ISIS Remnants Just Ambushed and Killed American Troops in Syria

A year after the Assad regime finally collapsed Syria is still a mess. The new government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa (his ISIS name being Abu Mohammad al-Julani) is trying to get its act together, but pockets of chaos remain, especially where these Islamist holdouts like ISIS are lurking, for some reason. And unfortunately, that instability just claimed American lives.

[Al-Sharaa became President of Syria in January 2025 after a period leading to the rebel offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024.]

Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush in the central Syrian town of Palmyra over the weekend, with three others wounded. The Pentagon confirmed it, and it's a grim reminder that our counter-terrorism mission there isn't over yet, and al Sharaa is a terrorist who cannot be trusted.

"Today in Palmyra, Syria, two United States Army soldiers and one civilian U.S. interpreter were killed, and three were wounded," Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X. "The attack occurred as the soldiers were conducting a key leader engagement. Their mission was in support of ongoing counter-ISIS/counter-terrorism operations in the region," he added, noting that "The soldiers’ names, as well as identifying information about their units, are being withheld until 24 hours after the next of kin notification."

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth praised the response and sent a clear message to any jihadist scum thinking about targeting Americans. "The savage who perpetrated this attack was killed by partner forces."

"Let it be known, if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you," Hegseth also posted on X.

The attack occurred in an area where Sharaa's government doesn't have full control, and early signs point to ISIS as the culprits, what a shocker--these rats never go away. The Pentagon is investigating, and the wounded were sent via MEDEVAC to the al-Tanf base near the Iraq-Jordan border.

This comes as U.S. forces are drawing down to about 1,500 troops as of mid-year, with plans to drop to a few hundred by year's end. We've closed or handed over some of our eight bases that were keeping tabs on ISIS since we went in back in 2014 to stop their caliphate nonsense.

Meanwhile, "The United States, CIA and military forces are reportedly deeply involved in securing and stabilizing the situation in Syria," as Dan Diker from the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs told Fox News Digital.

And just this week, Syrians were celebrating in Damascus streets marking the one-year anniversary of Assad's ouster—that lightning rebel offensive that ended half a century of his family's brutal rule. It's a new chapter, but as this attack shows, the threats aren't gone. Former U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford has been warning about the challenges ahead for the new government.

Our troops are still out there doing the dirty work to keep ISIS down. This ambush is a gut punch, but Hegseth's warning is spot on: mess with Americans, and you'll regret it—briefly.

Will it? We shall see.

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U.S. Troops Smoke Senior ISIS Bigwig in Syria Raid

ATMEH, Syria — Before the sun even thought about rising Wednesday, U.S. forces swooped into northwestern Syria and sent a top-tier Islamic State honcho to meet his maker, a U.S. official spilled to Reuters.

This marks the second time since Bashar al-Assad got the boot in December that U.S. troops have stormed northern Syria. The new Islamist-led crew running the show has sworn to keep ISIS from clawing back, and they're cozy with the U.S.-led coalition still pounding the terror group.

The official, keeping it low-key and anonymous, said the raid took out a heavy-hitting ISIS member who was in the running to be the group's top dog in Syria.

"No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the raid," the official added, cool as you like. A Syrian security source and Syria's state-run Al-Ikhbariya said the target bit the dust while trying to make a break for it.

Another Syrian source dropped that the guy was Iraqi, hitched to a French woman. No word yet on what happened to her.

The Pentagon's lips were sealed, no comment for now. The op kicked off around 2 a.m. (1100 GMT), according to Syrian security folks and locals in Atmeh, Idlib province. Helicopters and drones buzzed overhead, providing cover, while local Syrian forces locked down the neighborhood. U.S. troops, though, handled the dirty work, a second security source confirmed.

Abdelqader al-Sheikh, a local who was up late with his kid, heard some racket in the yard next door. "I called out, 'Who are you?' and they started speaking to me in English, telling me to put my hands up," Sheikh told Reuters.

He said the armed crew posted up on nearby rooftops for two hours, and he caught someone close by barking Arabic with an Iraqi accent.

