by Kit Klarenberg, published on The Cradle,  December 27, 2022 The Cradle has previously deconstructed the Pentagon’s online bot and troll operations targeting Iran. These wide-ranging efforts, over many years, sought to destabilize the Iranian government by disseminating and inciting negative sentiment against it, on a variety of social media platforms. …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, January 12, 2023 On 12 January, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with the special envoy of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss Moscow’s proposal to establish bilateral talks between Damascus and Ankara; however, Assad remarked that any talks between the two states …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, January 13, 2023 Note the date of the header image on this article.  In February of 2011, when the smiling and relaxed Turkish President met with Bashar Assad, he was already building camps for the families of insurgents expected to flee from Syria …

by Fra Hughes, January 13, 2023 It’s hard to believe the war on Syria started 12 years ago in 2011. Not so hard to believe perhaps for the people living under the hardships they are enduring for a foreign inspired, funded, trained and armed regime change operation, culminating in the …

by Ragip Soylu, Levent Kemal, published on Middle East Eye, January 2, 2023 This article gives one an idea of just how difficult this negotiation will be.  At the same time, Ankara is in need of a ‘win’ in the short term, while Damascus is more concerned with long restoration …

by Dave DeCamp, published on Antiwar.com, January 4, 2023 The State Department on Tuesday said that the US opposes other countries normalizing with the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad following high-level talks between Syria and Turkey. The defense ministers of Syria and Turkey met in Moscow at the end …

Phil Taylor speaks with Zafar Bangash on The Taylor Report: (The discussion about Syria and Turkey begins at 6:20)

from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, January 3, 2023 Abu Mohammed al-Julani, the chief of the Idlib-based extremist group in northern Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – formerly known as the Al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front – made a video statement on 2 January rejecting the prospect of Russian-mediated talks between …

by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on  Indian Punchline, December 31, 2022 The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another …