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A Surprise Assault on Syria, But Can It Last? A Surprise Assault on Syria, But Can It Last?

December 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Israel, Syria, Terrorism, Turkey, U.S. Aggression

by Haidar Mustafa, published on Syria Support Movement, November 30, 2024 In his speech announcing Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire with Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a direct threat to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning him of “playing with fire.” Those words came mere hours before armed terrorist factions from Idlib launched a shock offensive on Syrian army positions[…]

Feeding a Stalemate in Syria

July 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, Terrorism, United Nations

by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, July 12, 2022 The UN Security Council has agreed to extend a system for cross-border aid to Idlib, Syria until January 2023. The US and its allies had demanded a year-long extension, but Russia used its veto on Friday. UN and other NGO aid delivery trucks will cross from Turkey into Syria at[…]

Aleppo’s Liberation Four Years Ago: Lest We Forget

December 18, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Middle East Wars, Neocolonialism, Syria

by Jan Oberg, initially published on The Transnational, December 13, 2020 A retrospective on the turning point in Syria, where the western powers drive to destroy the Syrian government and the fabric of Syrian society was checked and diverted into its current twisted formulation. I think Jan is right that we should not forget what went before and how we[…]

Liberate Syria’s Idlib, Precisely for the Civilians

June 1, 2019 UNAC Editor Syria

Photo: Looking out from a factory in western Aleppo, just 400 metres from al-Qaeda snipers. © Eva Bartlett by Eva Bartlett, Published by Information Clearing House, May 25, 2019 Western media and politicians are crying for Al-Qaeda in Syria again. It doesn’t get much more absurd than this! After years of brutal occupation by terrorists from various groups and now overwhelmingly Hay’at Tahrir[…]

Syria After The Defeat Of Imperialism

January 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Free Speech, Resistance, Syria

by Eva Bartlett, from Popular Resistance, January 9, 2018 (initially published on In Gaza and Beyond as ‘Video Updates From Syria, Where Peace Reigns Nearly Fully Again’) Note: This article and series of videos show realities we do not see in the western media. The US, NATO, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Turkey have been defeated in their brutal attempt to[…]

Robert Fisk: “I Traced Al-Qaeda Missile Casings In Syria Back To Their Original Sellers”

August 4, 2018 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Syria

Image: A prior spent missile tube in Syria with “Hughes Aircraft Company” listed as manufacturer which surfaced in 2014 (not part of the same batch of weapons analyzed in Fisk’s report). Notice the attempt to scratch off the serial numbers. Via Armament Research Services by Tyler Durden, originally published on Zero Hedge Finally, a journalist for a mainstream UK media outlet[…]

The Liberation of East Ghouta

March 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Propaganda, Syria

Statement by the Syria Solidarity Movement The complete liberation of Eastern Ghouta is imminent. Just as during the liberation of Aleppo, western governments and mainstream media inflated the numbers of trapped civilians and accused Syrian government forces of deliberately targeting them, failing to provide them with humanitarian aid, preventing their evacuation, and indiscriminately bombing them in Eastern Ghouta. And, just[…]

The war and the media — Double standards for Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria

February 11, 2018 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars

The Pentagon made its largest bombing attack inside Syria since last April on Feb. 6, striking pro-Syrian government forces at the same time as an attack from Israel on Syria. Thus, once again imperialist powers threaten to reignite their campaign to overthrow the legitimate Syrian government. All the more timely is it that Workers World publish this article by anti-war[…]