Back in July, the Pentagon bragged about a raid in Aleppo province that dusted a senior ISIS leader and his two grown sons, both tied to the group.

Idlib's been a rat's nest for ISIS big shots for years. U.S. forces took out ISIS head honcho Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Barisha, Idlib, back in 2019, and his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, got the same treatment in Atmeh in 2022.

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Trump meets with former ISIS leader now identifies as Syrian president after getting rid of Assad

President Trump and Syrian Islamist President cum ISIS terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, a major U.S. policy shift ahead of an expected meeting with Syria’s Islamist President Ahmed al-Sharaa. He met with the terrorist on Wednesday.

Can I get an 'allahu akbar.'

The U.S. is exploring the possibility of normalizing relations with Syria, Trump said. Hopefully, if this happens, Trump will make it conditional, specifically, recognizing Israel's statehood.

“We are currently exploring normalizing relations with Syria’s new government, as you know, beginning with my meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharaa,” he said at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council. 

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was also present and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, joined by phone. The readout said both leaders schmoozed Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria, where Sharaa became president/dictator in January after the fall of the longtime chinless dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Trump told the former terrorist leader that he had “a tremendous opportunity to do something historic in his country,” the readout said. He urged Sharaa to sign on to the Abraham Accords, a framework for Arab states to recognize Israeli sovereignty that the U.S. mediated during Trump’s first term.

He also advised Sharaa to tell foreign terrorists to leave Syria, deport Palestinian terrorists, help the U.S. prevent the resurgence of the Islamic State and assume responsibility for Islamic State detention centers in Syria’s northeast.

Sharaa, not to be trusted, affirmed his commitment to Syria’s 1974 disengagement with Israel and invited American companies to invest in Syrian oil and gas, the readout said.

We need to semi-trust Middle East leaders and verify the crap out of them.

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France's 'Christian terrorist' is not Christian

A crazed stabber in France shouted "In the name of Jesus Christ" as he went about his nefarious business of indiscriminately stabbing people and claiming to be Christian. Finally, the Left had the Christian terrorist they were looking for and the Western media went full-bore into the story.

But . . . the media's narrative got destroyed.

A Frenchman, Henri d'Anselme, heroically intervened to stop an attacker's stabbing rampage. In a recent episode of the popular French podcast, Legend, d'Anselme explained that a magistrate informed him of the attacker's true identity. The magistrate stated, "The perpetrator was not a Christian but a Muslim who had previously served in Bashar al-Assad’s army in Syria and later with the Islamic State." 

The attacker had deceitfully claimed to be a Christian in order to secure asylum in Europe but his jihadi tendencies kicked in and he couldn't help himself.

Below is a rough translation of what d’Anselme says in this video, starting at 56:41. D’Anselme began by recounting his encounter with the attacker in mid-attack:

…so he shouts “in the name of Jesus Christ,” he starts to say, “My wife, my —” I don’t really know what, finally, I don’t remember very well, and I answer, “No, no, no, not Jesus Christ, you have nothing to do with Jesus,” just, in fact, I tell him NO, I shout that. “To me, you have nothing to do with Jesus Christ, you are the devil,” I said that “you are the devil,” and that’s what I said.

That was true enough, but the next day, d’Anselme woke up to find himself in the media crosshairs. They had found their Christian terrorist at last and were anxious to get the word from someone who had been on the scene. D’Anselme recounted:

The next morning, when I was asked, “But what do you think of a Christian who shouted ‘In the name of Jesus Christ?’” I told them then, “I don’t know if he is a Christian or not, it’s almost — don’t look at — what I know is that what he did is fundamentally anti-Christian. We can’t kill children, who are innocence and purity, especially in the name of Jesus Christ, who offered himself as a sacrifice for you. See, it’s not possible, it’s against everything, it’s against the whole Bible.”

This response, of course, made no impression on the media at all. Le Monde’s headline displayed their true fake news agenda: “Annecy knife attack: Suspect Abdelmessih H. is a Christian Syrian refugee who arrived from Sweden.” 

