A few weeks back NEO ran an article that revealed the doublespeak of western conflict resolution. A telling look at an NGO known as the International Crisis Group showed clearly the tangled web of control mechanisms in place to skew policy and to mislead the public. Today the "crisis" has migrated once again, from Syria back to a the chaos exerted onto the people of Libya, and a new "king-building process" there. Here's a candid look at western hegemony still hard at work.

When I cast Former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and International Crisis Group Trustee, Emma Bonino one of the handmaidens of chaos, there was no outcry from her PR people. The reasons for this are pretty simple. First, dignitaries like Ms. Bonino must appear far too busy and important to address every criticism. Secondly, the roles of such people are now irrefutable within the real of digital media. The mountain of circumstantial and prima fascia proof disruptors like George Soros - his associates such as; Baron Malloch-Brown, Madeleine Albright, Lord Jacob Rothschild, and the artist of the Russian Afghanistan mess, Zbigniew Brzezinksi are just some of the cadre of interested parties in today's foreign policy cataclysm. But their game is an old and well known contest for power and control. My focus this week has been more on the foot soldiers of this old-new-world-order, and their strategies to reshape nations. You've all been hearing about ISIL regrouping in war torn Libya, but I'll wager few reading this understand what is really going on there. For insight into how these people work, how they practice "double speak", this video just after Crimea began rejoining Russia sets the tone. In the clip from CNN, first Brzezinski, then Fullbright blame Putin for what was in effect perpetrated by the west.

The Syrian Army has reportedly taken control of a medieval castle on the hill overlooking the city of Palmyra as the government troops edge closer to reclaiming the historic site from Islamic State terrorists.

"The army units in cooperation with popular defense groups have taken control of the Tadmor [Palmyra] citadel after delivering significant losses to the terrorists," SANA news agency reported, citing a military source. The Syrian military began the storming of the Fakhr-al-Din al-Maani Castle, or Palmyra Castle, which was the last strategic height in the city held by the jihadists, on Friday morning.

The Syrian Army hasn't officially confirmed the recapture of Palmyra Castle, Ibrahim Isa, RT's stringer in Palmyra, said. "However, several units of the Syrian Army have managed to go in and break the defense line of the terrorists," he added, citing sources on the ground.

"From Tuesday to Thursday (March 22-24) the planes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out 41 sorties to support the advancing Syrian army and strike Islamic State (IS, Daesh, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants in the area of Palmyra (Homs province)," Lieutenant General Sergey Kuralenko, head of the Russian ceasefire monitoring center, said on Friday.

"As a result of the actions of the Russian aviation, 146 terrorist facilities, including command centers, ammunition depots, artillery units, tanks and other vehicles, were destroyed," he added. Earlier on Friday, there were reports that the Syrian Army had taken control of a medieval castle situated on the hill overlooking the city of Palmyra. The 13th-century Fakhr-al-Din al-Maani Castle, or Palmyra Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was the last strategic height in the city held by Islamic State fighters.

On March 14, Russia announced that it was withdrawing the majority of its forces from Syria, as the five-month operation nears its goals.

However, Deputy Defense Minister Nikolay Pankov stressed that Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, formerly known for housing some of the best-preserved monuments of antiquity anywhere in the world. After capturing the historical landmark, the jihadists blew up the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel, and the Arch of Triumph, and used the Roman-era amphitheater for filmed public executions.

If you believe many of the commentators and policy makers in Washington, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is an expansionist on the march. He's had one great success after another: First, he annexed Crimea and fueled a destabilizing conflict in eastern Ukraine. Then he intervened in the Syrian civil war and rescued his client, the government of Bashar al-Assad, in its moment of need. Last month, Ashton B. Carter, the Secretary of Defense, indicated that he believed that Russia is the world's greatest threat to American national security, ahead of a nuclear-armed North Korea and the jihadists of the Islamic State.

This alarmism is counterproductive and largely wrong.

Three weeks into a partial truce, Russia has begun withdrawing most of its forces from Syria after Mr. Putin claimed that the military's goals there had been achieved. In Ukraine, a cease-fire has been in place for over six months with few changes to the country's situation. These realities underline the truth: Russia's objectives are limited. The United States should recognize and accept this, and — while it may be hard for some in Washington to imagine — work with Moscow when interests overlap.

In Syria, Russia has had two linked aims: making sure that the Syrian regime survives in some form and ensuring that Russia will play a key part in whatever peace process eventually brings an end to the civil war. Washington has now been forced to accept these Russian positions.

Press TV has interviewed Hussein al-Bukhaiti, a Yemeni activist and political commentator in Sana'a, about the US claiming that its warplanes have targeted a training camp of al-Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Walk us through what took place in Hadramawt Province.

