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ISIS Conducts New Attack on Army Positions in Central Syria

from the Newsdesk at The Cradle, November 8, 2023 Local reports say at least 30 Syrian army personnel were killed during an ISIS attack on 8 November after gunmen opened fire on the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allies in the National Defense Force in the Homs-Hama-Raqqa triangle.  “Several militants …

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Syrian Citizens Expel US Occupation Army Convoy, Set Its Flags Ablaze

News from Al Mayadeen, August 26, 2023 Citizens in eastern Syria, with the support of a Syrian army checkpoint, managed to repel a convoy of US occupation military vehicles and prevent them from entering their village. The villagers, including children and local residents, formed a human barrier in front of …

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Syria Episode Shows How Contractors Still Used to Fight America’s Wars

by Ted Galen Carpenter, published on Responsible Statecraft, March 31, 2023 It’s become increasingly apparent that official data on U.S. military personnel deployed in so-called war zones overseas may be understating the actual number. Likewise, active duty military casualties account for only a portion of the American deaths suffered in …

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US Resumes Theft of Syrian Oil Hours After Merciless Attack on Occupation Bases

from the News Desk at The Cradle, published March 25, 2023 On 25 March, the US army smuggled at least 80 fuel tankers loaded with hundreds of tons of stolen Syrian oil from the country’s resource-rich Jazira region to their bases in Iraq. The tanker trucks were taken out of …

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Three Major Attacks in Syria in 24 Hours

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 27, 2022 On August 24, the US military in Syria carried out a retaliatory airstrike on a militia that the US claims previously attacked the Al Tanf base on August 15. US F-15 and F-16 jets dropped guided bombs on nine ammunition …

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Damascus and the Kurds Align Militarily to Face the Turkish Threat

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, July 19, 2022 The Kurds need Syrian help at the moment. If the SDF can move away from the Americans and join with their brothers in the SAA the U.S. occupation will end.  Only time will tell.  [editor] The Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) …

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Moscow Reaffirms Support for Damascus

from The Cradle, May 27, 2022 For the first time since the start of the war in Syria, Russian forces carried out airstrikes against positions held by Turkish-backed armed groups on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early hours of 27 May. According to local reports, the Russian Air Force attacked …

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Tim Anderson Exposes the Dirty War on Syria (interview)

May 26, 2016, Corbett Report Today we talk to Dr. Tim Anderson of the University of Sydney about his new book, “The Dirty War on Syria: Washington, Regime Change and Resistance.” From the Houla hoax to the chemical weapons false flag, Dr. Anderson rips the mask from the lies that …

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How narratives killed the Syrian people

Mar 23, 2016, RT.com -Sharmine Narwani [related: Syria: The hidden massacre, May 7, 2014, RT.com] On March 23, 2011, at the very start of what we now call the ‘Syrian conflict,’ two young men – Sa’er Yahya Merhej and Habeel Anis Dayoub – were gunned down in the southern Syrian …

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Liberated Palmyra: a photo essay by Prof. Tim Anderson

“Palmyra’s citadel. The Syrian Army and Russian air power made great efforts to avoid historic sites, but the citadel did suffer some damage in the fierce fighting,, as DAESH tried to seize that higher ground.” -Professor Tim Anderson   April 16, 2016, Professor Tim Anderson [see: Why Palmyra, Recently Liberated, …

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