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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 …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 27, 2022 The Kurds in northeastern Syria have established their semi-autonomous administration which they call “Rojava”. They are now under threat of an increased invasion and occupation by Turkish ground troops, which could end in ethnic cleansing and mass casualties. Turkish President …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, published November 21, 2022 The Russian authorities have announced that members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) extremist militant group are storing various “types of weapons at two refugee camps in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, amid reports that the extremists are also …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 18, 2022 On November 13, a blast ripped through Istiklal street, a busy pedestrian area in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul.  The explosion killed six people and wounded 81 at about 4:30 pm local time. Among the dead were Arzu Ozsoy and …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, November 16, 2022 According to local reports, a US military convoy was forced to return to its illegal military base in Syria on 16 November after being expelled by local Syrians in Qamishli. A video posted on the social media platform Twitter shows …

Rania Khalek conducted this very informative interview for Breakthrough News on November 17.  She talks with Alena Douhan about her recent trip to Syria and her observations of the effect of the U.S.’ so called ‘Caesar Sanctions’ on the Syrian people and the Syrian Arab Republic as a nation.  These …