Konflikten i Syrien

What Lies Beneath Western Media Distorted Coverage of Syrian War

TEHRAN (FNA)- The US media coverage of the Syrian war is completely divorced from reality, award-winning American author and foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer writes, adding that much of the US press is reporting the opposite of what is actually happening on the ground.

Americans have almost no real information about what is going on in Syria, and much of the blame for this lies with US mainstream media, award-winning US author and foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer stresses.

"Coverage of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press," Kinzer writes in his article for The Boston Globe.

Incredible as it may seem, the American mainstream media is reporting quite the opposite of what is really happening on the ground.

To illustrate his statement Kinzer refers to the Aleppo takeover.
"Many news reports suggest that Aleppo has been a 'liberated zone' for three years but is now being pulled back into misery," the journalist notes.

But the stark reality is that the city has been run by violent Islamist militias, including al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front and Daesh fighters backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia. They terrorized the locals, destroyed factories and smuggled the stolen machinery to Turkey.

In light of this the Russo-Syrian offensive was regarded as the only hope by the civilians.

Meanwhile, Washington-based journalists are convincing the US public that al-Nusra, is comprised of "rebels" or "moderates," remaining mute that the infamous group is the local al-Qaeda franchise.

"On the issue of who should do and can do the fighting [in Syria] I always believed and in fact the retired chief of the British general staff Lord [Richards] said… that there is only one real fighting force — the Syrian Army. Therefore Obama's plan to get rid of Assad which would risk the stability of the Syrian state and thus the Syrian Army, as happened when they got rid of Gaddafi in Libya, was a mistaken policy," the American academic said in an interview on The John Batchelor Show.

The academic believes that there is actually a plan for invasion of Syria by Turkish-Saudi forces. The question remains open whether or not Washington policymakers will authorize the ground military campaign.
Washington wants to maintain "leadership" in the Middle Eastern region. In this context the success of the Russo-Syrian military campaign obviously contradicts the US war party's agenda.

According to a military source from Liwaa Al-Quds, the Tiger Forces and their allies broke-through ISIS’ defenses at the southern flank of Khanasser this morning and secured the perimeter before they entered this imperative city in northeastern Hama. In addition to their advance at Khanasser, the Tiger Forces and their allies also reentered the village of Shillalah Al-Kabeera after a violent battle with the ISIS terrorists that captured this site during their powerful assault yesterday; this village is located to the south of the recently captured town of Rasm Al-Nafal.

UNSC Condemns Terrorist Bombings in Homs and Damascus Countryside

UN Security Council (UNSC) strongly condemned the terrorist bombings that hit last Sunday al-Sayyeda Zeinab area in Damascus Countryside and al-Zahra Neighborhood in Homs city, claiming the lives of at least 130 people.

The UNSC also called for resuming the inter-Syrian dialogue in Geneva as soon as possible.
On Monday, The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry sent two identical letters to the UN Secretary-General and the head of the Security Council on the terrorist bombings, demanding that the Security Council and the UN Secretary-General condemn these terrorist crimes immediately and sternly, in addition to demanding that UNSC take immediate deterrent and punitive measures against the states that support and fund terrorism, particularly Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

More than 130 civilians were killed and hundreds were injured including a large number of children and women in a series of terrorist attacks that targeted al-Sayyeda Zainab city in Damascus Countryside and al-Zahra neighborhood in Homs City last Sunday.