Henri d’Anselme, however, was later given additional information that wasn’t given to the media. He continued:

"We had answers to this question since then. Yes, yes, the guy’s file is known now. I met, moreover, the magistrate who had taken care of his file. He was a former member of Bashar al-Assad’s army, a deserter, affiliated with the Islamic State, who did stupid things with the Islamic State, who found after a while that it wasn’t very funny, who therefore wanted to ask for political asylum in Europe. But he was told that to be able to have political asylum in Europe, you have to be either an Eastern Christian or homosexual, declaring as an Eastern Christian or declaring as homosexual will make the process easier for you. Therefore, he declared himself an Eastern Christian, so in fact he faked his identity in Turkey, and in fact, after that, he began a relationship with a real Christian. Suddenly he rebuilt his life with her in Sweden, but after a while the girl realized the deception. They still had a kid together and so on, but he never went to mass…."

So here we see taqiyya in full swing. Say anything, any lie, as a way to further Islam.

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Fair weather wife Asma Assad divorces Bashar Assad now that he's deposed

Tammy Wynette must be looking down from heaven at former Syrian first lady, Asma Assad, and frowning at her for not standing by her man, Bashar Assad just because he is no longer in power and can no longer kill Syrian civilians at will.

Asma, whose name sounds like a pulmonary disorder, is hoping to return to her native England now that she has filed for divorce from her chinless hubby. However, Britain's foreign affairs chief says that she is a person no grata in the UK

The former first lady of Syria is divorcing Bashar Assad, the recently deposed president of the Arab republic, according to reports by Arab and Turkish media outlets.

Asma, 49, has been living in Moscow with the no longer loving couple's three children the past month, after the anti-regime rebels made inroads against loyalist forces in northern Syria. 

Bashar joined Asma after running from Damascus as the rebels seized control of the city on December 8. They planned to use Bashar's head as a Christmas stocking stuffer, but he was smart enough to make book out of Dodge.

Born to Sunni Syrian expatriates living in London, Asma married Bashar, an Alawite Shi’ite, in 2000, shortly after he succeeded his father, Hafez Assad, as president of Syria. The Assadholes ruled over Syria for around fifty years, ruling with an iron fist.

Having retained her British citizenship, Mrs. Assad has filed for divorce and is seeking to return to the UK but alas, she is as welcome there as a case of the creeping crud.

According to a report by The Jerusalem Post, Asma submitted a request with a Russian court to allow her to take her children out of the country. As asylum-seekers, her travel, even within Russia, is limited and Moscow has reportedly frozen Assad's assets, which are estimated to be about $2 billion.

Other members of the Assad family have sought asylum and are currently under house arrest while their applications are processed.

Even if Asma gets the go-ahead to leave Moscow, it's uncertain whether the UK will let her back in. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy stated in a speech to Parliament on December 10, right after the Assad regime fell, that Asma "is not welcome here in the UK."

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed rumors on Monday that Asma had filed for divorce and also denied claims that Moscow had seized the family's assets, saying these reports "do not correspond to reality."

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Bibi Netanyahu says IDF will occupy buffer zone in Syria for the foreseeable future

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israeli forces will remain in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, and specifically on the summit of Mount Hermon, “until another arrangement is found that will ensure Israel’s security.”

Netanyahu made the comments from the mountain's summit — the highest peak in the area — which is inside Syria, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border with the Israel-held Golan Heights.

This was apparently the first time a sitting Israeli leader had set foot this far into Syria. Netanyahu said, "I had been on the summit of Mount Hermon 53 years ago as a soldier, but the summit's importance to Israel's security has only increased given recent events."

Israel seized a swath of southern Syria along the border with the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted by rebels.

Israel's capture of the buffer zone, a roughly 400-square-kilometer (155-square-mile) demilitarized area in Syrian territory, has sparked criticism, with some people accusing Israel of breaking the 1974 ceasefire agreement and maybe taking advantage of the chaos in Syria after Assad's removal to expand territory.

