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SOURCE: facebook.com/Encyclopedia.of.Syrian.military/ More details have appeared about  the Syrian Air Defense Forces’ Pantsir-S short to medium range air defense system , which was destroyed by Israel during  the May 10 encounter . The picture from the site where the air defense system was destroyed allowed to get a more precise picture of the May 10 incident. It appears that the Pantsir-S was not in a combat position, including radar, after it had fired all of its missiles at some targets. The position of hydrostructs allows to suggest that the system was preparing to move for reloading. It should be noted that initially multiple pro-opposition sources used the Israeli video of the Pantsir-S destruction to mock the Syrian Air Defense Forces as unprofessional. Now, when more details have appeared, such statements look much more questionable.

Written by  Mike Whitney ; Originally appeared at  The Unz Review Did Donald Trump scrap the Iran nuke’s deal to pay back his pro-Israel campaign donors? Political analyst Eli Clifton seems to think so, and he argues the point pretty persuasively too. Here’s an except from his article at the Lobe Log: “President Donald Trump has just fulfilled a campaign pledge to tear up the Obama administration’s signature foreign policy achievement…the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. (The Iran Nukes deal)….. ….today’s unpopular announcement may have been exactly what two of Trump’s biggest donors, Sheldon Adelson and Bernard Marcus, and what one of his biggest inaugural supporters, Paul Singer, paid for when they threw their financial weight behind Trump. Marcus and Adelson, who are also board members of the Likudist Republican Jewish Coalition, have already received substantial returns on their investment: total alignment by the U.S. behind Israel… Adelson… contributed $35

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has mocked President Donald Trump over a leaked email to Persian Gulf states by saying that Washington “wants to own humiliated slaves”. According to Khamenei, Trump wrote to in he email: “I spent $7 trillion and you must do something in return.” The New York Times citing own source confirmed that Trump had sent two the US allies two emails saying that the US has spent too much money to help allies in the Middle East and calling on the allies to contribute more efforts to counter Iran. Additionally, Trump allegedly called on the allies to act more actively in regards of the Syrian conflict. Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir A few days ago Trump wrote a letter to leaders of # PersianGulf states, which was revealed to us. He wrote: "I spent $7 trillion and you must do something in return." The U.S. wants to own humiliated slaves. 13:06 - 9 May 2018 850 439 people are talking about this Twitter Ads infor

Newly elected Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinian. SOURCE: THANASSIS STAVRAKIS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Written by  J.Hawk  exclusively for  SouthFront On the face of it, one should not be overly concerned with the events in Armenia on the grounds that “immutable structural factors” prevent Armenia from breaking off its relations with Russia and embracing the EU and even NATO. For starters, Armenia lacks its own equivalent of Galician nationalism. There were no Armenian Waffen-SS divisions, there is no Armenian Stepan Bandera. The memory of the Armenian Genocide, whose existence Turkey still denies, is a major barrier to moving toward the West because in practical terms it would mean moving toward Turkey, and into its neo-Ottoman, pan-Turkic sphere of influence where there is plainly no room for it. The conflict with Azerbaijan is still unresolved, as is the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, with periodic exchanges of fire between Armenian and Azeri troops making this the hottest post

On May 11, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released a series of photos showing alleged Iranian facilities, which were targeted by the May 10 Israeli strikes on Syria.  MORE ABOUT THE STRIKE

On May 9, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Liwa al-Quds backed by the Russian Aerospace Force continued their advance in the ISIS-held pocket between Homs and Deir Ezzor governorates reaching the al-Tamah area, 60km southwest of the city of Deir Ezzor, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). SAA soldiers killed several fighters of ISIS during their advance. The SANA said that the SAA and its allies had liberated more than 15,00 km2 in the western and southwestern Deir Ezzor countryside from ISIS since  the begining of their military operation there on May 8 . Click to see the full-size image From its side, the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq has not released any report about the ongoing clashes between ISIS and the SAA in western Deir Ezzor. However, the source said that ISIS fighters had shelled several positions of the SAA around the city of al-Bukamal in the southeastern Deir Ezzor countryside with recoilless rifles. Syrian pro-government activists believe that t

Last night,  at least 20 rockets were launched from southern Syria  at positions of the Israeli military in the Golan Heights. The rocket was reportedly aimed at the following Israeli targets: A HQ of the border brigade 9900 A HQ of the border brigade 810 A technical and electronic survey facility A HQ of the EW jamming facility A communication and transmission facility A helicopters airfield An outpost at Hermon Mount Alpinist unit HQ The Israeli side accused Iran of conducting this attack, which some experts viewed as Teheran’s response to  the recent Israeli strikes on the T4 airbase in Syria  where some Iranian servicemen were killed. Some pro-Russian Telegram channels spread a following pic as an example of the damage caused by the rocket shelling.  It is fake . For example: In response, the Israeli military shelled positions of the Syrian Arab Army and the National Defense Forces near Hadar and Khan Arnabah in the southern Syrian governorate of al-Quneitra.