Syria

By Protecting Syria’s Idlib, The US Created A Safe Haven For Baghdadi And ISIS

November 1, 2019 Dan Cohen, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, ISIS, Middle East, Regime Change, Syria

October has been a tough month for the motley crew of self-styled Syria experts and regime-change diehards who spent years cheering on the so-called “moderate rebels.” First, the “Free Syrian Army” fighters they had long championed were finally and undeniably exposed as the brutal extremists they always were. All it took for the curtain to be pulled back was for President Trump to green-light a Turkish invasion of Syria, and those once-“moderate” CIA-trained contras that had long terrorized civilians in Syrian government territory were revealed to be Turkish-backed mercenaries...

Freedom Rider: The Baghdadi Scam

October 31, 2019 Margaret Kimberley, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Syria, Trump Administration

Donald Trump says that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by the United States military. Baghdadi was the founder of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is also known as ISIS and Daesh. The name is less important than the fact that ISIL carried out a reign of terror against the people of Iraq and Syria. They did so with the blessing and connivance of the United States government, which used Baghdadi and his ilk to continue a 40-year long practice of using jihadists proxies against secular states in the region.

Trump Shifts From Ending “Forever Wars” To Sending Tanks Into Syria’s Oil Fields

October 31, 2019 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Militarization, Oil, Syria, US Imperialism

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper Friday confirmed that Washington would leave military forces in Syria to maintain control of the country’s principal oil and gas fields. The Pentagon is “considering how we might reposition forces in the area in order to make sure that we secure the oil fields,” Esper said. His remarks came at the close of a meeting of NATO defense ministers that expressed bitter resentment within Europe over US President Donald Trump’s green lighting of a Turkish invasion of northeast Syria earlier this month along with his announcement that US troops would be pulled out of the region.

Trump And NY Times Admit US Imperialist War In Syria

October 29, 2019 Finian Cunningham, Strategic-culture.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Syria

From extraordinary candid admissions made separately by US President Donald Trump and the New York Times, there can be no illusion about what American forces are really deployed in Syria for. It’s an illegal occupation against the Syrian government and in particular to deprive the Arab country of its oil resources. Subsequently this week it is being reported that the Pentagon is to deploy Abrams tanks and other heavy equipment to the oil fields near Deir Ez-Zor. The troops involved for such a new deployment would far outnumber the 1,000 or so soldiers that President Trump had said were “coming home”.

Russian MoD: Washington Loots Syrian Oil And Transports It Outside Country

October 29, 2019 Staff, Sana.sy Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Oil, Russia, Syria

Moscow, SANA- Russian Defense Ministry affirmed that what Washington does in Syria is a looting and burglary on a state level. Commenting on satellite images that were taken last September and are now being published by the ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Spokesman, said that “tank trucks guarded by US military servicemen and private military companies smuggle oil from fields in the eastern part of Syria to other countries.” “Washington loots the Syrian oil and transport it to outside Syrian territories under American military men guard”...

U.S. Anti-War Movement Should Stay Focused On Getting U.S. Out Of Syria

October 26, 2019 By Sara Flounders, Workers.org Strategize! Anti-war Movement, Middle East, Syria

When forces in U.S. ruling circles contend with and denounce each other to justify foreign intervention — as is currently happening in reaction to the announced U.S. pullback from the Kurdish area of Syria — this generates speculation, analysis and confusion in the population, including among anti-war activists. It demands a clear political response. This confusion takes place because U.S. apologists invent pretexts for the government’s military interventions. They falsely claim it sends troops to defend democracy or to protect the human rights for some group.

Vladimir Putin, Syria’s Pacifier-In-Chief

October 26, 2019 By Pepe Escobar, Asiatimes.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Russia, Syria, Türkiye

The negotiations in Sochi were long – over six hours – tense and tough. Two leaders in a room with their interpreters and several senior Turkish ministers close by if advice was needed. The stakes were immense: a road map to pacify northeast Syria, finally. The press conference afterwards was somewhat awkward – riffing on generalities. But there’s no question that in the end Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan managed the near impossible.

