U.S. Occupation

from The News Desk at The Cradle, June 10, 2023 The US occupation army is reportedly in a heightened state of alert over possible attacks by resistance groups The US occupation army conducted defensive drills on 9 June using live ammunition in the vicinity of their base in the oil …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, June 11, 2023 According to a report from the Syrian state-run news agency SANA, the US forces carried out an airdrop operation in Syria’s northern Hasakah province in the town of al-Shadadi on 11 June, killing one civilian and injuring several others. According to local …

from The News Desk at The Cradle, May 25, 2023 Washington admitted on 31 May it has sent the High Mobile Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) to Syria, but denied Turkish media reports that alleged the systems are destined for Kurdish militants Ankara has labeled “terrorists.” “Yes, there are HIMARS in …

by Hekmat Aboukhater, published on The Grayzone, May 16, 2023 Syrian-American journalist Hekmat Aboukhater traveled across Homs, Lattakia, Tartous, and Aleppo this April, reporting for The Grayzone on the devastating impact of Western economic sanctions on average Syrians. Throughout 2023, a series of anti-Syrian refugee bills, a failing economy, and …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, May 9, 2023 On 8 May, US President Joe Biden signed a new one-year extension for the “national emergency” declared concerning Syria, just one day after the Arab League approved Damascus’ reentry to the bloc despite Washington’s objections. Initially signed in 2004 by …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, April 27, 2023 Another hair brained scheme from the Zelenski-Biden course.  I have long argued that U.S. Turkish occupation of Syria is enough to consider Syria an additional front to the U.S. proxy war on Russia, with the front face in Ukraine.   …

from The News Desk at The Cradle, April 25, 2023 Unknown persons attacked a military checkpoint protecting the main road leading to the Al-Omar oil field, where one of the most prominent US bases in occupied eastern Syria is located, Sputnik reported on 25 April. Local sources confirmed to Sputnik …

from The News Desk at The Cradle, April 22, 2023 The US occupation forces continue to steal and loot Syrian wealth, transporting dozens of tankers loaded with stolen oil from the northeast Jazeera region across the border and into Iraqi territory in recent days, Syrian state media SANA reported on …

by Alastair Crooke, published on Al Mayadeen, April 8, 2023 It is perhaps fitting that in the bloody tangle of US policy triggered by Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995, and the elevation of Benjamin Netanyahu to the premiership in its wake, Syria was first and foremost the ‘head’ to this …