These are the refugees from Nubel and Zahraa on the road. When they arrived in Damascus SSM provided them with food and bedding and a place to stay. On The Road: Scenes of displaced people from the towns of #Nubul and #Zahraa north of #Aleppo in the city of #Al-Safira …
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Israel’s Calculus in Syria: Exploit Anarchy for Strategic Dominance
by Khalil Nasrallah, published on The Cradle, December 16, 2024 In its unobstructed territorial grab and destruction of Syria’s military infrastructure, Tel Aviv hopes to either expand its borders into a newly partitioned Syria, or to use its gains as negotiating chips in a grand bargain for regional primacy. Thirteen …
Read More »HTS Officials Order Palestinian Resistance Factions to Disarm, Close Bases in Syria: Report
from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 13, 2024 The new rulers in Damascus are taking actions to prevent the Palestinians from defending themselves or resisting Israel Representatives from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the new ruling extremist organization in Damascus, informed the representatives of the Palestinian factions in Syria …
Read More »The Fall of the Keystone in the Axis of Resistance
by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, December 16, 2024 For most of the time since its 1946 independence from France, Syria has resisted all attempts to make it a vassal state. It has paid dearly, as a target of subversion, war, occupation and the most onerous economic sanctions in …
Read More »No Quick Solution to EU Migration Crisis as Syrian Refugees Refuse to Return
by Patrick Poppel, published on InfoBRICS.com, December 12, 2024 Europe reaps what it sows. ~jb Initially, Austria was against Bulgaria and Romania joining the Schengen area because they were afraid that many migrants would come to the Alpine republic via these countries. But that’s different now. Austria drops its veto …
Read More »US Lawmakers Urge White House to Enact ‘Syria Sanctions Relief’: Report
from the News Desk of The Cradle, December 12, 2024 Two members of the US Congress are urging the White House to ease “some sanctions” on Syria to help its economy in the wake of the takeover of the country by extremist armed groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). …
Read More »Ukraine Provided HTS Extremists With 150 Drones Ahead of Syria Takeover
from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 11, 2024 The Ukrainian government provided fighters from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) extremist armed group with “about 150 first-person-view drones” and at least 20 experienced drone operators in the lead-up to the flash offensive that ended with the fall of the …
Read More »UNAC Statement On the Overthrow of the Syrian Government
UNAC Statement, December 10, 2024 This is a moment to salute and remember the martyrs and resistance fighters in Syria, who for decades and against all odds held firm against U.S. imperialist domination. Because imperialism has no solutions the struggle will regroup and break forth again and each time at …
Read More »Eye-Witness Syria: The Last 12 Days
by Rick Sterling, published on the LA Progressive, December 10, 2023 My friend lives in Damascus. I will call him Qusay to protect his identity. Qusay was born and grew up in Aleppo and still has family there. He is a high-level translator and university professor. From his family, he …
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