in the 5 years of Syrian civil war have we ever intentionally struck Bashar "the Chin" Assad's forces until now.

CENTCOM officials said the target appeared comprised of "irregular forces" and that many fighter aircraft struck six military "troop carrier" vehicles and one tank "out in the open." The U.S. informed our Russian counterparts prior to the strike but "did not share specifics" of the target, only the airspace we were flying in and general area.

Russia reported that Syria told them 62 of its soldiers were killed. 

CENTCOM said that the U.S. was calling Russia through diplomatic channels in a statement that read: "the airstrike was halted immediately when coalition officials were informed by Russian officials that it was possible the personnel and vehicles targeted were part of the Syrian military."

Oops.

The statement added that "coalition forces would not intentionally strike a known Syrian military unit."

Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said that another 100 Syrian military were wounded in the airstrike which was flown by two F-16s and two A-10s.

Konashenkov said that ISIS militants surrounding the air base launched an attack after the strike.

Konashenkov added that if the coalition attack was a screwup, it was due to the "stubborn reluctance by the American side to coordinate its action against terrorist groups in Syria and Russia." 

The Syrian military said the airstrikes allowed ISIS to advance on a hill overlooking the base and called the strike a "serious and blatant attack on Syria and its military," and "firm proof of the U.S. support of Daesh and other terrorist groups." 

Daesh is Arabic for Islamic State. It's a term Obama and Kerry sometimes use to show off their enormous knowledge of Islam.

Assad "The Chin" believes all who oppose him are "terrorists" and has accused us for years of backing rebel extremists. If he believes that we support ISIS, he probably got that belief by observing the loose-wrist efforts of our commander-in-chief at destroying them and allowing others to go free from Gitmo.

The cease-fire began Monday and has been mostly upheld, although there have been a few reports of violations. But aid convoys haven't been able to enter rebel-held areas of Aleppo, a Gary Johnson future destination.

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the U.S. commitment to the cease-fire, and implied that Obama wasn't ready to break with "terrorist elements" fighting The Chin's forces. He said we failed to rein in the rebels and believed Donald Trump would do a better job of getting things under control.

Russia said the U.S. has failed to rein in the rebels and Putin asked why the U.S. insisted on not releasing a written copy of the agreement--officials released some details in press conferences but had not provided a written document.

Since the civil war began, more than 300,000 people were killed and half the country's population has been displaced and sent to countries in the West where they have set up house no where near the leaders of the countries that have taken them in.



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U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels Beheads Child

U.S.-backed Syrian rebel mujahideen group Nour-al-din el Zanki beheaded a child (believed to be around 12) as they screamed "Allahu Akbar." The 'tough guys' made a video to show their barbarism. The child's name was Abdullah Issa.

The video shows the fighters telling the camera, "These are the prisoners from Liwa al-Quds (Jerusalem Brigade--a Palestinian militia group). He [Assad] cannot stoop any lower--he sent us children today. Are you sending us children?"

We fund these scumbags because they fight against the Assad regime, but do we actually know what the hell we're doing under this administration?

Nour-al-din el-Zanki accused the boy of being a spy, and one rebel said of the child, "These are the dogs of Assad. These are you people, Bashar."

Another rebel says in the video, "We shall not leave anyone in Handarat," referring to the Palestinian refugee camp where the regime and rebel forces is currently fighting.

The shouts of "Takbir" and "Allahu Akbar" ring out as one 'brave' fighter saws through the child's neck, then holds the head aloft as he shouts "Allahu Akbar!" 

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights official Rami Abdel Rahman told France Press that "The child is no more than 13-years-old. He was arrested today in the area of Handarat, but the slaughtering happened in el-Mashab neighborhood.

Reports on Issa's age vary from 11 and 13. Some believe he was an 11-year-old Palestinian child from Handarat, while others claim that he was a Syrian from Homs.

"This is one of the most terrible execution acts that I have seen since the revolution began in Syria," Rahman said.

Nour-al-din el-Zanki condemned the beheading claiming that it was performed by those who do not represent the group. "All of the people who carried out this violation have been arrested and brought before a disciplinary tribunal," a group statement read.

"The movement of Nour-al-din el Zanki condemns the inhuman violation, since they believe in the principles and the targets of the revolution and the principle of human rights and the international agreements and the sharia. This violation doesn't reflect us and a one-time mistake does not reflect the general policy of the movement," the statement read.

The group's statement also blamed international actors stating that the group "holds the international community full responsible for keeping silent about the crimes regime forces are perpetuating which represent the lowest level of barbaric crimes committed under the ears and the eyes of the world and are represented by a killing machine which slaughters thousands of citizens."

Liwa al-Quds denied any connection with Issa, but this group, and other Islamic groups, have been known to use taqiyya to get what they want. They should be trusted like you would trust Hillary Clinton with your computer files.

Let's see what happens to these barbarians. I suspect they'll get the James Comey treatment.



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Is Bashar "The Chin" Assad in bed with ISIS?

Sky News reports that Bashar "The Chin" al-Assad and ISIS may have struck a deal with each other regarding the battleground. That is, Assad and ISIS may have agreed to certain unspoken rules of where they will engage.

One such deal was over the city of Palmyra.

The files obtained by Sky News show that the militant groups has been training foreign jihadists much longer than security services originally suspected and that a network of sleeper cells is spread across Europe and is planning further attacks in the style of Brussels and Paris.

ISIS defectors have revealed to the news agency that Palmyra was returned to Assad's government forces by ISIS as part of cooperative agreements from years ago, and letters obtained by Sky News, along with over 22,000 files seem to confirm this.

