from the News Desk at The Cradle, published March 25, 2023 On 25 March, the US army smuggled at least 80 fuel tankers loaded with hundreds of tons of stolen Syrian oil from the country’s resource-rich Jazira region to their bases in Iraq. The tanker trucks were taken out of …
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 »Report: Kurdish Delegation Leaves Damascus on ‘Positive’ Note
from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, published January 21, 2023 The US has reportedly warned the SDF several times not to engage in any dialogue with Damascus A Kurdish delegation representing the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) concluded a visit to Damascus on 20 January after meeting with several representatives of …
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 »Protests Expand against SDF and US occupation in Syria
from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, December 27, 2022 According to the Syrian news agency SANA, demonstrations against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US occupation in Syria continue to grow. The protests, which are still ongoing on 27 December, demand the expulsion of US forces and their …
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 …
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 »Turkish attacks on SDF in northern Syria disrupt US oil smuggling
From the Newsdesk at The Cradle, December 7, 2022 Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on 7 December that the US-backed Kurdish militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has suffered immensely in the latest wave of Turkish airstrikes on northern Syria. Despite the gradual Turkish change of plans away from a …
Read More »Istanbul Terror Attack May Prompt Turkish Invasion and Deportations
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 18, 2022 On November 13, a blast ripped through Istiklal street, a busy pedestrian area in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul. The explosion killed six people and wounded 81 at about 4:30 pm local time. Among the dead were Arzu Ozsoy and …
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 …
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