People usually pay special attention to the most acute issues of their time. The security of the world and welfare of separate countries and all humanity sometimes directly depend on military conflicts. Therefore, their coverage in political discourse requires qualitative and detailed research. This paper’s aims are to analyze the media coverage of the Syrian military conflict in Russia and in the United States and to compare the ways these national media highlight the conflict. We employed critical discourse analysis as a method of research. The paper tries to prove that political communication in the context of an armed conflict does not carry much information about the events themselves compared to their analysis, interpretation and evaluation. We suggest that covering the military conflict media imposes a great impact on people's minds, sometimes hidden and manipulative and its messages are strategically formed to propagate certain ideas and ideology.