Netanyahu traveled to the buffer zone with Defense Minister Israel Katz, who said he had instructed the Israeli military to quickly establish a presence with fortifications, expecting a possibly long-term stay in the area.

"The summit of the Hermon is the eyes of the state of Israel to identify our enemies who are nearby and far away," Katz said.

An Israeli military official, speaking anonymously as per military protocol, confirmed there are no plans to move out the Syrians living in villages within the buffer zone.

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. following the 1973 Mideast war, with around 1,100 U.N. troops patrolling the area since.

A U.N. spokesman remarked on Tuesday that the advance of Israeli troops, no matter the duration, violates the 1974 agreement that established the buffer zone.

"That agreement needs to be respected, and occupation is occupation, whether it lasts a week, a month or a year, it remains occupation," said spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

There was no immediate response from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that overthrew Assad, or from Arab countries.

Israel still holds the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed — a move not recognized by most countries. Mount Hermon's peak is shared among the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Lebanon, and Syria. Only the United States recognizes Israel's control over the Golan Heights.

With Assad gone, more than 30 bodies of Syrians who disappeared during his rule were discovered in a mass grave on Monday in Izraa, north of Daraa. Forensic teams and rebels worked together to find these remains, with families watching, hoping to find their missing loved ones.

"But we didn't find anyone and it broke our hearts. They were burned alive here after being doused in fuel," said Mohammad Ghazaleh, who was at the site.

Some of the bodies indicated they were shot or burned, according to Moussa Al-Zouebi, head of Izraa's health directorate.

Syria's new government has set up a hotline for families to report missing people or secret detention sites.

In Damascus, Qatar reopened its embassy on Tuesday, after nearly 13 years of severed ties with Assad's government, stating its "categorical rejection of the regime's repressive policies against the Syrian people."

Most embassies in Syria closed after the civil war started in 2011. The French Embassy in Damascus raised its flag on Tuesday as a "symbolic gesture" to support the Syrian people during the transition, with no confirmed date for full reopening due to ongoing assessments of the situation. 

The Turkish Embassy in Damascus has also recently reopened.

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Collapse of Syria is creating a rift between IRGC terrorist officials

Officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are beginning to resemble the Democratic Party in the US with all the disagreements and blame being tossed around. Military officials are blaming each other for the fall of Bashar al-Assad, according to the Telegraph.

After Tehran poured billions into sustaining Bashar "The Chin" Assad's regime, members of the IRGC are now pointing fingers at each other "in angry terms" over the collapse of a key element in Khamenei’s so-called "axis of resistance." 

"The atmosphere is like something between almost punching each other, punching the walls, yelling at each other and kicking rubbish bins. They are blaming each other, and no one is taking responsibility," an anonymous Iranian official stated.

"No one ever imagined seeing Assad fleeing, as the focus for 10 years had been only on keeping him in power," the official added. "And it was not because we were in love with him, it was because we wanted to maintain proximity to Israel and Hezbollah."

Assad's regime crumbled early Sunday morning after a swift offensive by Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Syrian rebel forces, who seized most of the country's territory in just a few days, capturing four major cities within 24 hours. Assad fled Syria during the final rebel assault on Damascus, reportedly seeking asylum in Russia.

Iranian state media and officials are framing HTS's success as a strategic move by Western powers to undermine the "axis of resistance" promoted by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“Iran’s top general warned that the recent surge of terrorist activities in Syria is part of an American-Israeli scheme to weaken the Syrian government and its allies in the 'axis of resistance'," according to Iranian state media IRNA, as cited by The Jerusalem Post.

The Syrian regime's fall has notable implications for Israel, as Syria was Tehran’s primary conduit for arming Hezbollah. While Israel and Hezbollah are currently observing a short-term ceasefire, this development significantly hampers Hezbollah's capacity to rearm near Israel's northern border.

"You need someone there to send arms to [but] they are either getting killed or escaping. Now the focus is on how to move forward from this impasse," another IRGC official disclosed to the Telegraph. "For now, there are no discussions about arms, as everyone is trying to understand what is really happening and how dangerous it is for Iran."

