News from The Cradle, August 11, 2024 Syria, on 10 August, called on the United States to stop bombing Syrians, stop supporting Kurdish “separatist militias,” and immediately withdraw from Syrian territory. A statement issued by the Syrian Foreign Ministry said: “US warplanes, with the support of the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) militia, …
Read More »The Role of Turkey and Idlib in the Moscow Attack
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 …
Read More »The US Steals Syrian Oil, and the Kurds Sell it to Israel at a Discount
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 23, 2024 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRG) claimed responsibility for missile attacks on an Israeli “spy headquarters.” Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee and four of his family members were killed in the attack on their home on January 16 near the US Consulate in …
Read More »Syria Today – US Confirms Airstrikes on IRGC Positions in Syria; Gaza War to Consolidate US Foothold in Syria
Daily Brief, published on The Syrian Observer, November 24, 2923 So, as you will see, I’m not a big fan of this news report, BUT it does serve the purpose of noting that pretty much all hell is breaking loose in the U.S, Occupied region of Syria, a point worthy …
Read More »Syrian Kurds in an Increasingly Precarious Position
by Gregory Aftandilian, published on The Arab Center, Washington D.C., October 17, 2023 The source of this article appears to be a U.S. lobbying organization. Some of what they say is U.S, propaganda. However, they reflect the true vulnerability of the Kurdish SDF leadership in North Eastern Syria. [editor] Syrian …
Read More »Turkiye Continues Air Campaign Against US Allies in Syria
From the News Desk at The Cradle, October 9, 2023 The Turkish air force launched a new barrage of attacks in northeast Syria on 9 October, hitting a Kurdish police training center where 20 security personnel, known as Asayish, died and about 50 were wounded. Turkiye reportedly “neutralized” several Kurdish …
Read More »Turkish Demands to Sweden Actually a Message to US about Kurdish rebels
by Uriel Araujo, published on InfoBRICS, February 10, 2023 The Turkish authorities in Ankara have been blocking Stockholm’s bid to join NATO allegedly over the Nordic country’s policies regarding Kurdish exile groups. On January 23, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself said Sweden should not expect any “goodwill” from his …
Read More »The Terrorism Pretext: US-ISIS-Kurdish Nexus Preserves Occupation of Syria
from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, February 3, 2023 In March 2019, former US President Donald Trump startled Washington’s war establishment by announcing that the mission of “eliminating terrorism” had been accomplished in Syria. Seven months later, Trump solidified his claims by celebrating the assassination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr …
Read More »Russia Consolidates Middle East in Mediterranean
by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, December 31, 2022 The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another …
Read More »Turkey Agrees to Withdraw Troops from Syria: Syrian Media
News from Al Manar, December 30, 2022 Turkey has agreed to a complete pull-out of its troops from Syria after a recent meeting between defense ministers of Russia, Turkiye and Syria in Moscow, according to a report published in Syrian media. The Arabic-language al-Watan newspaper said in a Friday report …
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