Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 20, 2023 In November 2022, Saudi Arabia formally changed its stance on Syria. Saudi Arabia is the political powerhouse of the Middle East, and often shares positions on foreign policy and international issues with the UAE, which has previously re-opened their embassy …

by Victor Mikhin, published on New Eastern Outlook, January 18, 2023 Over the past decade, Turkish foreign policy has faced serious difficulties, and the crisis unleashed by the US and its allies in Syria has been the main reason for this. The Syrian crisis has had and continues to have several …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 20, 2023 Many Syrians may have left as refugees, but the country seems very crowded.  The US-NATO attack on Syria for regime change began in 2011 and brought in outside actors: Iran, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the US. The foreign …

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)