The capitalist rulers in Turkey and Islamist Syrian forces they arm and control launched airstrikes, artillery bombardments and a ground invasion of northeastern Syria Oct. 9, targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces there. Their goal is to weaken the…
Following months of airstrikes by the Syrian regime and its ally in Moscow, the government of Bashar al-Assad has retaken some key areas in Idlib province that have been under the control of opponents of his dictatorial rule for the…
Stepped-up bombing of Syrian rebel-held communities in Idlib province by the government in Damascus and its backer in Moscow are deepening the ruinous conditions eight years of war have inflicted on working people there. Conflicting interests among the capitalist powers…
President Donald Trump announced plans Dec. 19 to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and cut by nearly half Washington’s forces in Afghanistan. The decision galvanized some in his administration, and pro-war liberal Democrats and Republicans alike, into calling for the…
The entry of Moscow and its air power, along with Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard troops and Shiite militias it organizes into the civil war in Syria has meant opponents of the regime have been relentlessly driven into one remaining region —…
The capitalist rulers in Russia and Turkey signed a new “demilitarized zone” agreement Sept. 17, halting, for now, the bombardment against rebel forces and civilians in Idlib province in Syria. Government troops and Tehran-backed militia had been poised for a…
The imperialist rulers in Washington, London and Paris carried out a joint missile attack on the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship’s chemical weapons operations in Syria April 13. This followed the regime’s gas attack on civilians in opposition stronghold Douma, a Damascus…
President Donald Trump announced April 11 that missiles “will be coming” to strike targets in Syria, retaliation for a Syrian government poison gas attack a few days earlier on civilians in Douma, a Damascus suburb then controlled by opposition forces.…
The Bashar al-Assad regime is stepping up its murderous air and ground assault on the heavily populated eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus. The dictatorial regime has laid siege to the 400,000 people there for five years, creating shortages of food…
The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, backed by Moscow and Tehran, has intensified its murderous assault on the 400,000 people in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta. Mass mobilizations against Assad’s dictatorship shook Syria in 2011. The regime struck…
