U.S. Occupation

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 …

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 …

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 …