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'Lynchpin of resistance axis': World pays tribute to Lt. Gen. Soleimani
Jan 03, 2022 15:42Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the 'commander of hearts' who singlehandedly confronted the global hegemonic powers and valiantly spearheaded the fight against terrorists in Syria and Iraq, was a lynchpin of the resistance axis and hero for the campaigners of truth and justice around the world.
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Resistance in view of Ayatollah Khamenei
Dec 29, 2021 10:23Martyr Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was the most loved and popular Iranian commander for the last decade. He was the symbol of struggle against oppressors and support for the oppressed. His jihad aimed at a lofty goal, namely, dignity of Islam and saving the oppressed from the yoke of oppressors.
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Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly airstrikes
Dec 23, 2021 10:27Shortly before 3 a.m. local time on July 19, 2016, American Special Operations forces bombed what they believed were three Daesh “staging areas” on the outskirts of Tokhar, a riverside hamlet in northern Syria. They reported 85 fighters killed. In fact, they hit houses far from the front line, where Syrian farmers, their families and other local people sought nighttime sanctuary from bombing and gunfire. More than 120 Syrian civilians and villagers were killed in the bombing.
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Pentagon blasted for 'unacceptable failure' to reckon with civilian casualties
Dec 16, 2021 21:44Days after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a new investigation into a clandestine airstrike that killed scores of Syrian noncombatants whose deaths were subsequently covered up, 24 advocacy groups on Wednesday published an open letter calling on the Pentagon to "reckon with U.S.-caused civilian casualties and commit to urgent reforms."
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Biden to Pentagon: Keep the war machine running
Dec 08, 2021 10:36The Biden administration released its first Global Posture Review, with the continuation of a Cold War stance toward China and Russia.
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Pentagon chief orders new inquiry into U.S. airstrike that killed dozens in Syria
Dec 02, 2021 09:59Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Monday (Nov. 29) ordered a new high-level investigation into a U.S. airstrike in Syria in 2019 that killed dozens of women and children, the Pentagon said.
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Crimes without punishment – ever
Dec 01, 2021 10:42An estimated 300 children under five dying every day in Yemen from malnutrition, Palestinians shot dead in their occupied country every day, Lebanon and Syria slowly strangled by US sanctions, and the revelation of yet another massacre by the US, in Syria, where “about” 70 women and children were killed at Baghuz by bombs dropped one after the other to make sure that no-one escaped.
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Pentagon suppressed whistleblowers who exposed massacres in Syria
Nov 27, 2021 09:20Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale is in a communications management unit (CMU) at a medium-security federal prison in Marion, Illinois. He is closely monitored by the FBI and Bureau of Prisons officials so they can prevent him from further commenting on the bloodshed caused by U.S. drone strikes.
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Syria's My Lai? US massacred 70 civilians and covered it up
Nov 20, 2021 07:29After killing dozens of Syrian civilians in a 2019 bombing, the US military exonerated itself and concealed evidence. It's the latest scandal for a shadowy US war in Syria that has evaded oversight.
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US drone strikes’ errors and the cost in human life
Oct 25, 2021 15:55From the perspective of international humanitarian law (The Hague and Geneva Conventions), it is clear that drones are indiscriminate weapons and therefore illegal because they contravene the two core rules of IHL – the distinction between military and civilian targets and the principle of proportionality.