by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, May 3, 20223 On 4 April, representatives from Syria, Turkiye, Iran, and Russia met for five hours in Moscow to address outstanding issues between Damascus and Ankara in their efforts to reinstate relations. Among the items under discussion were the Turkish …
Read More »Syrian-Iranian Relations Stable Despite Political and Security Storms That Hit the Region
by Editor, published on Mideast Discourse, May 3, 2023 President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday received Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who has arrived in Syria, heading a large ministerial delegation on a two-day visit to Syria. During the plenary talks with the Iranian President, President Bashar al-Assad said “the Syrian-Iranian relations …
Read More »Syria Condemns ‘Harmful’ EU Sanctions
from The NewsDesk at The Cradle, April 25, 2023 Damascus condemned the European Union’s decision to strengthen its “unilateral measures” against Syria, saying the bloc was repeating its lies by claiming that sanctions on Syria do not hinder the provision of humanitarian aid, RT Arabic reported on 25 April. An …
Read More »The Leaked Plan to Attack Russians in Syria Revealed
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, April 27, 2023 Another hair brained scheme from the Zelenski-Biden course. I have long argued that U.S. Turkish occupation of Syria is enough to consider Syria an additional front to the U.S. proxy war on Russia, with the front face in Ukraine. …
Read More »Withdraw Foreign Forces From Syria, Arab States Call
by The CounterCurrents Collective, published on CounterCurrents, May 2, 2023 The foreign ministers of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq said on Monday after meeting in Amman said the government in Damascus should re-establish the rule of law on all of Syria’s territory, ending the presence of foreign armed …
Read More »Unknown Militants Attack Checkpoint Near US Base in Syria
from The News Desk at The Cradle, April 25, 2023 Unknown persons attacked a military checkpoint protecting the main road leading to the Al-Omar oil field, where one of the most prominent US bases in occupied eastern Syria is located, Sputnik reported on 25 April. Local sources confirmed to Sputnik …
Read More »‘Sarin Doesn’t Slice Throats’: The 2013 Ghouta Massacre Revisited
by William Van Wagenen, published on The Libertarian Institute, June 12, 2022 “Germ and chemical weapons may often be weak in their battlefield applications but they are always strong in their emotiveness. Accusations of association with them have for centuries, even millennia, been used by well-intentioned as well as unscrupulous …
Read More »Turkiye-Syria Talks Resume As Moscow Hosts Four-Way Defense Meeting
from the News Desk at The Cradle, April 25, 2023 The defense ministers of Syria, Turkiye, Russia, and Iran held a four-way meeting in Moscow on 25 April in order to continue negotiations regarding an eventual normalization of ties between the Syrian and Turkish governments. The meeting “was held in …
Read More »Turkish Army Begins Plans for 30 km ‘Security Belt’ in Syria’s North
from the News Desk, The Cradle, April 25, 2023 Turkish military forces in northern Syria were forced to temporarily suspend trench-digging operations over the past few days near the border wall between the two countries after massive protests by locals in the city of Ras al-Ain and a number of …
Read More »Syria Comes in From the Cold
by Scott Ritter, published on Consortium News, April 24, 2023 While the world continues to come to grips with the reality — and consequences — of the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians. …
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