Posts Tagged ‘helmets’

Syria’s White Helmets accuse regime of ‘targeted attack’ on volunteer

The Syrian Civil Defence Organisation, commonly known as the White Helmets, yesterday accused the Syrian regime of killing one of its volunteers using a “guided heat missile” in a “targeted attack”. The organisation said a team of its volunteers was inspecting areas near the town of Atarib, northwest of Syria, when regime forces targeted them. […]

Romans Wore Red-Crested Helmets to Avoid Fratricide on the Battlefield

We’ve all become accustomed to seeing iconic red-crested helmets depicted in Hollywood battle scenes set in the Roman era. Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later  Source

12 Jaw-Dropping Helmets from the Ancient World

Helmets of the ancient world could be dazzling, terrifying, intimidating or sometimes simply practical. Here we look at 12 incredible helmets from across the ancient world. Read more Section:  Artifacts Other Artifacts News Read Later 

NATO White Helmets follow al-Qaeda to Ukraine

Vanessa Beeley Four-hundred and fifty extremists from Idlib, north-west Syria have arrived in Ukraine according to Al Mayadeen. Hailing from Idlib – the “largest Al Qaeda haven since 9/11”-  these fanatics from various countries have been despatched to Ukraine to fight against the Russian forces that alongside the Syrian Arab Amy signified the end of […]

Do 3,000-year-old Bronze Age Horned Helmets Have Trans-Continental Links?

A team of researchers has sampled organic matter from residue found inside a rare and deeply ancient bronze horned-helmet in Denmark. But their claim that a long-distance prehistoric oceanic trade route connected Scandinavia with the Mediterranean is not resting well with everyone. Back in 1942 a Danish peat cutter was digging in a bog on […]

Russia: White Helmets plotting false-flag chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib to accuse Damascus

By VT Editors -November 4, 2021 The Russian Defense Ministry has warned that members of the so-called civil defense group, White Helmets, are planning to mount yet another false-flag chemical attack against civilians in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib in order to incriminate the Damascus government. “The Center for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria has […]

Allegations against Blue Helmets in the CAR are on the Rise!

During the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, the Central African Republic once again questioned the ineffectiveness of the Blue Helmets in the country, repeated accusations of staff members of the multidisciplinary, international mission in the CAR (MINUSCA) of pandering to radicals and other crimes against the indigenous population of the state. UN peacekeepers, over […]

Helmets and Vaccines Save Lives

17/09/2021 — Savitri Hensman Share:Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on TelegramShare on RedditShare on Email This year there was international outrage when a frail 84-year-old Jesuit priest with Parkinson’s disease, Stan Swamy, died after being held in an Indian jail in inhumane conditions, on flimsy charges. When he was eventually moved to hospital, […]

Russian Foreign Ministry on Ukraine, White Helmets, the US and Gaza

By Stephen Lendman Source Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (MZ below) slammed US-installed Ukrainian puppet president Zelensky for failing to fulfill his “pledge to launch real reform, restore peace in Donbass and change Ukrainians’ lives for the better.” He’s gone the opposite way in obeying orders from his higher power in Washington. MZ: “Political […]

Canada Ends Funding for Terror Linked ‘White Helmets’ -Tied to False Flag Gas Attacks in Syria

By VT Editors -April 22, 2021 From the Globe and Mail: Canada has ended all funding to Syria’s famed White Helmets rescue group, with the final cut being the severance of $70 a month in stipends to 43 people who were left behind in a Jordanian refugee camp following a Canadian-led evacuation in the summer of 2018. […]

Muslim Azerbaijan president poses with helmets taken from fallen Armenian soldiers

    Azerbaijan’s long-time leader, Ilham Aliyev, has officially opened a museum dedicated to the country’s victory over neighboring Armenia in a series of bloody battles that claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers on both sides. On Monday, the presidential press service released a series of photographs showing the leader inspecting captured hardware and […]

Syria’s White Helmets rescue four-year-old girl from well

Footage from Syrian rescue workers known as The White Helmets shows them rescuing a four-year-old girl. Sumaya had fallen down a well in the northern Syrian town of Al-Bab. She had reportedly been playing with her cousin near the well when she fell. The rescue team took two hours to bring her to safety. Rescue […]

Russian Foreign Ministry on Syria, White Helmets, and Other Issues

By Stephen Lendman Source The struggle for Syria’s soul continues with no end of it in sight. It’s because of diabolical US/NATO/Israeli imperial aims.  They’ll likely continue endlessly with unrelenting savagery against long-suffering Syrians. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (MZ) below discussed little about endless war in her latest weekly report. Saying conditions remain […]

Vendel Helmets: Spectacular Scandinavian Relics from the Vendel Period

Vendel and Valsgärde are two archaeological sites located in Sweden. Both of these sites were once used as burial grounds, and it is from the former that a period in Swedish prehistory, the Vendel period, derived its name. At these burial sites a number of helmets have been found. Considered to be some of the […]

Battlefield Archaeology: Ancient Warrior Helmets and Head-Gear

Books, text, manuscripts and oral histories of most ancient cultures abound with heroes wielding an array of ancient weapons including endless famous swords, spears and supernaturally charged armor that were often gifted to the warriors by gods. However, while such weapons of war thrive in historical fictions they are no less prominent in the real […]

Jaafari to UNSC: US, Turkey, White Helmets Plot Chemical Attack in Idlib

September 11, 2020 Miri Wood H.E. Bashar al Jaafari Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, His Excellency Dr. Bashar al Jaafari dropped another bombshell at the 84th meeting of the UNSC on the ‘Syrian chemical weapons’ file since the passage of UNSCR 2118 (2013), noting that a certain American envoy recently visited Turkey to plot out […]

Meet the “Violet” Successors to the White Helmets’ Syria Propaganda Throne

“To be purple means to be gifted, hopeful, and sacrificed”—motto of the Violet organization The Violet organization in Idlib. Photo: Violet gallery While the world is distracted by the Covid-19 crisis, scant attention has been paid to events in Syria. The US-led coalition is maintaining a savage multispectrum war on the country, but few are […]

WaPo Glorifies Antifa In Fashion Spread That Tries, Fails To Make Bike Helmets Sexy

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White Helmets Implicated in Cash Embezzlement and Fraud Scandal

Any time you see the White Helmets in the news these days, it’s probably going to be for all the wrong reasons. This latest bombshell is no exception. As 21WIRE has previously noted, this “urban search and rescue” organisation claims to be “impartial” in the Syrian conflict, even though it has receive nearly all of […]

Journalism Prof: US may rebrand White Helmets due to negative publicity

     Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has promised that the US would soon make a decision on funding for the White Helmets, the ‘civil defense’ group Damascus and Moscow have accused of staging a chemical attack in April and of cooperating with extremist groups. Speaking to Sputnik, political journalism expert Piers Robinson laid out Washington’s […]

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