The Telegraph also reports that within the IRGC, much of the blame for the debacle is being placed on Quds Force commander Brig. – Gen. Esmail Qaani for permitting the dispersal of Syrian military forces.

"He has done nothing to prevent Iran’s interests from crumbling," one IRGC official commented. "Allies fell one after another, and he was watching from Tehran. Even worse days might yet be coming."

The sources further revealed to the Telegraph that there are rumors suggesting that Khamenei might replace Qaani due to mounting internal pressure.

"The situation is bizarre and heated and angry discussions are taking place – the other concern is what to tell supporters in Iran," the first source shared with the Telegraph.

The same official highlighted Iran's current vulnerability, stating, "The resistance project almost no longer exists."

“You don’t need to be an expert to see that we are in our weakest and most vulnerable position in a decade, and many acknowledge that here,” the official concluded to the Telegraph

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Bashar Assad cuts and runs into exile as the other Islamists conquer Syria

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is on the run as Islamist rebels have stormed the capital city of Damascus.

One rumor has it that Assad "got out of Dodge" on an airline that made a U-turn in flight but had since disappeared from radar. Again, this is a rumor and it's early in the siege so take it with a grain of kosher salt. It is possible his plane was shot down but that is not substantiated.

Assad is best known for killing his own people to the tune of about 300,000 civilians by the use of chemical weapons, it is widely believed and had been reported by organizations such as the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Such chemicals in the approximate 300 chemical attacks include sarin and chlorine gas against his own civilian population.

So if his plane was shot down, the world has become a better place.

Syria has been tied up in a bloody, 13-year civil war by Islamist rebels who looked to overthrow the Assad dynasty. The apparent collapse of more than 50 years of Assad family rule over the Syrian Arabian Republic would be an incredible turn of events in the Middle East power.

A coalition dominated by radical Islamist factions managed to overthrow Assad's regime, which was supported by Iran. The terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), previously linked to Al-Qaeda and now part of the rebel forces, was pivotal in removing Assad from power. Assad took over the presidency in 2000 after his father, Hafez Assad, passed away.

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the head of HTS, who has a $10 million bounty placed by the U.S., is attempting to soften the image of the radical Islamism that characterized his combat against American forces in both Syria and Iraq. Al-Golani was once detained by the U.S. military in the early 2000s.

Experts on Syria have informed Fox News Digital that HTS is intent on establishing a totalitarian Islamist state. Phillip Smyth, an authority on Iranian proxy groups and Syria associated with the Atlantic Council, noted to Fox News Digital, "HTS is a group that is an outgrowth of Al-Qaeda and has connections to Turkey. Their endgame is to create a Talibanesque society with a few tweaks."

Assad's choice in 2011 to violently suppress pro-democracy activists during the Arab Spring, which also swept across Egypt and Tunisia, triggered a prolonged civil war. His strategy of using extreme force against his own people led to the deaths of more than 500,000 individuals. Recently, the UN has ceased updating the casualty figures, acknowledging the overwhelming nature of the conflict.

Anyway, it looks like there's going to be a new Islamist regime in Syria and it's anyone's guess what problems they will bring. 

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BREAKING: Syrian rebels capture the crown jewel of the country as Russia now gets involved

Six Guys and a Tank

The civil war in Syria is escalating as this is being reported. Syrian President Bashar Assad's palace has been captured by the Islamist rebels and the Russian forces have begun to hit back. This internal conflict started very quickly and just as quickly has grown significantly just within the last few hours.

The rebels are comprised of different faction: the Turkish-backed HTS, [Hay'at Taharir al-Sham] that was operating in northwestern Syria, mostly in the Idlib Governorate; the al Qaida-linked jihadis, who are also supported by Turkey; then there are the Kurdish groups who are hitting back at the Islamists and also oppose Assad; and then there's the pro-democracy Syrians; and the ISIS militants who have combined forces with HTS. In other words, Syria is an enormous clusterfrack.

Assad spoke prior to the attacks saying that his regime will defeat "terrorists and supporters" which is the height of the lacking of self-awareness considering the number of Syrians this chinless POS had killed. 

