by Jake Johnson, published on Common Dreams, September 9, 2024 A spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry called on Israel’s allies to “stop supporting and arming it.” The Israeli military carried out a series of airstrikes on central Syria late Sunday, reportedly killing more than a dozen people and prompting a …
Read More »Boiling the Israeli Frog in In Southwest Asia (video)
A lecture by Sharmine Narwani at the American University in Beirut, Posted by The Cradle, September 4, 2024 This talk really helps with a understanding a lot of issues occurring in the “Middle East” at this time, so that many people who oppose the wars, oppose the occupation of Palestine …
Read More »President Bashar al-Assad Addresses the New Syrian Parliament.
From Ken Stone, SSM FB Page, 25 August، 2024 Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad said that the People’s Assembly is the most important institution in the State’s institutions and its impact won’t be tangible if the development doesn’t be comprehensive for all institutions in light of the solid relation among …
Read More »Turkey and Syria Both Want the US Military Out of Syria
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 17, 2024 On August 13, US troops in Syria came under attack, according to local media sources, but no details on possible injuries. On August 9, eight US military troops were wounded in a drone attack at Rumaylan base in North East …
Read More »The Other Occupation: US Forces in Syria
by Mohamed Nader al-Omari, published on The Cradle, August 16, 2024 While the world’s attention has been fixed on the brutalities of the Israeli occupation state, the illegal US military occupation of neighboring Syria has been largely neglected. Now, local and regional resistance is coalescing to target the American occupation …
Read More »The Battle in North-east Syria for Syrian Oil and Territory
by Vanessa Beeley, published on Vanessa’s Substack, August 12, 2024 The War Continues: Syrian Tribal Forces clash with US proxies and threaten Al Omar oil field with liberation There is a very real risk of Israel expanding the war in the West Asia region – Netanyahu is not bowing to …
Read More »America’s Syrian Gulag
by Brad Pearce, published on the Libertarian Institute Website, August 1, 2024 This article, which has a US-centric perspective, was published the day before The Cradle published an article saying that 1,000 ISIS prisoners were released from this gulag, causing significant consternation in Iraq, and more or less co-temporal with …
Read More »Syrian Army Shells US Proxies in Deir Ezzor as Tribal Uprising Continues
from the News Desk at The Cradle, published August 8, 2024 US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria have accused Damascus’ General Intelligence Service of being behind the large-scale tribal assault launched against them on Wednesday Syrian army troops shelled positions of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 8 August, responding …
Read More »Iraq Boosts Security on Syrian Border after US Proxies Free Hundreds of ISIS Fighters
from the News Desk at The Cradle, August 1, 2024 Officials from Mosul say the released ISIS fighters have been ‘dispersed along the Iraqi borders’ with no monitoring. The Iraqi armed forces have increased security along the country’s border with Syria following the release of hundreds of ISIS fighters from …
Read More »Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran Unite to Refuse a Kurdish State in Syria
Steven Sahiounie interviews Dr. Nidal Kabalan, journalist, political analyst, and former Syrian Ambassador to Turkey. Published on Mideast Discourse, July 7, 2024 According to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr. Shia Sudani, Syria and Turkey are moving closer to a possible normalization of relations which were broken after the U.S.-NATO attack …
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