by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 17, 2023 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his plan to return Syrian refugees in Turkey to Aleppo. For many years he has proposed a plan to create a safe zone, or de-escalation zone specifically developed to hold the millions of …
Read More »UN Aid Crosses Govt Controlled Syria to Region Occupied by Al-Qaeda Affiliates
from the News Desk at the Cradle, June 24, 2023 Damascus has long insisted that UN deliveries be coordinated by the government, as the extremists in control of Idlib often seize the aid and resell it at higher prices On 23 June, ten trucks carrying UN humanitarian aid crossed from …
Read More »US Occupiers Lash Out as Syria War Draws to an End
by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on People’s Dispatch, March 27, 2023 The circumstances surrounding the flare-up in Syria between the US occupation forces and pro-Iranian militia groups remain murky. President Biden claims that the US is reacting, but there are signs that it is likely being proactive to create new facts …
Read More »U.S. – Israeli Determination to Keep Syrian People Suffering
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 …
Read More »Syria and Turkey United in Massive 7.8 Earthquake
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, February 6, 2023 Selective empathy. Syria and Turkey suffer massive earthquake. But Western countries only send condolences and aid to Turkey and not Syria (except for the terrorist enclave in Idlib) (Editor) At least 780 are dead in Syria, with another 2,300 injured …
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 »Cholera and US Sanctions Killing Syrian Civilians
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Global Research, September 28, 2022 On September 23, the Al Qaeda-occupied area in Idlib Province reported the first confirmed case of cholera in the last terrorist-controlled area in Syria. The deadly outbreak has claimed 39 lives in Syria, with thousands of suspected cases across the …
Read More »Israel air attack damages Syria’s Aleppo Airport
News from Middle East Monitor, September 2: Israel has intensified strikes on Syrian airports to disrupt Tehran’s increasing use of aerial supply lines to deliver arms to allies in Syria and Lebanon, including Hezbollah, regional diplomatic and intelligence sources told Reuters. Tehran has adopted air transport as a more reliable …
Read More »A Cold Winter Ahead for Europe and Syria
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 24 2022 While the world has sympathy for the plight of Europeans facing a cold winter because of their energy crisis, Syrians have been suffering a lack of energy since 2011. The European energy crisis is based partly on politics, but the …
Read More »Syria suffers under US military occupation
bySteven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 17, 2022 On August 15, an illegal US military base in Syria came under a drone attack. The base is located at Al-Tanf in southern Syria on the Damascus-Baghdad highway. A number of drones were used in the attack, and while some hit …
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