from the News Desk @ The Cradle, January 23, 2026 Washington has threatened to block Iraq’s access to its own oil revenue held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York if representatives of Shia armed parties enjoying support from Iran are included in the next government, Reuters reported on …
Read More »SanctionsKill Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures
Syria is a particularly informative example of the ways in which Unilateral Coercive Measures have caused extreme suffering for the people while they did nothing to end the cited abuses of their government. The charitable works funded by Syria Support Movement allowed us to have an inside look at the …
Read More »SSM Helps Mother Agnes Mariam Bring Relief to Alawite Refugees in the West from Syrian Kurds in the East (Updated)
Note from Mother Agnes, Dear Paul, your generous donation allowed me to fund the fuel for the distribution operations of the SOLE relief convoy to the Syrian Coast. I bargained it with the Kurdish Self Administration in the North East of Syria and brought it to the Coast. 300 tons …
Read More »Can Iraq broker peace between Syria and Turkiye?
by Khalil Harb, published on The Cradle, June 17, 2024 Recent developments indicate a potential thaw in the frosty relations between Damascus and Ankara, but a breakthrough remains uncertain. Despite the bleak outlook, Baghdad hopes to replicate its past success in mediating between adversaries. In April 2021, Iraq facilitated a …
Read More »White House Orders Pentagon Airstrikes on Eastern Syria
by Abayome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, November 9, 2023 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the aerial attacks on a purported weapons storage facility follows previous actions on October 27 in response to the escalation of attacks on United States bases by resistance forces in solidarity with the people …
Read More »China-Syria Strategic Partnership Faces the US Imposed Stalemate
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, September 27, 2023 On September 22, during a diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that China would help Syria to rebuild its ruined economy by upgrading ties to a “strategic partnership“, which means close coordination on …
Read More »The War in Syria Continues
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 23, 2023 The battlefields in Syria lie silent, the US-NATO attack for regime change failed. But, in the northeast the conflict continues between the US occupation forces and those who are trying to oust them. Syria, Russia and their allies have a …
Read More »Richard Medhurst on Israeli and U.S. Occupations in Syria
The clip is about an hour of a longer show. Richard provides a play by play timeline of Zionist/western terrorism and betrayal since WWII that I have heard, starting with the attack on the Europeans in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, sending a message to the British …
Read More »“The US will strengthen its occupation of Syria, while plundering oil resources”
Interview with Glenn Diesen by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 11. 2023 The Obama administration began the US military occupation of Syria in November 2015. Obama sold the public on the idea of fighting ISIS, but in reality military personnel of Syria, Russia, Iraq and Iran were already …
Read More »The Suffering of Syrians and US Sanctions
by Susan Dirgham, published on Pearls and Irritations, August 11, 2023 For Syrians, hope lies in the fact that – given time and effort – people outside their country will learn of the deleterious effect of sanctions, will question the justifications given for imposing them, and will see them as …
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