Syrian troops engaged in machine gun training in June, 2025 -- public domain image via the US military Yet another chapter in the imperialist bloodbath that has plagued the Syrian people over the past 15 years is now unfolding. After the jihadist terror regime, backed by Turkey, the Gulf States, the EU, and the US, and in tacit cooperation with Israel, massacred hundreds of Druze and thousands of Alawites in the country’s southern and western regions in 2025, they are now car

Flag of Rojava By Vijay Prashad The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in fact, the deal is a major political defeat for the Syrian Kurdish political formations. Certainly, the rapid advance of the Syrian armed groups loyal to President Ahmad al-Sharaa broke the resistance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the largely Kurdish group, but this advance can only be understood by the total back

A Syrian Arab Army checkpoint abandoned during the offensive, December 2024 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad On 8 December 2024,...

Public domain image By Vijay Prashad In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise...

By Vijay Prashad As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on...

Israeli tank in Syria -- image via video screenshot Statement from the Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba has issued the following statement ( translated from the Spanish ): We have followed with great...

"The Western press are waxing lyrical about the new Syria being born—but not a word on the U.S. and Israeli bombs falling from the sky"...

Statements about events in Syria from Communist parties in Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and Chile. In light of the alarming events...

The summit is the second of its kind since the aggression began in October 2023, though the participating nations have taken no concrete...