Bukhaiti: We know that al-Qaeda has been in control of Hadramawt from the beginning of the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen and this coalition has never ever targeted any al-Qaeda training camps. They have seized all military bases in Abyan, in Shabwa, and as well in Hadramawt.

They were defeated by Ansarullah, the Houthis and the Popular Committees and the Yemeni army before the Saudi-led coalition which have brought them back to those areas and yesterday we saw this statement from the Pentagon, but let's be clear here that the US has been targeting al-Qaeda for the last six years in Yemen, it has not succeeded in defeating al-Qaeda. It has killed hundreds of civilians in Yemen, the US drones have killed those civilians, and those attacks are used as a recruitment effort or recruitment propaganda for al-Qaeda to recruit more fighters in their effort to seize many areas in Yemen.

And we hear that yesterday many Saudi outlets and surprisingly some independent outlets like Reuters have claimed that the Saudi-led coalition did target this and I think this statement, it came as a denial to those claims by the Saudi-led coalition media.

An explosion has been heard in the Belgian capital of Brussels during an anti-terror raid, local media reported Friday.

According to RTBF television, one person has been "neutralized" near a metro station during the major anti-terrorist operation in Brussels.

The police broke into a building in the area, that had been cordoned off beforehand. The media reported that an explosion and gunfire had been heard during the operation.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has visited Russia for the third time in less than a year. In an interview with TASS First Deputy Director-General, Mikhail Gusman, John Kerry has clarified the future of the relations between Russia and the United States.

TASS: Mr. Secretary, welcome to Moscow. It's very good to see you here. It's your third visit to Russia in less than a year. And before that there was a long pause. Are we getting back to normal in our dialogue?

Kerry: Well, we'd like to get back to it. We're making progress. I think that Foreign Minister Lavrov - Sergey Lavrov - and I have had a very productive relationship and we've been able to separate differences and work together in a very effective way. President Putin has been very gracious to spend time with me when I've come here and to work at trying to find a solution to very complicated issues. I think it's safe to say that the United States-Russia joint effort on the ceasefire has had an impact. It's been very positive. And that's the way we can build back to a much stronger, more effective relationship.

Following high-profile meetings in Moscow, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a joint news conference on Thursday night. Both diplomats agreed on the importance of strengthening bilateral relations between Washington and Moscow. Speaking on Syria, Kerry and Lavrov also agreed to continue to coordinate efforts in Syria to prevent ceasefire violations.

"Thanks to our cooperation on such a basis it was possible to make serious progress in overcoming the Syrian crisis. Thanks to the Russian-American initiative approved by presidents [Vladimir] Putin and [Barack] Obama, a mechanism of international support for Syrian reconciliation was formed — the so-called Syria Support Group," Kerry said."Today we've agreed to build up on the March 14 telephone conversation between the [US and Russian] presidents and to continue coordinating actions in order to secure the cessation of hostilities regime, to curb violations of this regime," Lavrov added. For the time being, the ceasefire appears to be effective. "The cessation of hostilities has largely held, not entirely," Kerry said. "The overall level of bombing and of shelling has decreased sharply."

To ensure the implementation of UN resolutions on Syria, Washington and Moscow agreed to facilitate direct talks between Damascus and opposition groups. They also agreed to end the indiscriminate use of weapons. "We agreed today to build on recent gains by taking immediate steps to reinforce the cessation of hostilities, including by working to end the use of any indiscriminate weapons, to halt attempts by either side to seize new territory, and to finalize a common understanding for how this cessation can be institutionalized," Kerry said.

Belgium has confirmed plans to carry out airstrikes on Daesh targets as part of the US-led coalition after the Brussels deadly attacks earlier this week, the country's prime minister, Charles Michel, said Friday.

"In the framework of the agreement with the Netherlands, we will resume the mission of our F-16s, we will hold a debate in the parliament and the government to decide whether it is possible to expand the mandate of F-16s," Michel said during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry.

On Tuesday, two suicide blasts hit the departures hall of Brussels' Zaventem international airport and an explosion shook a subway carriage at the Maelbeek station, close to the EU institutions. Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks.

This day, 22 March, should have been different, not the one we all had. There should have been meetings, documents - a calm day, with time to get ready for a big 'week of negotiations'.

We received the first news of the terror attacks in Belgium at 10 a.m.. An hour and a half later we became aware of the scale of the tragedy. Telephones "exploded".

"Are there any Russians involved in the Brussels tragedy?"

"How does Foreign Ministry evaluate what is happening in Brussels?"

"Is there any plan to counteract the terrorist threat in Europe?"

"What's next?"