Tag Archives: Syria

The OPCW Third Report on Douma would make Joseph Goebbels proud “A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth” Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Party Minister of Information in the Adolph Hitler Regime On January 27, 2023, the Organization for the Prohibition of …

by Feroz Mithiborwala, published on Countercurrents, January 21, 2023 The US continues to wage war upon the nations of the world by resorting to imposing economic sanctions. These sanctions are a continuation of war by other means, and the world has been witness to the disastrous and genocidal consequences of …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 20, 2023 In November 2022, Saudi Arabia formally changed its stance on Syria. Saudi Arabia is the political powerhouse of the Middle East, and often shares positions on foreign policy and international issues with the UAE, which has previously re-opened their embassy …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 20, 2023 Many Syrians may have left as refugees, but the country seems very crowded.  The US-NATO attack on Syria for regime change began in 2011 and brought in outside actors: Iran, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the US. The foreign …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, January 12, 2023 On 12 January, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with the special envoy of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss Moscow’s proposal to establish bilateral talks between Damascus and Ankara; however, Assad remarked that any talks between the two states …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, January 13, 2023 Note the date of the header image on this article.  In February of 2011, when the smiling and relaxed Turkish President met with Bashar Assad, he was already building camps for the families of insurgents expected to flee from Syria …

by Dave DeCamp, published on Antiwar.com, January 4, 2023 The State Department on Tuesday said that the US opposes other countries normalizing with the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad following high-level talks between Syria and Turkey. The defense ministers of Syria and Turkey met in Moscow at the end …

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

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 …

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 …