Syrian and Russian fighter jets have launched joint air strikes on the rebels as they advance through the country after seizing Aleppo, its second-largest city, along with the Presidential Palace.

This is what the left tries to make January 6th appear to be, but this rebel attack is a real insurrection, not a fake news story.

HTS led the attack taking over most of Aleppo in a shock offensive on Saturday. They claim to have also entered the city of Hama.

Meanwhile Assad is in Russia prior to the attack and is now hoping to live longer as he remains there. Not surprisingly, his family has joined him there.

Military air strikes that hit the entrance of Aleppo University Hospital have killed 12 civilians and injured 23 others, the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, has said.

The Syrian army and Russians deny attacking civilians and say they have targeted insurgent hideouts, but both Assad and Putin have been known to fib.

A vehicle on fire in Idlib following a strike. Photo: Reuters

Kurdish women and young girls have been kidnapped by the rebels and nothing is being done to stop this. The Kurds are the only "good guys" in the bunch, although they are socialists but not aggressors.

The Iraqi and Iranian Shi'a militias are mobilizing from Iraq and are heading toward Syria to oppose the rebels. The rebels are aiming to take Damascus, but this will be incredibly difficult for them to accomplish.

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu said of this incident: "We are constantly monitoring what is happening in Syria. We are determined to both protect the vital interests of Israel and preserve the achievements of the war." He knows that the outcome of this conflict will affect everyone, in spite of his lack of love for Assad's regime. 

Israel is probably not currently worried about Syria's civil war right now, but he's keeping close watch on what happens next.

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Gabbard: pro-Assad, anti-LGBT, anti-America

Believe it or not, the Democrat from Hawaii, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, has entered the 2020 presidential campaign and has about as much of a chance of getting nominated as a Haagen Dazs ice cream cone has dancing in hell. But what the heck, why not add your name to the list for the vanity of the fair in spite of the fact the media is basically ignoring her.

To Gabbard's discredit, she has become the lunch date of such suck-worthy tyrants and warlords and has raised the eyebrows of people who are aware of her behavior.

In 2017 she traveled to Armenia where she participated in a CODEL, basically a Congress-sanctioned opportunity for members to learn from a foreign people or nation in the lap of not so foreign luxury. Good or bad depends on the destination of the CODEL.

According to the Daily Wire, Gabbard's website mentions members of the "Artsakh" Parliament: 

"President Sargsyan, Prime Minister Karapetyan, distinguished members of the Ministry, representatives from Armenia's National Assembly, Americans of Armenian ancestry, members of the Artsakh Parliament…to identify areas of mutual interest and cooperation to strengthen the security, economic, and cultural relationships that bind our countries…"

Armenia is correctly known as a vassal nation of Russia, even after the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., and a close ally of Iran. Although Gabbard mentions members of the "Artsakh" Parliament, the author searched and found no nation by that name because there isn't a nation by that name.

Not a nation on the globe recognizes "Artsakh," not even Armenia. It is an Armenian occupied portion of neighboring Azerbaijan — one they have been at war over for more than twenty-five years. It seems that despite international condemnation and several U.N. resolutions, Armenia won’t leave.

Those men of whom Tulsi Gabbard speaks so highly were literally overthrown in April 2018. A mere few months after Gabbard lauded them as the too cool for school, they were gone.

Armenia now has a new leader, Nicol Pashinyan. He is nothing more than a sycophant in a long line of sycophants of the Kremlin. He is also besties with the mullahs in Tehran.

When the truth was exposed, so were these butchers, warlords, murders, thieves, and the men who kept Russia and Iran in charge of every aspect of the Armenian life and keeping the people poor and silent.

Gabbard's desire in hanging out with tyrants began in Syria. She paid a warm visit to Bashar al-Assad against a U.S. State Department advisory. The two shared lunch together.

As the Daily Wire reports:

When the war in Syria was at its height, operationally at full, the refugee crisis winding up to a humanitarian catastrophe and with American boots on the ground, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard took a jaunt to Syria and had tea and biscuits and plenty of face time with Bashar al-Assad. It was reputed that the poison gas-using tyrant and the member of the U.S. House of Representatives got along quite well and liked one another.

