A brief overview of the recent developments in Syria: A large U.S. military convoy entered the city of Qamishli;Russia is reportedly working to create a new pro-government militia in al-Hasakah;A series of firefights between Turkish-led forces and SDF units took ...
Read More »Moscow: Oilfields in Syria must be under control of Syrian state
Moscow, SANA-Russian Foreign Ministry reaffirmed that the oilfields in Syria must be under the control of the Syrian state. In a statement to journalists on Wednesday in a comment on the US administration’s plans to reinforce its military presence in ...
Read More »Resistance report: Shameless Washington keeps occupying Syrian oilfields, while the Syrian Army enters several new areas to fend off Turkish aggression
by Aram Mirzaei for the Saker blog In my previous article on Syria, I expressed scepticism towards Washington’s so called “withdrawal” of troops from Syria. I doubted that Washington would fully withdraw from Syria, as Washington has a history of long occupations ...
Read More »President al-Assad’s interview given to al-Sourya and al-Ikhbarya TVs
Damascus, the SANA news agency reports: President Bashar al-Assad stressed that the scenario broadcast by the US about the killing operation of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Daesh organization, is part of the US tricks and we should not believe what ...
Read More »Revisiting the win-win-win-win outcome in Syria
this analysis was written for the Unz Review] In his recent article “The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War Was Won” Pepe Escobar summarized the outcome of the war in Syria in the following way: “It’s a quadruple win. The ...
Read More »Syrian Army Sends Reinforcement To Border To Tackle Resumption Of Turkish Offensive (Video)
On October 21, the Syrian Army continued deploying battle tanks and troops to the northeastern section of Syria, where in fact the Turkish military operation launched earlier this month. The 120-hour long ceasefire announced by the US and Turkey a ...
Read More »Washington Dumps its Kurdish proxies (Temporary Puppets) as Ankara and Damascus step in
By Aram Mirzaei Even though I have my doubts over whether Washington will actually withdraw from Syria fully, it seems as if their Kurdish proxies in northern Syria have been left to defend for themselves against the ongoing Turkish offensive. ...
Read More »Kurds face stark options after US pullback
By Pepe Escobar : Posted with Permission Forget an independent Kurdistan: They may have to do a deal with Damascus on sharing their area with Sunni Arab refugees In the annals of bombastic Trump tweets, this one is simply astonishing: here we ...
Read More »US to Pull About 1,000 Troops From Syria’s North Due to Turkish Offensive – Pentagon
The Pentagon earlier confirmed that some Turkish shelling near the city of Kobani in northern Syria was in close proximity to American troops stationed at an observation post there. Washington insists that Ankara was aware of where its troops were ...
Read More »In Video: Turkish Leopard 2a4 Battle Tanks Enter Northern Syria
Turkish Leopard 2A4 battle tanks have entered northern Syria in the framework of Ankara’s Operation Peace Spring against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. The most-widely known case of the employment of Turkish Leopard 2A4 battle tanks in the conflict in ...
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