Catholic bishops of the Maronite Catholic Church in Lebanon are warning that the Syrian migrant crisis in Lebanon is a ticking time bomb, as we read in La Croix International: The intensification of the conflict in the Middle East, the real possibility of its escalation to a regional war has and the presence of over […]
Turkish nationalists went on a violent pogrom against Syrians, attacking businesses and cars owned by Syrians. ⚫️ #SONDAKİKA Kayseri’de içinde Suriyelilerin bulunduğu evler taşlanıyor. pic.twitter.com/df7qhXjrYa — SİYAH SANCAK (@siyahsancakx) July 1, 2024 ⚫️ #SONDAKİKA Kayseri’de içinde Suriyelilerin bulunduğu evler taşlanıyor. pic.twitter.com/df7qhXjrYa — SİYAH SANCAK (@siyahsancakx) July 1, 2024 As we read in al-Monitor: Four people […]
One of the things that plagued the Western world (more specifically the United States), in the time from the fall of the Soviet Union to the fall of Saddam, to the fall of Gaddafi, to the beginning of the Syrian revolution, and until the period we are living in now, is hubris. This overly indulgent […]
Iran has sent drones into Israel, as we read in AP news: Iran launched drones toward Israel late Saturday, the Israeli military announced, and Iran’s state-run media reported that dozens had been fired. The Israeli army’s spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said it would take several hours for the aircraft to arrive and that the […]
Islamic terrorists ambushed and killed eleven Syrian soldiers after Syria’s and Russia’s forces attacked jihadists. As we read in the Times of Israel: Jihadists killed at least 11 soldiers in northwestern Syria Saturday when they detonated explosives placed in tunnels dug underneath army positions before attacking them, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for […]
Islamic terrorists in Syria murdered 240 truffle farmers in Syria in just a 70 day period. As we read in Middle East Eye: Over a 70-day period up to mid-April, around 240 truffle hunters were killed in eastern Syria, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group. “It’s really exciting work despite […]
My thoughts on the normalization attempt occurring right now between Syria and Turkey:
After a decade of Saudi Arabia having a proxy war against the Assad regime, the Saudis now want to normalize ties with the Syrian government. This is, of course, to the ire of the US government. As we read in Reuters: Syria and Saudi Arabia have agreed to reopen their embassies after cutting diplomatic ties […]
Rebels have been blocking aid for the earthquake because it comes from areas controlled by the Assad government, as we read in Reuters: A convoy from the Kurdish-led northeast destined for an area in the northwest held by Turkey-backed rebel factions – enemies that have fought numerous bouts of conflict during the civil war – […]
Turkey now wants to expand territory in Syria, and the US is opposing this. As we read in Bloomberg: The US warned Turkey against a new military campaign into Kurdish-controlled parts of Syria, saying that some recent airstrikes had posed a threat to US personnel working with Syrian partners to defeat the Islamic State. US […]
Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers are being withdrawn from Syria to be sent to join the fight in Ukraine, leaving a void in Syria to be vied for by Iran and Turkey. The Russian bases that have been left behind are believed to have been given to Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guards Corps and Hezbollah. […]
My thoughts on the new refugee crisis:
By Theodore Shoebat In July of 2016, there was a failed coup against Erdogan. In the next morning, Erdogan declared: “This uprising is a gift from God to us because this will be a reason to cleanse our army.” And this is exactly what happened. Soldiers and high ranking officers were accused of being a part […]
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP), declared that if he won he would, by Allah, deport all Syrian refugees back to Syria, as we read in report from Middle East Monitor: Turkey’s main opposition leader on Tuesday said if his party comes to power, they would return […]
Lebanon is a country filled with strife, and there are no sides that are good, with neighbors hating one another, and with factions covering their own intentions with the face of justice. Rebellion is masqueraded as justice, and the true nightmare is exposed only after everyone is sold to the facade of righteous indignation. Neighbor […]
By Theodore Shoebat Missile strikes in Syria hit oil refineries and killed one person, as we read in Arab News: Missile strikes in northern Syria near the Turkish border killed one person and injured at least eleven others on Friday, Turkish state media and a source from the Turkish-backed faction that controls the region said. […]
