from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, January 3, 2023 Abu Mohammed al-Julani, the chief of the Idlib-based extremist group in northern Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – formerly known as the Al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front – made a video statement on 2 January rejecting the prospect of Russian-mediated talks between …
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 »Ankara Willing to Withdraw From Syria if ‘Stability’ is Reached: Turkish FM
from the Newsdesk at The Cradle, December 30, 2022 Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told media on 29 December that Ankara is willing to withdraw from the territory it occupies in northern Syria and hand it over to Damascus in the event that “political stability” is reached. Cavusoglu’s comments came …
Read More »US-Turkiye Brinkmanship Won’t Reach a Point of No Return
by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on The Cradle, November 28, 2022 The series of airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Syria by Turkish jets in the past week come amid heightened concerns over Ankara’s threat to launch a ground operation. Such actions are not without precedent, yet have thus far achieved little …
Read More »Shifting Sands in Idlib and an Imminent Astana Format Meeting
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 10, 2022 The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russian warplanes shelled positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, on November 6 in Idlib province. Some of the terrorists killed were: Abdul Minam Muhati, Radwan Hussain Muhayer, Abu …
Read More »US army loots new batch of Syrian oil as fuel crisis deepens
News Desk at The Cradle, October 8, 2022 US military forces occupying Syria looted a new batch of oil on 7 October from the country’s Jazira region, local media reported. According to local sources in the Al-Yarubiyah countryside, “a convoy of 50 tankers belonging to the American occupation, loaded with …
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 »Washington Steals over 80 Percent of Syria’s Oil Output Per Day
From the News Desk at The Cradle, August 2022 The Syrian Oil Ministry released a statement on 9 August accusing US forces occupying Syria of being responsible for the theft of most of the country’s oil. “The amount of oil production during the first half of 2022 amounted to some …
Read More »The Imperialists’ and Proxies’ War Against Syria
by Kim Petersen, published on Countercurrents, January 28, 2022 Review of World War in Syria by A.B. Abrams On 30 August 2021, the United States’ 20-year military occupation of Afghanistan came to an end when the removal of American forces was completed. Although the withdrawal was botched, it was the …
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