News from Al Manar, December 30, 2022 Turkey has agreed to a complete pull-out of its troops from Syria after a recent meeting between defense ministers of Russia, Turkiye and Syria in Moscow, according to a report published in Syrian media. The Arabic-language al-Watan newspaper said in a Friday report …
Read More »Ankara Willing to Withdraw From Syria if ‘Stability’ is Reached: Turkish FM
from the Newsdesk at The Cradle, December 30, 2022 Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told media on 29 December that Ankara is willing to withdraw from the territory it occupies in northern Syria and hand it over to Damascus in the event that “political stability” is reached. Cavusoglu’s comments came …
Read More »Turkish Occupation Armored Vehicle Runs over Girl and Woman in Aleppo Countryside
News from Al Manar, December 6, 2022 A girl and her grandmother died after being run over by a military armored vehicle affiliated with Turkish occupation forces in the occupied city of Atarib, in Aleppo western countryside. Local and media sources stated that a military armored vehicle of the Turkish …
Read More »Turkish attacks on SDF in northern Syria disrupt US oil smuggling
From the Newsdesk at The Cradle, December 7, 2022 Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on 7 December that the US-backed Kurdish militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has suffered immensely in the latest wave of Turkish airstrikes on northern Syria. Despite the gradual Turkish change of plans away from a …
Read More »International Oil Assets Reported Hit as Turkey Strikes US/SDF Occupied Region of Syria
by Amberin Zaman, published on Al Monitor, December 2, 2022 Turkey’s airstrikes destroyed western controlled property, but it also injured Syrian people. Moreover, the Syrian government takes the stance that this property, which is theirs, will eventually be restored to them, and they will have to repair it. The US …
Read More »Syria Refused Turkiye’s Request to Hold a Meeting Between Erdogan and Assad
from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 6, 2022 On 6 December, Orhan Miroglu, the head of the Justice and Development Party, reported that Damascus turned down Ankara’s proposal to set up a meeting between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Al-Mayadeen news reported. On …
Read More »Sousan: Turkish Occupation Pretexts to Justify Syria Policy Deceives Nobody
from SANA, published on The Syrian Observer, November 24, 2022 Dr. Ayman Sousan, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, head of the Syrian Arab Republic delegation to the 19th International Meeting in Astana Format on Syria, said on Wednesday that the world has witnessed further escalation due to the …
Read More »Istanbul Terror Attack May Prompt Turkish Invasion and Deportations
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 18, 2022 On November 13, a blast ripped through Istiklal street, a busy pedestrian area in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul. The explosion killed six people and wounded 81 at about 4:30 pm local time. Among the dead were Arzu Ozsoy and …
Read More »Turkey Prepares for Military Operation Against Kurds After Istanbul Blast
by Ahmed Adel, published on InfoBRICS, November 16, 2022 The Turkish armed forces may launch an operation in northern Syria as the order for the recent terrorist attack in Istanbul was allegedly given from the Kurdish-majority city of Kobani. The November 13 explosion on the Istiklal pedestrian street in central …
Read More »On the Barriers to Turkish-Syrian Rapprochement, an Interview with Alptekin Dursunoğlu
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Global Research, October 19, 2022 This is a very interesting article which highlights some of the issues that make it difficult to end the Syrian war and move forward. It is important to think about these issues when you look at bringing peace to the …
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