NOVANEWS BELARUS TO SEND MORE FORCES TO SYRIA; HUGE ARMY BUILDUP TO TAKE BACK JISR AL-SHUGHOOR Ziad Fadel image: http://jpnews-sy.com/ar/images/news/big/93177.jpg If Russia wants complete security for its forces and airbases in Syria, it must secure Jisr […]
NOVANEWS Ziad Fadel image: http://albaathmedia.sy/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1438866278_content_thumb.gif LATAKIA: Let there be no doubt that the Russians are in Syria as soldiers, pilots, advisers and trainers. The evidence at hand is overwhelming. The issue of Chinese involvement remains […]
NOVANEWS Since the US-led global war on terror prolonged, media analysts started attributing it with the defeat of the United States and its allies, while opining about acceleration of terror-attacks in the volatile countries, financial […]
NOVANEWS THE BA’ATH AND RUSSIAN BOOTS ON THE GROUND Ziad Fadel image: http://www.syrianhistory.com/uploads/photo/image/show_cd4e93e4-925e-4974-9011-13e5ade1623d.jpg This is one of the three founders of the Ba’ath Party, Michel Aflaq. Along with Salaahuddeen Al-Bitar and Zaki Al-Arsouzi, they established a Pan-Arab political party […]
NOVANEWS And another graph that explains the migrant crises of 2016-2100 STEVE SAILER The demographers of the United Nation’s Population Division have quietly released their World Population Prospects: 2015 Revision report. Above is a graph I put together […]
NOVANEWS STEVE SAILER To understand what’s at stake regarding the Mediterranean, here’s a graph I made from the numbers in World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision: Volume II: Demographic Profiles, which was published in 2013 by […]
NOVANEWS This email from my driver in Baghdad proves it PATRICK COCKBURN I used to have a driver called Omar in Baghdad at the height of the Sunni-Shia slaughter between 2004 and 2010. He was […]
NOVANEWS GENERAL AL-FURAYJ REVIEWS TROOPS IN DER’AH AS SYRIAN JETS ROCK ISIS AND ALQAEDA Ziad Fadel ALEPPO: image: http://sana.sy/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sana.sy_236.jpg The Russian campaign is now in full swing. Eyewitness reports indicate an active program of engagement […]
NOVANEWS [Prefatory Note: The review below was initially published in the Journal of the Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World (SCITIW REVIEW). http://sctiw.org/sctiwreviewarchives/archives/74 It is one of three remarkable books dealing with Gaza that I read […]
NOVANEWS AFTER THEIR FAILED EFFORT TO PENETRATE DAMASCUS Ziad Fadel DAMASCUS: image: http://jpnews-sy.com/ar/images/news/big/93034.jpg With the Syrian Army and Hizbollah now entrenched at the critical area of Al-Naaboo’ people are forgetting the rest of the province. For the last 10 […]