The stated figure is 2 killed and 5 wounded among Al Qaeda HTS terrorists ruling Syria with the blessings of the US-led NATO ‘defensive’ alliance. There are no reports of any casualties or ‘arrests’ among the ISIS cell they allegedly raided in the town of Rankous in Damascus Countryside province on the 22nd of October.
No information was given on why the raid took place; reports coming from Al Qaeda HTS propaganda outlets claim the raid took place with the assistance of more than one more unit of the head-chopping group.
Local sources attribute the recent fratricide to the need of the terrorists ruling Syria to distract the increasingly angered population from the continuous and escalating Israeli incursions in the three southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra, Sweida, and Daraa, the once-called ‘cradle’ of Al Qaeda HTS FSA ‘revolution’ against the secular state under President Bashar Al Assad. Israeli illegal incursions reached some of Damascus Countryside’s southern towns as well.
Another pressing reason for the Syrians’ anger is the economic failures of the terrorists despite the endless pledges of their puppet masters in the West, by the Gulfies, and even by betraying Russia.
New from Syria News: Syrian woman's account of what's actually happened to her country's oil — and it isn't reconstruction; it's a handover.
The pipeline America destroyed in Iraq is being reopened for America. The oil fields are "state property" on paper and Tom Barrack's in practice. The uranium stockpiles go to Turkey by the truckload. And while ordinary Syrians can't afford electricity or get their garbage collected, the terrorists running Damascus keep signing contracts over infrastructure they blew up themselves.
We've documented this theft for over a decade under every administration that took part in it — Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump again — and this is just the latest chapter, dressed up in new language.
Zionist-controlled, US-led, NATO-sponsored, Russian-approved, Gulfies-funded Al Qaeda HTS and the other Zionist-controlled, US-led, NATO-sponsored, Russian-approved Kurdish SDF terrorists agreed on joint rule of Syria after they destroyed the country, murdered over half a million Syrians, and expelled more than 5 million into the diaspora, just to serve their masters better, of course.
That's disgusting, overwhelmingly; what's less disgusting but disgusting nevertheless is the blind eye turned on this alliance by parties supposed to be anti-imperialists, or that's how they promote themselves; I'll not call them fake in their anti-imperialist stance, they did expose some of the crimes committed by the NATO-sponsored terrorists in my country, but they were and continue to be silent about the crimes and terror committed by their 'Marxist' ilk, the so-called Kurdish SDF groups, which kept renaming their group to please their NATO and Israel masters.
Prominent German historian and political analyst Stefan Heuer brings to light the above hypocrisy by the German publication 'junge Welt (young world; jW)' in their article covering the dissolution of the Kurdish SDF separatist terrorists after 'Mission Accomplished,' in his latest contribution to Syria News.
Some of the claims used by the German publication are hard to look past, like 'the SDF were the defence force of the autonomous region of Rojava in north-eastern Syria', what autonomous region, and what Rojava? The area claimed to be under their 'defending' was controlled by terror, oppression, and burning crops Israel-style; that's not defending, that's occupation.
Another example: 'the SDF are (now) dissolved and integrated into the Syrian army '- what Syrian Army? The Syrian Arab Army was completely dissolved and replaced with Al Qaeda HTS and their affiliated terrorist groups, many of whom are foreign anti-Islamic Wahhabi and Muslim Brotherhood 'freedom fighters'.
We wouldn't usually blame foreigners, especially Westerners, when commenting on the news in our region, especially in the Levant; they're under constant, enormous Zionist propaganda; otherwise, they wouldn't be serving the Zionists for free, and on the account of their own well-being. We're only criticizing the supposed-to-be enlightened of them who are presumably fighting the same cause that Syria battled on behalf of humanity for over 13.5 years alone and was being backstabbed by its own allies until it gave up from exhaustion.
Craig Mokhiber, former New York Office Director of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, exposed on X what Western newsrooms and, in extension, Western politicians, intentionally manipulate.
Mokhiber said "The constant sanitizing of language by the corporate Western media, done on behalf of the US-Israel Axis, is simply stunning to watch. The attacks on Iran are not some "war of choice," they are the crime of aggression, full stop. The Israeli regime's ongoing attacks on the Palestinian people are not a "war", they are the crime of genocide. And the lawless dissemination of Axis propaganda by the media is not journalism, it's complicity."
This is exactly the same game we have been documenting here on Syria News since the war of terror on Syria first began, more than a decade and a half ago now.
Language is never innocent in these wars. It is chosen, on purpose, word by word, to launder real crimes into something soft and forgettable for the people back home in the West, the very same people whose tax money is paying for all of it.
We were heavily criticized for years, since the very beginning of the war of terror on Syria, simply for refusing to call the head-chopping terrorists of Al Qaeda and ISIS by the polite name the mainstream media insisted on using for them, "moderate rebels." That was the accepted narrative back then. Anyone who called it what it actually was got labeled "not balanced."
It is the same trick, over and over, in every single one of these wars.
An illegal aggression becomes a "strike."
Unilateral sanctions, imposed without any approval whatsoever from the United Nations Security Council, become simple "measures," almost like paperwork.
And now, a deliberate war of aggression by choice against Iran, which is in fact the highest crime recognized under international law, as it was defined by no one other than the victors of World War II themselves when they wrote the UN Charter, gets softened down into something as forgettable as "tensions in the region."
Mokhiber is completely right to name this for what it is. It is not journalism, it is complicity, and it has been complicity for a very long time now.
If you want to see, in real and undeniable clinical detail, exactly what all these sanitized, softened words are actually hiding underneath them, we invite you to check our two-part series, The War of Terror on Syria Through Forensic Medicine and its second part here.
We have also collected many more examples just like this one, over the years, under our War of Terror tag on the site, a running record of the real gap between the words the media chooses to use, and the actual heinous crimes those words are designed to hide from you.
Syria News contributor Safaa Syria, writing back to the site from inside the wound, refuses to let the world call this "progress."
On the sidelines of the recent NATO summit in Turkey, Trump summoned Al Qaeda HTS commander and former deputy commander of ISIS Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani and his foreign minister, and spewed the full recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan in front of the terrorists' delegation, dressed up as American generosity: a promise to finally scrub Syria off Washington's terrorism list after 47 years.
Al Qaeda HTS's Foreign Ministry called it the closing of a "dark chapter." Safaa calls it what it actually is: a forged certificate of good conduct, purchased with land that was never Israel's or Jolani's, to be traded away.
Safaa walks through the nineteen months since Al Qaeda HTS took Damascus without a fight — the dollar back at war-time highs, sixty percent of minority public employees fired before the "raises" arrived, electricity priced out of reach of anyone without a salary, hundreds of hectares of Syrian wheat fields burned to keep bread an import, and the new regime's own oil fields sold back to citizens at world price.
Ten bombings in Damascus in a single week, one near the low-rated Macron while he shook Al-Jolani's hand, the worst bombing gutted a cafe behind the Justice Palace. She asks the only honest question left: Is this what liberation from terrorism looks like?
Don't let anyone tell you the lie of selling the Golan to Israel died quietly with Hafez Al-Assad's name attached to it; it was buried in silence, along with everyone who spread it for years and never apologized: The Golan Was Sold With a Forged Certificate of Good Conduct.
