Chicago, IL – 100 Chicagoans came out in the rain on Saturday, July 19, to protest the continued genocide in Gaza and stand with the people of Syria and Palestine. The Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine (CJP) called this protest in response to escalations of Zionist attacks on Syria. Protesters demanded “Not a penny not a dollar” for the Zionist entity’s crimes and chanted “Gaza needs food and water! Israel, stop the slaughter!”



“Massacres in Suwayda, in Syria are an extension of the same exact system that is being carried out and enacted with the brutal genocide against Gaza. We are gathered here not only for Syria, but because our entire region is being ripped apart before our eyes,” said a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement. “Today, the Zionists and their stooges seek to fragment Syria, because a fragmented and bleeding Syria serves only one purpose: isolating Palestine.”

“The Palestinians are not giving up on themselves in Gaza, and we should not give up on them,” said Tarek Muhammad Khalil with American Muslims for Palestine. “We have the utmost responsibility here in the United States because it is we that provide this genocidal regime with $3.8 billion every single year unchecked!”

“We can materially weaken Israel where we are in the belly of the beast and in so doing we can help grind the U.S./Zionist war machine to a halt,” said Zhenya Polozova with the Anti-War Committee Chicago, speaking on the campaign to divest Illinois bonds from Israel, adding “They are relying on a fragile economic arrangement that we can disrupt within our position. The financial organs here at home have a direct hand in the crimes committed by the Zionist entity.”

Polozova called for continued protest against Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs and the State Board of Investments (ISBI) for its genocide support at the next SBI meeting on the morning of September 19.

The protesters marched through downtown, chanting, “Money for jobs and education not for war and occupation!” and “Hands off Syria!” As they marched, the organizers encouraged bystanders to fight back against the use of their tax dollars for genocide. One of the calls to action was signing the divestment petition which can be found at antiwarchicago.org/divest.

CJP has organized protests nearly every week for 22 months against this genocide. After marching back to their starting location, organizers affirmed that they would continue to show up until the genocide ceases.

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La Organización Socialista Camino de la Libertad condena la continua agresión respaldada por los Estados Unidos contra Siria. El presidente Bashar al-Assad fue obligado a huir del país y ahora se encuentra exiliado en Moscú. Lo que está claro es que el gobierno sirio ha colapsado. Este ataque flagrante contra la soberanía siria es parte de un esfuerzo más amplio – por parte de los imperialistas occidentales, Israel y las fuerzas reaccionarias en la región – para derrotar al Eje de Resistencia, que lucha por la liberación de Palestina y para poner fin al control estadounidense en la región.

Siria ha sido un aliado firme de los pueblos del Líbano y Palestina, brindando apoyo político y militar. La pérdida de Siria como un estado soberano e independiente no solo afecta al pueblo sirio, sino que también debilita las fuerzas de resistencia contra Israel en esta región.

La desestabilización de Siria es otro paso hacia la expansión de la guerra en el Medio Oriente. Israel y los halcones en la administración entrante de Trump tienen claro que planean intensificar la hostilidad hacia Irán.

La historia muestra que la intervención de Estados Unidos hace más para retroceder a las naciones soberanas en el tiempo que para hacerlas avanzar. Estados Unidos llevó a cabo décadas de agresión contra el gobierno sirio, supuestamente en apoyo de la “democracia”, pero esto es una mentira, y una que ya se ha utilizado antes. En Libia, que en su día ostentaba el nivel de vida más alto de África, la intervención de los Estados Unidos/OTAN redujo el país al caos, deshaciendo décadas de desarrollo y progreso. Estas acciones sirven como sombríos recordatorios de lo que realmente implica la intervención imperialista.

Al mismo tiempo, Israel, que ya ocupaba Siria en la región de los Altos del Golán, continúa con sus intentos de anexar más de Siria, mientras expande asentamientos ilegales y arrebata tierras palestinas. Recientemente, Israel traspasó las fronteras de Siria por primera vez en 50 años. Este es un acto de agresión que deja en claro las ambiciones de Israel de expandirse y su papel como herramienta del imperialismo estadounidense en la región. Estas incursiones forman parte de una estrategia más amplia para debilitar y desestabilizar a Siria, mientras profundizan aún más la ocupación sionista.

