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Turkey Plans to Annex Aleppo

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 17, 2023 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his plan to return Syrian refugees in Turkey to Aleppo. For many years he has proposed a plan to create a safe zone, or de-escalation zone specifically developed to hold the millions of …

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Syria Today – Assad Extends Aid Delivery; Drug Prices Up By 50%

by THE SYRIAN OBSERVER, Wednesday August 9th, 2023 On Tuesday, the spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced that Syria has granted an extension for the United Nations to continue delivering humanitarian aid through two Turkish border crossings. This permission will be in effect until …

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Are They Really Fighting Terrorists? U.S. Occupation Forces in Syria Receive New Weapons for a Future Conflict

by Timothy Alexander Guzman, published on Global Research, August 4, 2023 In early May, Syria was welcomed back to the Arab League, a development that was sure to anger the US and European establishments so new tensions between US occupation forces and the Russia-Syria alliance have been escalating quite rapidly …

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Situation Will Improve If All Illegal Sanctions, Occupation Are Withdrawn

from People’s Dispatch, July 25, 2023 Syria has allowed the continuation of the cross-border aid program in the rebel-held areas in its north-east even though the UN Security Council had failed to adopt a resolution on its extension earlier this month It seems that Syria made a show of generosity …

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Damascus Strongly Condemns U.S. and Turkey for Cutting off Water Supply in Hassakeh

from the Syrian Observer / al-Baath, July 20, 2023 Syria urgently calls upon the United Nations to take immediate and effective action to halt violations of international laws, according to al-Baath. In an official statement, the Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs expressed Syria’s vehement condemnation of the heinous act …

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No More Astana Peace Talks for Syria

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, June 25, 2023 The Astana peace talks for Syria began in 2017 and recently met in Kazakhstan on June 20-21. It surprised many when the Kazakh Deputy Foreign Minister Kanat Tumysh called the process over while saying the goals were achieved and declared …

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Extremists Who Left Syria to Fight in Ukraine Realize Journey ‘Futile’: Expert

From the News Desk at The Cradle, June 21, 2023 Egyptian researcher and political analyst Ahmad Sultan was quoted as saying on 21 June that many of the extremist militants who left Syria for the Ukrainian battlefield last year have realized that the fight against Russia is futile. “The jihadists …

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UN Aid Crosses Govt Controlled Syria to Region Occupied by Al-Qaeda Affiliates

from the News Desk at the Cradle, June 24, 2023 Damascus has long insisted that UN deliveries be coordinated by the government, as the extremists in control of Idlib often seize the aid and resell it at higher prices On 23 June, ten trucks carrying UN humanitarian aid crossed from …

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U.S. Sanctions are Drowning Syrians

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, June 15, 2023 Hundreds of Syrian men, women and children have drowned early Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece after the sinking of an Egyptian trawler headed for Italy. It is being called one of the deadliest migrant ship …

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UN Slashes Food Aid to Syria as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens

from the News Desk at The Cradle, June 14, 2023 The UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced that it has to cut food aid to Syria by 50 percent due to a lack of funding, Middle East Monitor reported on 14 June. “An unprecedented funding crisis in Syria is forcing …

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