from the News Desk at The Cradle, April 25, 2023 The defense ministers of Syria, Turkiye, Russia, and Iran held a four-way meeting in Moscow on 25 April in order to continue negotiations regarding an eventual normalization of ties between the Syrian and Turkish governments. The meeting “was held in …
Read More »Turkish Army Begins Plans for 30 km ‘Security Belt’ in Syria’s North
from the News Desk, The Cradle, April 25, 2023 Turkish military forces in northern Syria were forced to temporarily suspend trench-digging operations over the past few days near the border wall between the two countries after massive protests by locals in the city of Ras al-Ain and a number of …
Read More »Syria Comes in From the Cold
by Scott Ritter, published on Consortium News, April 24, 2023 While the world continues to come to grips with the reality — and consequences — of the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians. …
Read More »Untangling Syria’s Devastating War?
by Helena Cobban, published on Globalities, April 21, 2023 Suddenly, within the past few weeks, there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity that provides real hope that the civil war that’s devastated Syria for 12 years may be headed toward a negotiated peace and a chance for rebuilding. These …
Read More »If Not Oil, Then Antiquities; US Looting of Syrian Wealth Continues
from Al Mayadeen, April 4, 2023 The areas where the US occupation forces are deployed in cooperation with US-backed SDF militia dealt with widespread looting of Syrian archaeological sites in the war-torn country’s Jazira region, as well as the northern province of Raqqa, a new report by Syria’s news agency …
Read More »On Israeli Strikes on Syria (Video)
produced PressTV, published on Spotlight, April 6, 2023 A conversation with Marzieh Hashemi in Tehran, Ken Stone in Hamilton Canada, and Massoud Shadjareh in London Israel continues to carry out attacks on Syrian territory. Within the last week alone, Tel Aviv has targeted Syria at least four times, killing five …
Read More »Syrian Deputy FM: Turkish Withdrawal Condition for Reconciliation
from The News Desk at The Cradle, April 4, 2023 Dr. Ayman Sousan, Syrian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, reiterated Syria’s demand that Turkiye announces a full withdrawal of all its forces from Syrian territory and then follow through with such a withdrawal if it wishes to re-establish …
Read More »A US-Led World War Is Already Underway, Syrian President Warns
from TeleSUR English, March 16, 2023 Al-Asad stressed that this war is not been fought through traditional means since the existence of nuclear weapons force the U.S. to restrict it to certain territories. On Wednesday, Syria’s President Bashar Al-Asad stated that terrorists in his country and the Ukrainian neo-Nazi movements are …
Read More »Syria Weighs Participation in Summit With Turkiye, Iran, Russia
from the News Desk at The Cradle, March 14, 2023 Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Ayman Sousan stated that Syria’s participation in a possible meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of Turkiye, Syria, Iran, and Russia is still “under discussion.” Al-Mayadeen reports that Sousan made the comments in an exclusive statement …
Read More »Israeli Attack on Aleppo is Crime Against Humanity: Iran
News on TeleSUR English, March 7, 2023 So far this year, Israel has attacked Syrian territory on at least four occasions. On Tuesday, the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani strongly condemned an Israeli attack on Syria’s Aleppo International Airport as a “crime against humanity.” Israel targeted the civil airport, …
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