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Eastern Syria

Syrian Mercenaries Fighting Alongside Turkish Army Against PKK in Iraq: Report

from the News Desk, at The Cradle, September 5, 2024 Editor’s Note: I suppose it could qualify as “good” news that Syria’s enemies and hopeful occupiers are busy fighting among themselves at the present.  Not pretty, though; and not so nice for the local residents who mostly don’t support any …

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America’s Syrian Gulag

by Brad Pearce, published on the Libertarian Institute Website, August 1, 2024 This article, which has a US-centric perspective, was published the day before The Cradle published an article saying that 1,000 ISIS prisoners were released from this gulag, causing significant consternation in Iraq, and more or less co-temporal with …

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Syrian Army Shells US Proxies in Deir Ezzor as Tribal Uprising Continues

from the News Desk at The Cradle, published August 8, 2024 US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria have accused Damascus’ General Intelligence Service of being behind the large-scale tribal assault launched against them on Wednesday Syrian army troops shelled positions of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 8 August, responding …

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Arab Tribes Seize Control of US-occupied Syrian Towns in Large-scale Assault

from the News Desk at The Cradle, published August 7, 2024 Editor’s Note: Looks like Syria is now openly engaged in the regional war for sovereignty! A coalition of Syrian Arab tribes seized several towns from US-backed Kurdish forces in the countryside of eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor governorate on 7 …

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Rocket Attack Hits US Occupation Base in Syria’s Conoco Oil Field

from the News Desk, published on The Cradle, July 26, 2024 Rocket salvos hit the US occupation army base at Syria’s largest oil field during the early hours of 27 July, according to local sources who reported the sound of explosions in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor in the …

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Clashes Between National Defense and SDF East of Deir-ez-Zor

The SDF has not issued a statement regarding the events. from Enab Baladi (Opposition Website), published on Syrian Observer, June 21, 2024 Groups of the National Defense militia (auxiliary forces of the Syrian regime) launched attacks on military positions held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) along the Euphrates River in …

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Strategic Setbacks for US, Israel as the Resistance Axis Gains Ground in Syria

by Khalil Nasrallah, published on the Cradle, May 14, 20224 Recent resistance operations in eastern Syria have established new rules of engagement that constrain both Washington and Tel Aviv’s once-untethered freedom to operate in this strategic theater. For several years, the presence of the region’s Axis of Resistance forces in …

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The Looming Collapse: Syrian Economy on the Brink

Source: SYRIA TV (Opposition website), July 21, 2023 The Syrian pound has surpassed the critical threshold of ten thousand against the US dollar, signalling an imminent and potentially more severe collapse in the days to come. According to the recently released 2023 World Bank report, the real GDP of Syria …

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The US Steals Syrian Oil, and the Kurds Sell it to Israel at a Discount

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 23, 2024 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRG) claimed responsibility for missile attacks on an Israeli “spy headquarters.” Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee and four of his family members were killed in the attack on their home on January 16 near the US Consulate in …

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Will Gaza Hasten the Exit of US Troops From Iraq, Syria?

by Khalil Harb, published on The Cradle, December 8, 2o23 By unequivocally supporting Israel’s military assault on Gaza, the US has exposed itself to vulnerabilities across West Asia, particularly in the already volatile Iraqi and Syrian theaters. Far from fostering peace or stability, illegal US troop presence in these areas …

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