Durante los últimos diez años, Estados Unidos ha bombardeado Siria en múltiples ocasiones y ha tenido tropas allí durante la mayor parte de este período. La agresión contra Siria ha adoptado otras formas – desde sanciones opresivas que perjudican a los sirios comunes hasta el suministro de armas y financiación a grupos antigubernamentales que consistentemente han sido revelados como proxies de los intereses de Estados Unidos y sus aliados. Los llamados “luchadores por la libertad” no traerán la liberación a Siria, sino más bien armas estadounidenses, masacres y devastación económica.

Rechazamos todo el apoyo de Estados Unidos a estas políticas expansionistas y condenamos los intentos continuos de Israel por arrebatar más tierras. El respaldo de Estados Unidos al apartheid israelí y a los asentamientos ilegales no solo viola el derecho internacional, sino que también perpetúa el sufrimiento de los palestinos, sirios y de la región en su conjunto. Las tropas estadounidenses y las fuerzas respaldadas por Estados Unidos no tienen ningún papel legítimo en Siria.

Exigimos la retirada inmediata de todas las tropas estadounidenses de Siria y el fin del apoyo de Estados Unidos a las fuerzas antigubernamentales.

Exigimos el fin de las sanciones contra Siria, que devastan a la gente común mientras avanzan los objetivos imperialistas de Estados Unidos.

Exigimos el fin de la ayuda militar estadounidense a Israel y condenamos sus asentamientos y anexiones ilegales, y su ocupación genocida de Palestina.

Condenamos a los responsables de la desestabilización del gobierno sirio y reafirmamos nuestra solidaridad con la resistencia palestina y sus aliados – Líbano, Irán, Yemen e Irak.

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The Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns the ongoing U.S.-backed aggression against Syria. President Bashar Al-Assad has been forced to flee the country, and now sits in exile in Moscow. What is clear is that the Syrian government has collapsed. This blatant assault on Syrian sovereignty is part of a larger effort – by Western imperialists, Israel and reactionary forces in the region – to defeat the Axis of Resistance, which is fighting for the liberation of Palestine and to end U.S. control in the region.

Syria stood as a staunch ally to the peoples of Lebanon and Palestine, providing political and military support. The loss of Syria as a sovereign, independent state not only hurts the Syrian people, but also weakens the resistance forces against Israel in this region.

The destabilization of Syria is another step towards widening the war in the Middle East. Israel and the hawks in the incoming Trump administration are clear that they plan to ramp up hostility towards Iran.

History shows that U.S. involvement does more to set sovereign nations back in time than forward. The U.S. carried out decades of aggression against the Syrian government, supposedly in support of “democracy,” but this is a lie, and one that’s been used before. In Libya, which once boasted the highest standard of living in Africa, U.S./NATO intervention reduced the country to chaos, undoing decades of development and progress. These actions serve as grim reminders of what imperialist intervention truly entails.

At the same time, Israel, which already occupied Syria in the Golan Heights region, continues its attempts to annex more of Syria, while expanding illegal settlements and seizing Palestinian land. Just recently, Israel breached Syria’s borders for the first time in 50 years. This is an act of aggression that makes plain Israel’s ambitions to expand and its role as a tool of U.S. imperialism in the region. These incursions are part of a broader strategy to weaken and destabilize Syria while further entrenching the Zionist occupation.

For the last ten years the U.S. has bombed Syria many times and has had troops there for most of this period. The aggression against Syria has taken other forms – from oppressive sanctions that harm ordinary Syrians to the arming and financing of anti-government groups that have consistently been revealed to be proxies for U.S. and allied interests. The so-called “freedom fighters” will not bring liberation to Syria, but rather U.S. weapons, massacres and economic devastation.

We reject all U.S. support for these expansionist policies and condemn Israel’s ongoing attempts to seize more land. The U.S.’s backing of Israeli apartheid and illegal settlements not only violates international law but also perpetuates the suffering of Palestinians, Syrians and the region as a whole. U.S. troops and U.S.-backed forces have no legitimate role in Syria.

