by Mohamed Nader Al-Omari, published on The Cradle, October 13, 2024 In a familiar strategy of backing proxy forces, the US has orchestrated a toxic alliance between Ukrainian forces and Syrian extremists to counter Russia’s influence — continuing Washington’s decades-long pattern of leveraging terror groups to pursue its geopolitical goals. …
Read More »Hundreds of ‘Ukrainian Experts’ Training Syria-based Extremists in Drone Warfare: Report
from the News Desk at The Cradle, September 17, 2024 Editor’s Note: More and more it appears that a global conflagration has already begun. A group of 250 Ukrainian military experts has arrived in Syria’s northern Idlib governorate to train extremist militants in the use and manufacture of drones, a …
Read More »Ken Stone Talks About Syria, the War and the Sanctions, U.S. Aggression
Gorilla Radio Interview with Chris Cook and Ken Stone, August 30, 2023
Read More »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 …
Read More »How US Exceptionalism Has Spawned War in Ukraine and Syria
by Rick Sterling, published on Antiwar.com, February 25, 2023 The following is an adapted version of the presentation made at the webinar “Connecting Dots” on 2.25.2023. Other speakers were Dr. Marwa Osman and Dr. Atif Kubursi. Introduction Syria has been at war since 2011. The conflict is in a stalemate. …
Read More »Israeli Drones, Warplanes Strike Iran and Syria
by Patrick Martin, published on WSWS, January 31, 2023 Israeli military and intelligence units carried out multiple acts of aggression over the weekend against Iran and Iranian forces in Syria. The attacks were the first offensive military operations under the ultra-right government newly installed in Israel, under Prime Minister Benjamin …
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 »The Power Troika Trumps Biden in West Asia
by Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, July 20, 2022 The Tehran summit uniting Iran-Russia-Turkey was a fascinating affair in more ways than one. Ostensibly about the Astana peace process in Syria, launched in 2017, the summit joint statement duly noted that Iran, Russia and (recently rebranded) Turkiye will continue, …
Read More »Syrian Permanent Representative to the UN Calls Out Western Critics Russia’s Special Operation in Ukraine
Remarks of the Syrian permanent representative to the UN, following the 2-hour Russian presentation at the UN Security Council on May 6, 2022, concerning Ukrainian war crimes during the current crisis. The Russians presented numerous commentaries from civilians in Eastern Ukraine and Journalists working there. Most of the representatives …
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