Stay Focused On Getting The US Out Of Syria

October 24, 2019 Sara Flounders, Workers World. Strategize! Kurds, Syria, Türkiye, Wars and Militarism

US Troops Are Staying In Syria To ‘Keep The Oil’ – And Have Already Killed Hundreds Over It

October 24, 2019 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Oil, Syria, US military

US President Donald Trump has reassured supporters that he is “bringing soldiers home” from the “endless” war in Syria. But that is simply not the case. While Trump has ordered a partial withdrawal of the approximately 1,000 American troops on Syrian territory — who have been enforcing an illegal military occupation under international law — US officials and the president himself have admitted that some will be staying. And they will remain on Syrian soil not to ensure to safety of any group of people, but rather to maintain control over oil and gas fields.

New York Times Fakes The Record About Arming The Syrian Rebels

October 23, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Middle East, New York Times (NYT), Propaganda, Syria

Now, [..] the sense of betrayal among the Kurds [..] is matched only by their outrage at who will move in: Turkish soldiers supported by Syrian fighters the United States had long rejected as extremists, criminals and thugs...The deadly battles [..] have also given new leeway to Syrian fighters once considered too extreme or unruly to receive American military support...Grandly misnamed the Syrian National Army, this coalition of Turkish-backed militias is in fact largely composed of the dregs of the eight-year-old conflict’s failed rebel movement.

The Ceasefire That Never Was: Betrayal In Rojava

October 22, 2019 Yvo Fitzherbert, Roarmag.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Syria, Türkiye

Since October 9, Turkey has been engaged in a large-scale offensive against the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, threatening the future of the Rojava revolution. After 10 days of fierce battles between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Turkish army, mass displacement of Kurdish civilians and reports of roadside executions by Turkish-backed proxies, the Trump administration negotiated a ceasefire that is nothing short of a total surrender and capitulation to Ankara’s demands.

Understanding Trump’s ‘Withdrawal’ From Syria And Advocating For Peace In The Middle East

October 21, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Kurds, Syria, Trump, Türkiye

President Trump recently announced he was withdrawing US troops from northeastern Syria where they had fought and imprisoned ISIS members with the Kurds. This move gave the green light for Turkey to invade and try to push the Kurds out ostensibly to replace them with the three million Syrian refugees from the western region currently living in Turkey. Democrats and Republicans are criticizing Trump for withdrawing and abandoning the Kurds. This has created a dilemma for peace activists - should the troops stay or go? We speak with Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace who has spent time in the Middle East, most recently in Syria, to clarify what is going on and how best to advocate for peace in the region.

US Out Of Syria And The Middle East

October 20, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen

Above: US Out of the Middle East, Los Angeles protest against bombing in Syria from ABC7.com. Stop The Turkish Invasion Of

United States Air Force At Incirlik, Our National “Black Eye”

October 20, 2019 Brian Terrell, Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Educate! Kurds, Syria, Türkiye, US military

Current events concerning Turkey and the Kurds in Syria remind me of a conversation I had with a US Air Force colonel almost 17 years ago in a courtroom in Des Moines. To refresh my memory, I dug deep into my closet and dusted off the transcript of the case, “STATE OF IOWA, plaintiff vs. CHRISTINE GAUNT et al.,” in which I was a defendant, heard in February, 2003, the month before the US invasion of Iraq. The following quotes from that dialogue are verbatim per the transcript. The case concerned an alleged trespass at the headquarters of the 132nd Tactical Fighter Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard, based at Des Moines International civilian airport, on October 26, 2002. Activists from around Iowa blocked the gates of the base in protest of the 132nd’s participation in Operation Northern Watch, the no-fly zone over northern Iraq imposed by the US after the Gulf War that lasted until the Iraq War in 2003.

Syria: The Biggest US Defeat Since Vietnam

October 19, 2019 By Pepe Escobar, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Syria, Türkiye

What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. I’ve tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this way: “It’s a quadruple win. The U.S. performs a face saving withdrawal, which Trump can sell as avoiding a conflict with NATO ally Turkey. Turkey has the guarantee – by the Russians – that the Syrian Army will be in control of the Turkish-Syrian border. Russia prevents a war escalation and keeps the Russia-Iran-Turkey peace process alive. And Syria will eventually regain control of the entire northeast.”

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