We call for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Syria and an end to U.S. support of anti-government forces.

We demand an end to the sanctions on Syria, which devastate ordinary people while advancing U.S. imperialist goals.

We demand an end to U.S. military aid to Israel and condemn its illegal settlements and annexations, and genocidal occupation of Palestine.

We condemn those responsible for the destabilization of the Syrian government and we reaffirm our solidarity with the Palestinian resistance and its allies – Lebanon, Iran, Yemen and Iraq.

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The government of Syria led by President Bashar al-Assad has collapsed. This upheaval has major implications for the struggle against U.S. imperialism and Israeli aggression in the region. Regardless of who leads Syria, the Anti-War Committee remains opposed to interference in Syria by the United States, Israel, and their imperialist allies.

Israel has occupied and illegally settled Syria’s Golan Heights since 1967, and is already using Syria’s instability to expand its so-called “buffer zone,” while continuing its bombing raids in Syria. Israel seeks to pressure Syria into accepting the theft of the Golan Heights and normalizing relations. It also may have its eye on expanding its occupation in Syria for future Zionist settlement.

As part of its support for Israel, the United States has been working to weaken and destabilize Syria for years. The U.S. has openly backed certain factions in Syria since at least 2012, with the now-declassified “Timber Sycamore” weapons smuggling operation led by the CIA, and the “Syrian Train and Equip” program led by the Pentagon. The U.S. has economically sanctioned Syria since 1979 when it first labeled the country as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” In 2020, brutal new U.S. sanctions devastated Syria’s financial, energy and construction sectors, severely limiting access to electricity and basic humanitarian goods for millions of Syrians, while harming reconstruction efforts. And since 2015, the U.S. military has directly had boots on the ground in Syria, notably occupying Syria’s oil fields.

Some are celebrating what they see as the fall of a repressive tyrant. Others are mourning the collapse of a bulwark of resistance to Israel, with Syria providing a crucial supply line for resistance groups in neighboring Lebanon as well as Gaza. In any case, we know Israel sees Assad’s downfall as a victory, and is already eagerly taking advantage of the situation with an unchecked onslaught of attacks on Syria.

Ultimately, it’s not yet clear what political forces will shape the new Syria. From our perspective of international solidarity against Israel’s expanding genocide in the Levant, we hope any new government that emerges is able to resist U.S./Israeli attacks, and continues Syria’s support for the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine.

We encourage our followers to remain committed to the principles of anti-imperialism, sovereignty and independence for all nations, and steadfast, united opposition to the U.S.-backed Zionist project.

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Tucson, AZ – On Monday April 1, 15 Palestine solidarity activists braved the cold spring rain in response to Israel’s latest deadly airstrikes into Syria and Lebanon. The Tucson Anti War Committee (TAWC) organized the protest at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base to condemn the U.S. escalation of its war in the Middle East and the recent decision to send 2500 more bombs and 25 more fighter jets to Israel.

Just this past week, Israel conducted several airstrikes, killing over 40 people in Syria and several more in Lebanon.

With presence at all four traffic corners, protesters held signs that read: “Hands off Syria! U.S. out of the Middle East” and “End U.S. aid to Israel.” As the rain intensified, one protester suggested a timely chant, “Rain or shine, we stand with Palestine!”

Organizers noted the positive shift from previous TAWC actions at Davis Monthan AFB, as many more vehicles honked in favor of a free Palestine.

As the Zionist genocide enters its sixth month, Israel and the U.S. are escalating the regional war as the united resistance continues its support for a liberated Palestine. This week, airstrikes targeted leaders in the resistance movements, including an Iranian adviser located in Syria. With Israel’s inability to destroy the Palestinian resistance, it seeks to threaten its regional allies with cowardly airstrikes that violate national sovereignty.

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Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns the massive airstrikes unleashed by the U.S. on Syria and Iraq. The Biden administration say this bombing campaign is just getting started. It should be opposed by everyone who wants peace with justice.

