by Alastair Crooke, published on Al Mayadeen, April 8, 2023 It is perhaps fitting that in the bloody tangle of US policy triggered by Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995, and the elevation of Benjamin Netanyahu to the premiership in its wake, Syria was first and foremost the ‘head’ to this …
Read More »Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye: Truces, Not Peace
by Hassan Illiak, published on The Cradle, April 4, 2023 The mid-March Moscow summit between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was notable for being publicized in advance. Since the outbreak of the Syrian war, Assad’s foreign visits have not been publicly revealed until after they …
Read More »If Not Oil, Then Antiquities; US Looting of Syrian Wealth Continues
from Al Mayadeen, April 4, 2023 The areas where the US occupation forces are deployed in cooperation with US-backed SDF militia dealt with widespread looting of Syrian archaeological sites in the war-torn country’s Jazira region, as well as the northern province of Raqqa, a new report by Syria’s news agency …
Read More »Why was British ISIS Member ‘Jihadi George’ Tried in a US Court?
by William Van Wagenen, published on The Cradle, February 2, 2023 In January 2023, reports emerged that Alexanda Kotey, known as “Jihadi George” and one of the four British ISIS members collectively known as the “Beatles,” had disappeared from the custody of the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In 2022, …
Read More »On Israeli Strikes on Syria (Video)
produced PressTV, published on Spotlight, April 6, 2023 A conversation with Marzieh Hashemi in Tehran, Ken Stone in Hamilton Canada, and Massoud Shadjareh in London Israel continues to carry out attacks on Syrian territory. Within the last week alone, Tel Aviv has targeted Syria at least four times, killing five …
Read More »Bridge of Peace and Prosperity Proposed from the Arab World to Syria
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, April 4, 2023 Since the devastating earthquake a couple of months ago, Syria has been embraced by the other nations in the region. The “Global West”, led by the U.S., does not want normalization with Damascus, but their neighbors do. This is very …
Read More »Syrian Deputy FM: Turkish Withdrawal Condition for Reconciliation
from The News Desk at The Cradle, April 4, 2023 Dr. Ayman Sousan, Syrian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, reiterated Syria’s demand that Turkiye announces a full withdrawal of all its forces from Syrian territory and then follow through with such a withdrawal if it wishes to re-establish …
Read More »Syria Episode Shows How Contractors Still Used to Fight America’s Wars
by Ted Galen Carpenter, published on Responsible Statecraft, March 31, 2023 It’s become increasingly apparent that official data on U.S. military personnel deployed in so-called war zones overseas may be understating the actual number. Likewise, active duty military casualties account for only a portion of the American deaths suffered in …
Read More »US Resumes Theft of Syrian Oil Hours After Merciless Attack on Occupation Bases
from the News Desk at The Cradle, published March 25, 2023 On 25 March, the US army smuggled at least 80 fuel tankers loaded with hundreds of tons of stolen Syrian oil from the country’s resource-rich Jazira region to their bases in Iraq. The tanker trucks were taken out of …
Read More »US Occupiers Lash Out as Syria War Draws to an End
by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on People’s Dispatch, March 27, 2023 The circumstances surrounding the flare-up in Syria between the US occupation forces and pro-Iranian militia groups remain murky. President Biden claims that the US is reacting, but there are signs that it is likely being proactive to create new facts …
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