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The Russian military described the US scheme as nothing less than “international state banditism.” MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian Defense Ministry published satellite intelligence images proving that oil from Syria was sent abroad under the guard of US servicemen before and after the defeat of the Daesh terrorists, Russian Defense …

A State Department official broke a pencil and screamed at the Syrian Kurdish delegation during a dramatic breakdown of relations between the United States and the Syrian Kurds. The high-tension moment in September highlights the diplomatic problems plaguing the Trump administration, which has been trying to broker a cease-fire agreement …

The following article is republished from Global Research: Syrian Ministry of Education managed to restore and rehabilitate 1554 schools and set the plans to rehabilitate 1000 other schools achieving 90% of the current plan thus far. 10,000 teaching jobs to be added in a month from now. In a review …

We are proud to report that the Syria Solidarity Movement was able to sponsor 22 delegates from Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, South Africa, Palestine, Lebanon, the US, Australia, and the UK to attend an international trade union solidarity conference in Damascus, Syria, September 8-9, 2019.  These included Ajamu Baraka, …

Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War was interviewed on RT International on the breaking news of a (partial) US withdrawal from Syria in the face of an illegal Turkish invasion and the throwing of the Kurdish separatists under the bus:  

Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War was interviewed on Press TV about the stated U.S. withdrawal from Syria and the expanded Turkish invasion of Syria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaJ2czohcSY  

On October 7, The Taylor Report, a weekly radio show on CUIT 89.5 in Toronto, interviewed Zafar Bangash, editor of Crescent International, about Trump’s dramatic announcement of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria. In addition, Phil questions Bangash about the street demonstrations and rioting in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad. According to …

The following article, by Yasemin Zahra, a member of the delegation to the trade union conference in Syria, is republished from U.S. Labor Against the War: Why Syria? Our obligation to building the international working class is seldom the easy thing to do, especially in a time of open economic …

Following his participation in the Third International Trade Union Forum conference in Damascus, organized by Syria’s General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) and supported by International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (ICATU) and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), Brother Donald Lafleur was put on administrative leave from his duties as Executive Vice-President …

The following article, by Roger Harris, is republished here from Mint Press News: Welcome to your second country, that was the greeting our Syrian hosts gave us when we arrived for the International Trade Union Forum for “solidarity with the workers and people of Syria against the economic blockade, imperialist …