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 …
Read More »Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?
by William Van Wangenen, published on the Libertarian Institute Website, August 3, 2022 In the mainstream view, the armed groups fighting the Syrian government since 2011, collectively known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), were part of a Syrian revolution that represented the Syrian people. At the same time, the …
Read More »Turkish Supported Terrorists in Idlib Attack Church with Deaths and Injuries
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, July 25, 2022 The Hagia Sophia Church in Al-Suqaylabiyah, Syria was attacked by Radical Islamic terrorists using a drone which was launched from the terrorist controlled enclave of Idlib on July 24. Two persons were killed while 12 others were wounded. The Syrian …
Read More »Aleppo Thermal Power Plant Resumes Operation After 10 Years
Newsdesk @ The Cradle, June 26, 2022 The fifth unit in Aleppo’s thermal power plant, located in the eastern countryside of the Syrian governorate, resumed operations on a trial basis earlier this week, due to repairs made by the Iranian turbine engineering and manufacturing company, Mapna. Syrian Minister of Electricity …
Read More »Syrians Live in Turkey Without Dignity or Rights
by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, June 14, 2022 Suleyman Soylu, Turkish Interior Minister, announced on Saturday new measures affecting Syrians living in Turkey. Firstly, Ankara has banned all Syrians from visiting their relatives in Syria during the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which will take place in …
Read More »Paris conference on Syria: US, European allies renew push for regime-change
13 Jan 2014, Alex Lantier Top US and European diplomats assembled Sunday in Paris for a two-day meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group, renewing the push for regime-change in Damascus. The talks came amid reports that US officials are preparing renewed shipments of supplies to Syrian Islamist opposition …
Read More »