Tag: Syria
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Critics of the Iran Deal are Dead Wrong––All of Them!
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Jun. 22, 2026) — Many years ago, my daughter Karen saw the movie “Grease” 20 times! By the fifth time, she could recite every line, even every lyric from every song. So, I ask myself, what is both wrong and wrong-headed with all the… · seasoned foreign correspondents, · journalists worldwide, · military experts,…
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Secretary of War Announces “Operation Hawkeye Strike” in Syria
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 20, 2025) — Early Friday evening, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted on X that the United States launched an attack on the “enemies” who killed two Army National Guard soldiers and a civilian interpreter in Palmyra, Syria last weekend as they assisted in counterterrorism efforts in the area. The perpetrators…
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Trump Awards “Mexican Border Defense Medal”
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 15, 2025) — Shortly after 3:00 p.m. EST Monday, President Donald Trump commenced an address from the White House in which he commended the U.S. military for its role in protecting the nation’s borders and announced the awarding of the “Mexican Border Defense Medal.” He spoke specifically about the increased security…
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Syria: 3 Americans Killed, 3 Injured
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 13, 2025) — Shortly before 2:00 p.m. EST, President Trump posted a message of condolence for the loss of two U.S. Army soldiers and an interpreter in Syria who were killed by a suspected member of the terror group Islamic State. The attack follows a visit by the nation’s new president,…
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Christians Persecuted in Syria: A Growing Crisis
by Jerry Newcombe, New American Prophet, ©2025 (Mar. 15, 2025) — Killing Christians because they are Christians is nothing new. Sometimes the persecution is intense, sometimes not as much. Right now, many Christians are reportedly being killed in Syria, following the downfall of that nation’s long-time dictator. The Daily Mail (UK) reports: “More than 1,000 Syrians have…
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Understanding Israel’s Pager Attack on Hezbollah
by Dr. Michael Brown, New American Prophet, ©2024 (Sep. 19, 2024) — Can you imagine the level of physical and psychological trauma throughout Lebanon and parts of Syria yesterday as thousands of Hezbollah pagers exploded, leaving many Islamic militants injured, hundreds of them critically, and several of them dead? It sounded like something out of…
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“From the River to the Sea,” and Why is the UN Virtually Silent on Yemen and Other Muslim Conflicts/Suffering?
22 November 2023 Dear Editor, Where are the shouting to the heavens and mainstream media ‘breaking news’ bulletins exposing the UN’s (and the so many worldwide anti-Israel protestors’) hypocrisy for condemning tiny, Western-society democratic Israel’s (where so many indigenous-to-Israel Sabra Jews live!) completely justified determined destruction of heinously barbaric, Iranian-backed, Islamic Hamas terrorists operating against it…
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Bongino: “Rotting Bag of Oatmeal” in White House
by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 25, 2023) — In an appearance on “Fox & Friends Weekend” Saturday morning, Fox News host in his own right and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino referred to White House occupant Joe Biden as a “rotting bag of oatmeal.” Bongino made the remark while speaking about the Biden regime’s foreign…
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Deep State Hates “America-First” Policy
“THE WISHES OF THE ELECTORATE” by Jeff Crouere, ©2019 (Oct. 27, 2019) — After the longest war in the history of our country, it is time for our troops to return home. In 2001, the United States responded to the horrific terrorist attacks of 9/11 by sending our military to Afghanistan on a mission to…
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Reports: ISIS Leader Killed
IS THIS TRUMP’S “BIG SUCCESS”? by Sharon Rondeau At 7:35 a.m., House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes told the co-anchors of “Fox & Friends” that the committee did not have advance notice of the raid reportedly carried out on Baghdadi’s compound in northwest Syria. “Baghdadi is believed to have been targeted a few miles…
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McCarthy: Pelosi to Trump: “You Just Wait to See What We Do”
“UNBECOMING OF A SPEAKER” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 20, 2019) — On today’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA23) told host Maria Bartiromo that during a Wednesday meeting at the White House concerning the deteriorating situation among Turkey, Syria and the Kurds since President Trump announced a withdrawal of U.S. special forces,…
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Old Frank on Trump’s Syria Decision: “This is the Time to Withdraw”
“WE HAVE NO SKIN IN THIS GAME” by “Old Frank,” ©2019 (Oct. 18, 2019) — Editor’s Note: On Friday morning, an acquaintance of the author, “Old Frank,” contacted him in regard to an article published Thursday in The New York Times titled, “Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President” by Adm. William H. McRaven,…
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Middle East (and US) Mired in Perpetual Military Mishmash?
“YOU THERE, DONALD?” October 14, 2019 Dear Editor, The mind simply boggles! A perpetual, Middle-Eastern military mishmash mire, to ponder: In northeastern Syria, the Americans abandon their ‘brothers in arms’ in the fight against the heinous IS, Kurdish allies to a savage onslaught from US NATO ally Turkey; the barbaric Assad-regime Syrians (allied to ex-KGB …
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Some Clarity on the US Withdrawal from Syria
“WE ARE NOT GOING THIS ALONE” October 10, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Many in the media and some in the Congress are joining “ex-Pentagon” and “ex-State Department officials” complaining about the president’s decision to withdraw the tiny remaining US force from Syria. They make it sound as though President Trump has given the Turks…
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks in Kenya, Syria Kill Americans
ARE AL QAEDA AND ISIS REALLY DEFEATED? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 16, 2019) — A terrorist attack on a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya was carried out Monday by the Al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabab, killing 15 people, including an American citizen, according to multiple sources. The New York Post reported Wednesday that the American killed…
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Christmas Now an Official Holiday in Iraq
“HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO OUR CHRISTIAN CITIZENS” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 25, 2018) — On Monday the government of Iraq tweeted that Christmas is now an “official holiday” throughout the country, once under the control of brutal dictator Saddam Hussein. “Happy Christmas to our Christian citizens, all Iraqis and to all who are celebrating around the…
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A Little Perspective — Please
“BRING HOME OUR TROOPS AND REBUILD OUR MILITARY” December 23, 2018 Dear Friends and Colleagues: The media hate Trump and, if not hate, at least disdain any of us who preferred him in 2016 to the crooked, lawless harridan whom the media preferred. No matter what Trump does, expect the print media and the networks…
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Time for United States to Police our Own Neighborhood
“PROBLEMS ON THE HOME FRONT” by Jeff Crouere, ©2018 (Dec. 21, 2018) — In November of 2016, the American people elected Donald Trump to be our nation’s 45th President. He campaigned on a platform of bringing our troops back home from Syria and Afghanistan and focusing on an “America First” foreign policy. By announcing he…
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Who Started Recent Hostilities Between Israel and Iran?
IT’S ALL IN HOW THE STORY IS TOLD by Sharon Rondeau (May 10, 2018) — A volley of airstrikes from Israel into Iranian-occupied areas of Syria on Thursday reportedly demolished virtually all Iranian military stations inside the war-torn country after “20 rockets” were reported by Israel to have been fired from Syria into the disputed…
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We are Living in a Very Interesting Time
“A REMINDER TO BE VIGILANT” by Stephen Thomas, ©2017 (Dec. 20, 2017) — Last month (November 22, 2017) there was a meeting in Sochi, a resort community on the Black Sea in Russia, hosted by Vladimir Putin. Attending the get-together were Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, and Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey. The focus of…