by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, December 22, 2024 This is a different and very interesting reflection of the precipitous collapse of the Syrian government and the transition to new leadership, ostensibly financed and directed by Turkish/Qatari and U.S./Israeli money, training and equipment. The date is interesting as well. …
Read More »Stealing water: Israel’s Covert War on Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, January 14, 2025 At the beginning of January, less than a month after rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled the Syrian government, Israeli occupation forces launched an unchallenged advance extending to the vicinity of the Al-Mantara Dam – a critical water source …
Read More »Ceasefire Is Not The End
by Jonathan Kuttab, published on FOSNA Website, January 17, 2025 We need to report this though it is not directly about Syria. I like this article because it focuses on the details of the present interaction and what it leaves open. [jb] It looks as if there will finally be …
Read More »Sednaya: Investigating Syria’s Most Notorious Prison
by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, December 24, 2024 This article is an important counter to some of the horrific propaganda spewed by the Western press (and Al Jazeera) since the overthrow of the legitimate Syrian government in a coup perpetrated by the same entities that waged war …
Read More »How the West Destroyed Syria
by Rick Sterling, published on Dissident Voice, January 11, 2024 Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Bahrein (1999-2003) and then Syria (2003-2006). Following that, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of United Nations Relief and …
Read More »Only Force will Stop Genocide
by Paul Larudee, published on Paul’s Substack, January 4, 2025 We have long passed the point of mobilizing world opinion against Israel’s shameless and wanton slaughter of countless defenseless civilian Palestinian men, women, children and even the unborn. They are countless because no one has the means to count those …
Read More »Turkish FM Vows to Defeat US-backed SDF in Syria
from The News Desk at The Cradle, January 10, 2025 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated on 10 January that Turkiye is determined to defeat the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria in 2025, as heavy fighting between the SDF and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) continues near …
Read More »13m Syrians Food Insecure, UN Warns
News from Middle East Monitor, January 9, 2025 Editor’s note: When is the last time anyone noted that the population of Syria is “Food Insecure”. I suppose that “recent improvements” include US release of some of Syria’s wheat from the area they occupy in the East. Then we have “millions …
Read More »Erdogan’s Dual Kurdish Strategy: Peace Talks vs Reconfiguring Syria Militarily
by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, January 8, 2025 Turkiye’s renewed push to resolve the Kurdish question – through a mix of delicate negotiations with an incarcerated separatist icon and military action in Syria – could either pave the way for peace or deepen divisions in a region facing collapse. …
Read More »Evaluating Bashar al-Assad’s Human Rights Record in Syria
by Joe Emsberger and Justin Podur, published on The Anti Empire Project, December 15, 2024 Can resisting the genocidal US Empire be a stain on your human rights record? By a slave owner’s reading of history, Abraham Lincoln butchered 260,000 to 400,000 of his “own people” in the South to …
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