Syria

Posted by: John Phoenix   December 25, 2024 Slicing of the Syrian Cake DAMASCUS, Feb. 31, 2025—Political, military, and religious groups convened today at the eight-star Sham Hotel in Damascus to determine the future of Syria and which group gets what power and territory in the Democratic and Inclusive Brave New Syria. In attendance were Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leaders Abu Mohammad al-Julani and Mohammad al-Bashir; Syrian National Army (SNA) leader Hadi al-Bahra; Ghasan Hito, prime minister of the Syrian Interim Government (SIG) and his colleague the Turkmen Abdurrahman Mustafa. Also in attendance were Kurdish leaders Ilham Ehmed and Mansur Selum of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and representatives of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Th...

Posted by: John Phoenix Weeks where Decades Happen Dec 23, 2024 There is an oft-quoted remark from Vladimir Lenin, which in its English formulation usually reads something like: "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” This is one of those aphorisms which has been exercised practically to death, but there are rare occasions where it perfectly fits the chaotic tempo of world events, and few cases fit the bill better than the fall of the Syrian Arab Republic and its embattled (former) President, Bashir Al-Assad. Syria was first plunged into Civil War by an escalating insurgency in 2012, and more than a decade of grueling positional fighting and sieges, including a maddening four-year siege of Aleppo, saw the frontlines in the count...

Posted by: John Phoenix “The former bad teacher, former jihadist leader, former representative of 'evil' on this land soaked in blood, oil and gas.(video interview about)” December 22, 2024 In the cover image Al Jolani during the interview of TG1 RAI, which transforms the HTS group declared a terrorist organization by the UN into a “rebel force”, and the former Interpol official Antonio Evangelista. INFORMATION NOTE from Wikipedia Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS; Hayʼat Taḥrīr al-Shām, lit. “Organization for the Liberation of the Levant” or “Committee for the Liberation of the Levant”), commonly Taḥrīr al-Shām, is a Syrian Islamist armed formation of Salafi orientation, currently active and involved in the Syrian civil war. HTS is responsible for serious human rights vio...

Posted by: John Phoenix December 24, 2024 In the cover image Muslim Sayyeda Zainab shrine and St. George’s Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus The Muslim Sayyeda Zainab shrine and St. George’s Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus By Jim Aristopoulos, social anthropologist and historian On the 8th of December, we witnessed an event that shocked and sank every free-thinking person on this planet into mourning. Syria, the heroic nation that for thirteen years stood up to the imperialism of the USA, its allies, Zionism, and the neo-Ottoman darkness, succumbed and fell to Islamist terrorism. Words can barely describe the tragedy of this event. The country that shed blood and, with its heroic army, sacrificed so many martyrs, leaving sepulchers of their glory behind, fell in the most i...

Posted by: John Phoenix December 23, 2024 “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews John V. Walsh, he is a r https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1989470239&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=696 Etired Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. He writes about issues of war, peace, empire, health care and geopolitics for Antiwar.com, Consortium News, Asia Times, San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Times, San Jose Mercury News, LA Progressive and other websites.They discuss, President Biden’s nuclear confrontation with Russia; the collapse of Syria...

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, December 17, 2024 As terrorism spread across Syria and ultimately reached the capital, Damascus, on the evening of Saturday, December 7, 2024, questions began to arise about the president’s fate and whereabouts. This occurred amidst a torrent of misinformation and narratives far removed from the truth, narratives which sought to portray international terrorism as a liberation revolution for Syria. At this pivotal moment in the nation’s history, when truth must have its place, it is necessary to clarify certain points in this brief statement. Unfortunately, the prevailing circumstances at the time, including a complete communication blackout for security reasons, prevented this clarification until now. These brief points do not repla...

Posted by: John Phoenix If Erdogan isn’t careful, he could find himself in outright confrontation not only with Syrian but also Russian armed forces. Lalkar writers 10 March 2020 Subscribe to our  channel Turkey’s attempts to seize the Syrian province of Idlib is bringing closer the prospect of a direct confrontation with Russia. Meanwhile, the Syrian army continues to advance, deternined to liberate every inch of Syrian soil from occupation, be that by the jihadi gangsters or their Turkish and US puppet-masters. In recent weeks the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has made steady progress towards the liberation of the northwestern province of Idlib, the last terrorist stronghold in Syria. The terror group HTS, better known as al-Nusra, has occupied the would-be ...