The Biden administration justifies its criminal attacks as some sort of legitimate “retaliation.” Nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is that the U.S. has military bases in Iraq that Iraqi people want gone. The U.S. is also illegally occupying portions of Syria. The Syrian government has told the U.S. to leave its soil on many occasions. An unwelcome invader of the other people’s homes, the warmakers of Washington, D.C. play the aggrieved party when resistance forces try to end these occupations. The hypocrisy of empire is unbelievable.

The United States is trying to maintain its domination of the Mideast, and it is the facilitator of the genocide taking place in Gaza. Currently the Pentagon is rushing munitions of all kinds to maintain the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The aim of the bombing campaign is to improve the strategic position of Israel and weaken the axis of resistance: Syria, Iran, Yemen, the Palestinian liberation movement, and the patriotic forces in Lebanon and Iraq. This is a case of lifting a rock to drop it on one’s own feet.

The Palestinian resistance has proved to be remarkably powerful and resilient. In Gaza and the West Bank, the resistance has successfully stood up to the occupation, so the Zionists have resorted to the mass murder of Palestinian moms, children and old folks. Their tactics range from bombs and air strikes to the blockade of goods and deliberate mass starvation.

The U.S. has long used Israel like a policemen’s club to beat the peoples of the Middle East when they step out of line and stand up for liberation and national independence. Now that it seems possible that the Palestinian people along with their allies might take that club away from the U.S. and end the occupation, the Biden administration is widening the war.

It’s critical that we stand with Palestine and embrace resistance. Each and every escalation by the U.S. should be met with opposition. A national week of action is set for February 5 – 11 to stop U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza. These protests should be supported. It is the right thing to do.

End all U.S aid to Israel!

U.S. stop bombing the Middle East!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

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On Monday morning 6th of February, a massive earthquake reaching 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale struck the region of southern Turkey – north Syria, followed by tens of aftershocks and a second major earthquake reaching 7.5 degrees.

At the time the shocked humanity is still counting the victims in both Turkey and Syria, as the death toll reached 15 thousand, tens of thousands are injured, and hundreds of thousands are homeless seeking shelter in severe weather conditions. WFTU can’t stay silent about the fact that imperialist forces have imposed sanctions on Syria.

The sanctions on Syria have been affecting the Syrian people for years now, resulting in a lack of fuel, electricity, medical supplies, and industrial machines that are essential to every country and nation for their daily life. The Syrian people had already suffered enough from the war, and they deserve a chance to live freely and with dignity.

Today in light of this catastrophe, these sanctions must be lifted immediately, as they are affecting the search and rescue operation after the disastrous earthquake. The sanctions against Syria are prohibiting heavy machinery and medical supplies even food supplies from entering Syria and now, more than ever, they are necessary for the survival of tens of thousands, and for rescue operations of people that are still stuck under the debris of their own homes.

The WFTU demands the immediate withdrawal of the imperialist sanctions against Syria, to put an end to the barbaric and inhumane policies of blockades and embargos. These policies are killing people that are stuck under the debris, killing the injured with a lack of medical supplies, leaving tens of thousands in streets to face harsh weather conditions, and leaving hundreds of thousands without any usable infrastructure.

We stand beside the General Federation of Trade Unions of Syria and the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions and we support their struggle for the release of affected people. We once again call the Trade Unions and the workers all over the globe to express their practical solidarity and practical support through the launched campaigns to make less painful this huge disaster.

The Secretariat

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Adapted from a presentation given at a Solidarity Committee of the Americas event in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 11.

I’m not a scholarly expert; I’m a maintenance worker in Minneapolis who volunteers with a local activist group called the Anti-War Committee. In May of 2021, I traveled with a peace delegation to Syria. The delegation spent one week in the country, in and around the capital Damascus, to witness elections that were taking place, and to investigate conditions on the ground with the hope of building solidarity and raising awareness about the effects that U.S. foreign policy has on life in Syria.

That said, this week in particular is one when everyone, expert or not, whether you’ve been there or not, should be talking about Syria. Last weekend’s earthquake heavily impacted northern Syria, near the border with Turkiye. The current estimate of the number of people who died in this tragedy stands at over 30,000 – around 4000 or so in Syria. Many of those who died in Turkiye were likely also Syrians – around 3.5 million Syrian refugees currently reside in Turkiye. Everyone can feel confident in demanding an end to U.S. sanctions on Syria in the aftermath of this tragedy.