The new letters show that there is an agreement with the Assad regime to withdraw ISIS weapons from Palmyra. There is also a deal between the two groups to trade oil and fertilizer, and that Assad told ISIS about impending attacks and had the merry band of scumcrumpets evacuated before the Syrian army attacked.

It seems fairly obvious that there is collusion between ISIS and Assad. 

Now all we need to know is if there is any collusion between Saudi Arabia and CIA Director John Brennan over the 9/11 secret documents regarding Saudi Arabia's possible involvement.




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Kerry: all hair, no head

War hero, by his own admission, and current Secretary of State for not much longer, John Kerry has pleaded with the Syrian government forces to please stop bombing the city of Aleppo moving forward.

"At the end of the day, there's gonna be lots of dead civilians if you keep bombing indiscriminately, and that just is not good. It isn't good. It's bad. So please stop," Kerry begged in the short, powerful sentences he is known to lob at our enemies.

The bombing has been devastating this week, with heavy civilian casualties that included a Doctors Without Borders hospital that killed scores of people one of whom was one of the last pediatricians left in Syria.

Russia has sat on its collective hands, doing nothing to pressure chinless Assad's bombing campaign.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said the increased fighting has caused a humanitarian disaster for millions of people and issued a statement that four medical facilities on both sides of the city were hit by bombs. The ICRC appealed to both sides "for an immediate halt in the attacks."

Kerry is planning to have a sit-down with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura in Geneva on Sunday. He will include the foreign ministers of Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Interestingly, Aleppo was not part of the original "cessation of hostilities" agreement, so for Assad and Putin's way of thinking, "nobody said we couldn't."

Kerry uselessly expressed "deep concern" about Aleppo to de Mistura and Riad Hijab, the chief negotiator for the High Negotiations Committee.  The Secretary of State made it "crystal clear" that ending the violence in Aleppo and returning to a total nationwide ceasefire, would be 'tremendous'. 

Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the presidential race, said, "I really hope the shooting will stop. I really do. It would be fantastic if those folks could shake hands like men, and end this nonsense. They've got to end it. I mean, folks, it's crazy that people are killing each other over what? A crappy country that doesn't even allow beauty contests and the women, and I love the Syrian women, wear head scarfs in that heat? All those dead folks, and I love dead folks, are a total waste. So let's not do this anymore."

Kerry calmly disagreed with Russia's claim that the airstrikes were targeting Al Nusra in Aleppo. "Oh please, who are you kidding?" he said. "You are bombing civilians. You always bomb civilians. That's no right. That's not fair. That's not the American way."

The other State Department "John," Kirby this time, using longer sentences than Kerry said, "The Assad regime continues to escalate the conflict by predominantly targeting innocent civilians and parties to the cessation of hostilities--not Nusra, as the regime falsely claims. Such attacks are direct violation of the cessation and must stop immediately."

Both Putin and Assad chuckled and said in unison: "Oh yeah? Whattaya gonna do about it?"

What happens going forward, down the road, at the end of the day, remains a mystery. Will Obama allow Aleppo to be thrown under the bus is anybody's guess.



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Kerry on Syria: "They're not suppose to do that"

The cease-fire was just about to be brokered between the United States and Russia and go into effect at midnight local time in Syria when lo and behold, Russian warplanes struck without warning.

The strikes came at a time when 97 Syrian opposition and rebel groups agreed to abide with the cease-fire. They even formed a committee to follow-up on it, but evidently, Putin had other plans. 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based safely away in Britain, believe the warplanes to be Russian. The targets were civilian areas east of Damascus in the suburb known as Douma.

At least eight people were killed in the strikes including three women and four children.

Russia had no comment but they could not contain a sardonic sneer, knowing that he and his ilk have nothing to fear from Obama and his ilk.

Dozens or airstrikes were also reported in Aleppo and last Thursday, President Obama said that he hoped the cease-fire in Syria will lead to an end to the civil war and allow us all to join hands, maybe hug, and go after the Islamic State, a group of miscreants and misunderstanders of Islam who are giving the religion of peace a bad name.

Obama put the responsibility on Russia and its allies, especially the chinless Assad government, to do the right thing. "The world is watching," Obama warned, causing Vladimir Putin to laugh wholeheartedly. Obama then added, "And I know who your mother is."

Secretary of State John-Empty-Suit-Kerry said of the Russian airstrikes: "They're not suppose to do that. And I know, that if they knew, that the world is watching, they wouldn't do that."

Kerry tends to overuse that word, "that," almost as much as he overuses his stay as Secretary of State.




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Medvedev warns of "grave consequences" if we don't fall in line

According to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (he's the guy who Obama told to be patient because in his second term he will be "more flexible") the world is fighting a new Cold War. He said that if the West fails to cooperate with Russia's involvement in Syria and elsewhere, there will be grave consequences.

"We have slid, in essence, into times of a new Cold War," he said Saturday in Germany as he addressed senior international officials at a security conference. He referenced the Syria fighting as a situation where Russian-Western cooperation is vital, particularly on military issues and that cooperation was key.

"Military officials must be in constant contact. They should be calling each other 10 times a day," Medvedev said.

Russia has been helping Syrian president Bashar al-Assad militarily while we have been helping the rebels who are trying to overthrow the chinless leader. It's more of a lose-lose situation than anything else.

In the current talks, Russia and the United States are in a working group whose task is to determine what specifically needs to be done in order to effect a cease-fire in the Syrian conflict. 

In one group exercise, a Russian group member said to an American group member, "Trust me," as the American group member had to close his eyes and fall backwards, trusting that the Russian would catch him.

He didn't and the American crashed to the floor and his his head.

And that is what the Hillary reset button has accomplished.

Okay, I made the 'trust me-fall backwards' part up, but it isn't far from the truth.

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