Terrorist attacks

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, March 9, 2023 Israel attacked the Aleppo International Airport in northwest Syria on March 7 and caused the international humanitarian aid for the earthquake victims to be canceled due to the damages of the airstrike. While the world is watching the suffering of …

from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, February 3, 2023 In March 2019, former US President Donald Trump startled Washington’s war establishment by announcing that the mission of “eliminating terrorism” had been accomplished in Syria. Seven months later, Trump solidified his claims by celebrating the assassination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr …

by William Wagenen, published on The Cradle, February 2, 2023 The decision to try one of the so-called “Beatles” ISIS members in the US was to conceal his previous links to British intelligence and his role in their regime-change efforts in Syria. In January 2023, reports emerged that Alexanda Kotey, …

from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, January 3, 2023 Abu Mohammed al-Julani, the chief of the Idlib-based extremist group in northern Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – formerly known as the Al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front – made a video statement on 2 January rejecting the prospect of Russian-mediated talks between …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 30, 2022 Ten workers were killed on 30 December in an attack that reportedly wounded four others in the Al-Taim oilfield in Syria’s eastern city of Deir Ezzor, Syrian state media reported. “Two others have been wounded in a terrorist attack that …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, published November 21, 2022 The Russian authorities have announced that members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) extremist militant group are storing various “types of weapons at two refugee camps in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, amid reports that the extremists are also …

By: Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The US-employed terrorists, Maghawir al-Thawra (MaT), have turned against their partners, the US Army, stationed at al-Tanf base in the eastern Syrian desert.  On October 4, the terrorists, who are employed as mercenaries by the US military, attempted to break out of the illegal US …

from PressTV, October 27, 2022 As part of the US military’s systematic smuggling of basic commodities out of Syria, a convoy of nearly two dozen US military trucks and tankers has carried tons of grain and crude oil from the northeastern province of Hasakah to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern …

by William Wagenen, published on The Cradle,  September 12, 2022 This is an interesting investigative piece.  I know it answers some questions I had. [Ed] In 2005, US neoconservatives centered around then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s office began collaborating with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, defected former Syrian Vice President Abd …

by William Van Wagenen, published on The Cradle, September 2, 2022 In 2017, US and allied Kurdish forces bombarded the city of Raqqa, the bastion of ISIS in Syria and the de-facto capital of the terror group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Concurrent to this, US forces conducted massive air strikes on the …