Rep. Gabbard still defends Assad to American reporters. Does she do this as a publicity stunt? Probably, now that she's running for the presidency in 2020.

Along with her history of attacking the LGBT community, it would make sense for the press to ask her real questions about her apparent anti-American behavior. Having served in the military does not excuse her anymore than it excused Lee Harvey Oswald who served in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Syrian chemical weapons factory head assassinated

It doesn't matter that a Syrian rebel group claimed responsibility for the assassination of the director of a government chemical weapons factory in a car bomb attack. They could have uncovered video showing a Syrian rebel rigging the bomb. The Syrian government will blame the Jews for everything bad that happens in the world.

Aziz Asber was the director of the Syrian Scientific Research Center, a center dedicated to the chemical extermination of everyone who opposes the current Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad [aka: No Chin Bashar]. Asber died near the city of Homs when explosives planted in his car detonated, pro-regime newspaper Al-Watan reported Sunday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack occurred Saturday. The SOHR is a monitoring group.

The Abu Amara Brigades rebel group claimed responsibility in a statement posted on its Telegram channel, and not one member of the group is Jewish, yet Syria still blames the Jews. The group is an affiliate of Tahrir al-Sham, which is linked with al-Qaeda.

Not nice people and not affiliated with any Jewish organizations in Israel.

Al-Watan blamed Israel for Asber's killing.

But perhaps al-Watan makes a good point. After all, an Israeli official refused to comment on the report, says Reuters. And Israel has carried out air strikes in Syria to stop weapons transfers to Lebanese terrorists Hezbollah, which supports Syria's campaign against the rebels.

Western governments say the research center was a covert chemical weapons facility and has been targeted by air strikes last year.

In April, the U.S., France and Britain struck a "research" facility in Damascus in response to a gas attack in Douma killing over 40 people.

A UN investigation held Bashar al-Assad's regime responsible for a sarin gas attack on the then-rebel bastion Khan Sheikhoun in April of last year, which killed about 100 people.

But the most horrific attack blamed on Assad, was in 2013 in which over 1,000 people died from serin gas in a rebel-held area in the suburbs of Damascus.

No Chin Assad's forces are backed by Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, so you know that they're evil.

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Assad regime kills at least 40 with poison gas, including women and children

Douma, Syria -- A poison gas attack late Saturday by the dictator and chinless scumcrumpet Bashar Assad has killed at least 40 civilians, including women and children, medics and rescuers said.

The attack was in the town of Douma, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) east of Damascus. It happened after the Syrian government resumed the offensive after the truce collapsed.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that at least 80 people overall were killed in Douma, the 40 previously mentioned died from suffocation. 

There were instances where entire families were found dead in their homes and shelters, according to opposition-linked first responders known as the White Helmets.

The Russian-backed Syrian dictatorship denied they had launched any chemical attack, Reuters reported. The government said rebels were in a state of collapse and were spreading false news.

None of the reports have been immediately confirmed.

Activists released a video showing what appeared to be dead people, some with foam at the mouth, Reuters said.

It was only several days ago that President Trump announced he was hoping to bring our troops out of Syria, but many on the right speculated that it was still too soon to consider such a move.

Something needs to be done to help the Syrians who are being killed wholesale. Obama drew the red line as Assad and Putin laughed, but now Trump must act to end these atrocities.

This is a developing situation and more will follow.


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Damascus: Holiday festivities end with a [car bomb] bang

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Now that the big Muslim holiday Eid Al-Fitr is over, it's time for jihadis to once again start blowing themselves up along with as many infidels as possible in order to achieve the gift of Paradise and 72 virgins, young boys and rivers of wine.

Sounds like a good deal if you believe that sort of rubbish.

Several car bomb explosions marked the celebration of jihad in Syria's capital of Damascus. One explosion was caused by a suicide attacker who, when surrounded by security forces, "Allahu Akbarred" himself into tiny bite-size pieces, killing eight others and wounding about a dozen more.

