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by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, March 25, 2024 On the Americans having their cake and eating it too in Syria.  [jb] The road to the Crocus Center in Moscow began in Turkey, as one of the attackers confessed who killed 143 concert goers and injured more than 150 …

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 …

Phil Taylor speaks with Zafar Bangash on The Taylor Report: (The discussion about Syria and Turkey begins at 6:20)

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 …

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 …

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 …

by Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, July 20, 2022 The Tehran summit uniting Iran-Russia-Turkey was a fascinating affair in more ways than one. Ostensibly about the Astana peace process in Syria, launched in 2017, the summit joint statement duly noted that Iran, Russia and (recently rebranded) Turkiye will continue, …

by Steven Sahiounie and Basma Qaddour, published on Mideast Discourse, July 11, 2022 The battlefields in Syria are quiet, but the conflict is far from resolution.  Despite the lack of focus on Syria by the US, EU and NATO, there are still developments in the region and among the various …

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 …