by William Van Wagenen, published on The Cradle, November 6, 2023 On 13 September, acclaimed US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed a crucial five-page memo prepared for the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on 20 June, 2013. This document contained details about the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front’s plan to manufacture sarin nerve gas with the …
Read More »French Court Drops Charges Against Jaysh al-Islam Leader, Islam Alloush
by Sowt al-Asima (Opposition Website) published on The Syrian Observer, November 24, 2023 The Paris Court of Appeal has acquitted former Jaysh al-Islam leader Majdi Nehme, also known as Islam Alloush, of the charges related to the abduction of activist Razan Zaitouneh and her colleagues in Eastern Ghouta, Damascus countryside. …
Read More »What prevents Australia from showing empathy to Syrians?
by Susan Dirgham, published on Pearls and Irritations, November 13, 2023 Australian foreign policy makers seem not to realise that the demographic makeup of Australia means increasing numbers of us are connected to victims of wars instigated by the United States. Australians’ support for future US wars cannot be relied …
Read More »The Palestinian Trajedy, Qui Bono?
by Pepe Escobar, published on Mideast Discourse, October 23, 2023 By now it’s fully established who is profiting from the ghastly Palestine tragedy. As it stands we have 3 wins for the Hegemon and 1 win for its aircraft carrier nation in West Asia. First winner is the War Party …
Read More »Turkiye Continues Air Campaign Against US Allies in Syria
From the News Desk at The Cradle, October 9, 2023 The Turkish air force launched a new barrage of attacks in northeast Syria on 9 October, hitting a Kurdish police training center where 20 security personnel, known as Asayish, died and about 50 were wounded. Turkiye reportedly “neutralized” several Kurdish …
Read More »Turkey Attacks U.S. Proxies in Syria
by SSM Editor, October 7, 2023 According to a report from Reuters, the Turkish bombers targeted Kurdish militants in northern Syria killing 58. Turkey is retaliating against a PKK attack on a Turkish military base launched from YPG territory in Northern Syria. Turkish president Erdogan maintains that all YPG militants …
Read More »91 Dead, 277 Injured By a Uyghur Terrorist Attack in Homs, Syria
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, October 6, 2023 October 6, 2023, Latakia, Syria: The Syrian Arab Army has shot down drones targeting the Syrian Military Hospital at Homs today, where terrorists had planned to kill the hospitalized survivors of the massive drone attack the Uyghurs had carried out …
Read More »Wildfires in Syria Used as a Weapon of War
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, July 30, 2023 Wildfires broke out on July 25 in Latakia province in northwest Syria and are still burning amid new fires being started. The fires spread quickly by a sudden unusual wind which whipped up. The whole country, and the adjacent Mediterranean …
Read More »Syrians Find Hope Under Crushing US Sanctions
Aaron Mate and Kate Halpern interview Kevork Almassian and Hekmat Aboukhater, from Useful Idiots Substack, May 25, 2023 From Iraq to Syria to everywhere else the US government attempts regime change, when corporate media tells us what the “voices of the people” are saying, it’s not often that we actually …
Read More »Russia Proposes ‘Normalization Roadmap’ for Syria, Turkiye
From the News Desk at The Cradle, May 10, 2023 A four-way meeting was held in Moscow on 10 May between the foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Turkiye, and Iran to discuss the process of normalization between Ankara and Damascus. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized the importance of establishing …
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