According to state media, security forces intercepted two other car bombs and neutralized them via controlled explosions. Footage from state TV of Tahreer Square in central Damascus show the facade of a building badly damaged and a bunch of 'totaled' cars parked in a small roundabout ('roundaboot' in Canadian).

Attacks in the heart of Damascus are rare, but this one began during the morning commute on the first day back from the Ramadan Boomathon.

The Interior Ministry said that security forces were tracking three cars heading for 'Dodge' and were able to stop two of them at checkpoints on the airport road. A third car made it into the city center where the driver blew himself up near Tahreer Square.

The Syrian Ministry of Local Administration, Hussein Mkhlouf (no relation to Barack Hussein Obama) said the security force's response was a "major success in foiling a plot" to cause mass casualties.

Tell that to the families of the dead and the wounded.

There were conflicting reports on casualties. While Syrian state propaganda TV reported 8 dead, 12 wounded, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported at least 12 killed. The Hezbollah-linked Lebanon's al-Manar TV, which is close to the Syrian government, and Diary of a Mortar, a Syrian activist group, said 19 people were killed.

Syrian President Bashar "The Chin" Assad had made a series of public appearances last week to show his confidence after 6 years of civil war. He may be in hiding at this time but it's doubtful that we'll see him diddy-bopping around Tahreer Square anytime soon.

ISIS has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack but Joe Scarborough claims Donald Trump is responsible for the violence everywhere.

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US says Syria killed thousands, burned the bodies

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Washington -- The Trump administration accused the  Syrian government of killing thousands of people and burning their bodies in a Hitlerian crematorium outside the capital.

According to our State Department, about 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya military prison, located about 45 minutes from Damascus if you make all the lights. They say the crematorium is used to destroy the evidence of all the killings.

There are pictures that have been declassified showing what is said to be a building in the complex converted into a crematorium.

When he showed the photos, top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Stu Jones, said that Syrian President Bashar "Chinless" Assad's government "has sunk to a new level of depravity" with support of Russia and Iran.

Unfortunately, it is not a new level of depravity, it's an old level.



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U.S. fires 59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles at Syrian air field

The Trump administration did a "reverse Obama" and actually set down a red line, not with words, but with Cruise missiles that targeted Shayrat's airbase, runway, aircraft, control towers, ammunition areas, hangars and fuel supply. 

The airbase is near the city of Homs.

The 59 long-range all-weather missiles weigh 3,500 pounds with booster and cost $1.59 million each which means tonight cost the taxpayer 93.81 million US dollars. Each missile is 18 feet 3 inches long (20.5 feet with booster) a 20.4 inch diameter and carries a 1,000 pound payload of high explosives.

The Cruise missile only flies 550 mph downhill--it's slow but very effective.

The missiles were fired by the USS Ross and USS Porter at 8:45 p.m. ET, just as President Trump said 'goodnight' to Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was well-timed. Xi was not told about what was about to happen but was told afterward.

The Russians were notified about the strike, as well they should, and the left will probably accuse Mr. Trump of warning them because of the President's special relationship with Putin. That's ridiculous--of course he needed to warn them.

The Pentagon is calling the U.S. attack a "proportional response," which is incredibly stupid--you attack to win, not to hit as hard as you've been hit. 

"It is in the vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons," President Trump said in a statement. "Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria, and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types."

Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said based on early indications the strike "had severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment . . . reducing the Syrian Government's ability to deliver chemical weapons."

The President said Shayrat was used as a staging point for Tuesday's chemical weapons attack on rebel-held territory. As many as 72 men, women and children were killed by what is believed to be sarin gas, a highly deadly nerve gas and a clear war crime.

"Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children," Trump said. "Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror."

There will likely be much more to follow.

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Obama Draws Line in Sand Using His Etch-a-Sketch Tactic

Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) wants President Obama to send a clear message to President Putin to keep away from the Ukraine's political crisis. This time, if Obama draws a line, he should not draw one that disappears when your hand shakes.