US expands Syria air-strikes; Israel downs fighter
As the US struck both ISIS and Nusra Front positions in Syria, Israel shot down a Syrian fighter plane it said had violated its airspace over the Golan Heights.
As the US struck both ISIS and Nusra Front positions in Syria, Israel shot down a Syrian fighter plane it said had violated its airspace over the Golan Heights.
ISIS posted videos online of Syrian and Kurdish troops being beheaded, while Nusra Front seized 43 UN peacekeepers near the Israeli line in the Golan Heights.
ISIS supporters posted photos to Twitter of fighters from the militant group in control of warplanes, missiles and tanks seized after the jihadists overran the Syrian air base of Tabaqa.
A suicide blast hit Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after Hezbollah fighters took a Syrian border town. Meanwhile, a Syrian opposition figure broaches selling the Golan for Israeli military aid.
The US ironically announces a halt in aid to the Syrian rebels on the same day that the UN concludes there have been multiple chemical attacks in the country this year.
Armenians, Circassians, Mandaeans and other small ethnicities in Syria are being uprooted by jihadist terror, and increasingly see the Assad regime as the lesser evil.
Anti-war voices in the US raise nonsensical slogans like "No war in Syria!"—blind to two million refugees, 100,000 dead, bombs falling on schools, and acts of genocide.
Israel's claim that Syria has used chemical weapons comes as rebel militias have assumed positions near the line of control in the Golan Heights.
The Martyrs of Yarmouk militant group seized UN peacekeepers on Syria's line of control with the Golan Heights, as international Shi'ite militants converge in Damascus.
The US government added Syria's al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant to the "foreign terrorist organizations" list, placing sanctions on two of its senior leaders.
Is a "false flag" attack in preparation to faciliate military intervention that would install the rebels in power? Or is Washington more afraid of WMD falling into jihadist hands?