This week, the Biden administration announced it would temporarily ease some sanctions on humanitarian aid to Syria. A few things about that: First of all, this is a stunning admission, because the U.S. previously had claimed that the sanctions on Syria don’t affect humanitarian supplies. Now they are admitting that sanctions needed to be lifted for aid to get in. To be clear, it’s good that the administration is doing something, if for no other reason than that it shows they are feeling some political pressure, and people are paying attention to the issue of sanctions. But it’s not nearly enough.

The massive tragedy comes on top of another massive tragedy, the war in Syria, which has killed at least half a million Syrians since 2012, and has been fueled by U.S. policy in a variety of ways.

U.S. officials, first during the Trump administration and now under Biden, have openly declared that the objective of U.S. sanctions on Syria is to prevent “reconstruction” – unless the Syrian government agrees to a new, U.S.-approved political system and geopolitical orientation for the country, effectively overriding its sovereign rights under international law. Specifically, the long-standing U.S. demand for Syria has been to normalize its relations with Israel and officially give up the Golan Heights region, which Israel has illegally occupied since 1967. Until Syria capitulates to these demands, the U.S. government’s policy boils down to collectively punishing all Syrians, civilians included, and forcing them to live in literally ruinous conditions.

You might say that under its current policies toward Syria, the U.S. is on the earthquake’s side. An earthquake means more ruined buildings that won’t get rebuilt, and more misery, poverty and death for Syrians, which effectively has been the U.S. policy for over a decade.

One of my most immediate impressions when we traveled to Syria was that in many areas, the shooting war is over. In the Damascus region where we visited, the government has restored control entirely, and while there were occasional checkpoints, to my surprise we were able to move about relatively freely. But the scars of the war were still everywhere. In some neighborhoods, there were just a few bullet holes here and there. In others, the destruction was total: ruined husks of apartment buildings and colossal mounds of concrete rubble stretched as far as we could see.

Despite the scenes of destruction, at the time of our trip (about a year and a half ago), people we spoke with were hopeful. Reconstruction was happening, although slowly. Here and there, renovated apartments stood out amid the ruins, sometimes in a jarring way, where shiny new balconies appeared next to uninhabitable ones within the same building. People we spoke with complained about a slow pace of reconstruction due to difficulties in sourcing building materials and equipment due to the sanctions. But they also repeatedly told us: things are getting better, the war is ending, tell Syrians living abroad that they can start returning home!

Unfortunately, by now that progress has been halted. U.S. sanctions, especially the Caesar Act, passed in 2019, have really begun to bite. Last year the Syrian currency collapsed, which was connected to a similar economic collapse in neighboring Lebanon (which in turn was exacerbated by U.S. sanctions on that country).

Meanwhile, the U.S. military continues to occupy Syria’s oilfields in the east of the country, illegally under international law, with not even the usual flimsy legalistic justification, just might-is-right conquest. “Keep the oil” was what Trump called the policy, and Biden has stayed the course. Most Syrians reportedly now only get two or three hours of electricity per day if they're lucky. Gasoline is so scarce that people can’t get to work. The government has even shifted to a four-day work week due to logistical difficulties as basic as transportation. Bakeries are closing. Cooking and heating oil are so scarce that according to reports, some Syrians must burn trash to heat their homes.

Syria has been sanctioned and labeled a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the U.S. since the late 1970s. This current horrific humanitarian situation is the result – not just as a consequence of the sanctions themselves, but also in how Syria has been portrayed to the American public. U.S. policies toward Syria have dehumanized Syrian people in the eyes of many, portraying the country as a zone of permanent destruction, as though this is somehow the natural state of things there.

