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Having overthrown the governments in Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011, the U.S. government has sought to topple the Syrian government during the past two years.
On May 11, large explosions rocked Reyhanlı, Turkey. Close to a main border crossing between Turkey and Syria, the explosions were assuredly part of the broader regional fallout from the civil war in Syria.
The massive Israeli air strikes on May 5 near Damascus mark a new phase in the imperialist-led campaign to overthrow the Syrian government.
An international peace conference on the Syrian crisis, organized by the Peace Association of Turkey and the World Peace Council, with participants from 23 countries, took place in Istanbul April 25-28.
While pretending to be cautious about its intervention in Syria, the Obama administration has conducted a massive clandestine operation over the past two years to pump arms and money to fuel the civil war that is destroying Syria.
Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, why did the United States target the governments in Libya and Syria for destruction? Why did some “socialists” support these so-called revolutions that were backed by the Pentagon and NATO?
Communist Party of Turkey statement: 'We have to expose the real agenda behind sending NATO missiles and troops to the region.'
Leila Khaled, member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, spoke in Turkey to speak at a forum: “The Dynamics of Transformation in the Middle East.”
Using the so-called threat of a Syrian attack, in December 2012, the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) had requested that NATO deploy missiles along its border with Syria.
The war in Syria, after all, is not reducible to “Assad versus the people,” nor is it an “inter-imperialist” conflict between the U.S. and Russia.