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from the Newsdesk at The Cradle, December 30, 2022 Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told media on 29 December that Ankara is willing to withdraw from the territory it occupies in northern Syria and hand it over to Damascus in the event that “political stability” is reached. Cavusoglu’s comments came …

News from Al Manar, December 6, 2022 A girl and her grandmother died after being run over by a military armored vehicle affiliated with Turkish occupation forces in the occupied city of Atarib, in Aleppo western countryside. Local and media sources stated that a military armored vehicle of the Turkish …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, December 15, 2022 Damascus is now bitterly cold and is soon to be blanketed with snow. About 12 million Syrians are facing a deadly winter without heating fuel, gasoline for transportation, and dark houses each evening without electricity. Aleppo, Homs, and Hama are …

by Firas al-Shoufi, published on The Cradle, December 21, 2022 On 15 December, a bill introduced by US lawmakers into the 2023 Department of Defense budget to “Combat the Syrian Regime’s Drug Trade,” passed the Senate, with the support of 83 senators and the opposition of 11. The Countering Assad’s …

On December 10, Human Rights Day, the Sanctions Kill Coalition, in conjunction with the United National Antiwar Coalition, held a webinar to launch their new book, Sanctions Kill, a Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy.  The speakers, …., were authors of different chapters of the book.    The video below begins …

From the Newsdesk at The Cradle, December 7, 2022 Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on 7 December that the US-backed Kurdish militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has suffered immensely in the latest wave of Turkish airstrikes on northern Syria. Despite the gradual Turkish change of plans away from a …

by Amberin Zaman, published on Al Monitor,  December 2, 2022 Turkey’s airstrikes destroyed western controlled property, but it also injured Syrian people.  Moreover, the Syrian government takes the stance that this property, which is theirs, will eventually be restored to them, and they will have to repair it.  The US …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 6, 2022 On 6 December, Orhan Miroglu, the head of the Justice and Development Party, reported that Damascus turned down Ankara’s proposal to set up a meeting between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Al-Mayadeen news reported. On …

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on The Cradle, November 28, 2022 The series of airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Syria by Turkish jets in the past week come amid heightened concerns over Ankara’s threat to launch a ground operation. Such actions are not without precedent, yet have thus far achieved little …