The Vineyard of the Saker

On at least three occasions I tried to dispel the notion that the US/NATO could attack Russia or Russian forces in the Ukraine (see here , h...

28th June: A leader of the Naqshabandi order, Khalid Ibrahim, has been killed in the north east of Baqouba. He was killed along with five as...

Strelkov & Militia Briefings, June 27, 2014 Combined for June 27, 2014 Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov Report on the OSCE Mission...

Two short/long analyses in one: Was the fall of Mosul good for the Shia militias? and Are the Sunnis/Wahabi tougher than the Shia? Till...

Warning: the following is not an analysis , it is a " cri du coeur " ! Looking at the photo of the three stooges oh so proud of ...

26th June: Another 50 US advisors arrive in Baghdad taking the tally up to 180, of the legendary 300 promised. Hope they don’t face the same...

I will be gone for the full day, so I leave you with an open thread (and *please* spare me the Nazi apologetics at least for today!) and thi...

Dear friends, Very little is really know about the inner workings of the US-EU relationship and the corporate media only serves us the offic...

Dear friends, Today I want to share with you the contents of three emails which I got over the past couple of days.  My correspondent does...

22nd June: Umaya Naji Jbara, the advisor to the governor of Tikrit was killed by a Daash sniper. She was holding a RPG at the time of death ...