Many Syrians we spoke with were adamant that it’s in fact the United States that is the real state sponsor of terrorism, especially inside Syria. They’re not wrong – the U.S. along with its regional allies bankrolled the war in Syria for many years, arming and paying the salaries of a patchwork of contra gangs that supposedly comprised the Free Syrian Army. I say “supposedly,” because there was never any unified organization of these groups – in reality they were no more than a disunified hodgepodge of militias, some local and others foreign, coming from places as far flung as Uzbekistan, China, France and the UK.

A significant number of these U.S.-armed and paid mercenaries would eventually take their weapons and defect to even more extreme reactionary groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS. At the same time, the U.S. supported the self-declared “Syrian National Council” – based outside of Syria – as a potential replacement for President Bashar al-Assad’s government, despite the fact that none of the U.S.-armed contras fighting on the ground even supported it. The unavoidable conclusion is that the U.S. never really intended for the armed groups to overthrow the Syrian government themselves – they only backed them up to a certain point, as a way to terrorize and coerce the Syrian people.

So with that I’ll conclude by saying that we all need to demand not only the end to U.S. sanctions, but for a broad change in U.S. policy toward Syria: let Syria rebuild; let Syrians recover from the earthquake and the war; end the occupation of Syria’s oil fields; end decades of dehumanization and destabilizing plots to coerce the Syrian people. Let Syrians determine their own future.

Wyatt Miller is an activist with the Minneapolis-based Anti-War Committee. In May 2021, he traveled with an international peace delegation to Syria, at the invitation of the Syria Support Movement and Arab Americans 4 Syria.

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The report states that, during a Friday meeting in Havana with the Syrian Ambassador Ghassan Obaid, Guevara stated, “The terrorist war targeted the Syrian people and distorted their civilization and ancient history, since Syria is a country that resists and rejects all forms of compromise and normalization.”

The report continued, “She noted the heroism of the Syrian Arab Army and reaffirmed her support for the Syrian people in their struggle against the Israeli occupation to liberate the occupied Syrian Arab Golan and her support for the liberation of all occupied Arab territories and the right of return for the Palestinian people and the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.”

The Syrian ambassador recalled that Che Guevara had visited Syria in 1959.

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St. Paul, MN – Around 30 people lined the busy Lake Street-Marshall Avenue bridge over the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and Saint Paul, June 30, to protest the latest U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. The action was called by Women Against Military Madness and supported by the Anti-War Committee, the Minnesota Peace Action Coalition and other local groups. Peace vigils have been held at the bridge every Wednesday for over 20 years, regardless of weather.

This latest vigil followed the Biden administration’s June 27 announcement that U.S. warplanes had dropped bombs on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border. Several people were reportedly killed in the attack. The targets were militias with Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), which formed in 2014 to stop the reactionary Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group’s rapid advances.

In 2018, the PMF was incorporated into the official security forces of the Iraqi state. The Biden administration said the airstrikes were in response to attacks on U.S. troops by the PMF, which it characterized as “Iran-backed.”

Militant resistance to the U.S. occupation of Iraq intensified after the January 2020 assassinations of top PMF commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. The assassinations prompted Iraq’s parliament to call for an immediate U.S. withdrawal, which the U.S. rebuffed. After the June 27 airstrikes, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi condemned the airstrikes as a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.

At the bridge vigil in Minnesota, Iraqi-American activist Sami Rasouli agreed. “When the military of Iraq was dissolved, Iraq became a wide open arena,” he said. “When ISIS in 2014 invaded Iraq, the Iraqi army that was dissolved came back again, and now is still growing, to defend not only Iraq but Syria too, and Iran.”

Wyatt Miller of the Anti-War Committee added, “These kinds of airstrikes always run the risk of triggering a major regional war. We need to oppose the sanctions, too, and oppose the U.S. military occupation not only of Iraq but of the oilfields in eastern Syria, all of which are contributing to Syria’s inability to rebuild after the war.” In May, Miller travelled with a peace delegation to observe conditions in Syria firsthand.

Syria, which allows the Iraqi PMF to operate on its territory, also condemned the airstrikes, reporting that U.S. bombs had struck a residential building and killed a child while injuring several more civilians. Hours after the airstrikes, U.S. forces occupying Syria’s al-Omar oil field came under rocket attack by resistance forces in the area.

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