by Judy Bello, based on:News from France 24, August 25, 2026 “Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tuesday announced the dissolution of the group in a televised speech from the presidential palace in Damascus. The dissolution followed the integration of SDF fighters into …
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by Vijay Prashad, published on the LA Progressive, August 24, 2026 The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For six months, US missiles and bombs have fallen upon civilian and military targets inside the country. Hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and …
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 24, 2026 How will Iran survive the latest round of what President Donald Trump calls “draconian sanctions” that promise to be the most extreme strangulation ever imposed? Iran has developed highly sophisticated, high tech, asymmetric, low-cost, well hidden weapons to defend their …
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by Mehmet Ali Guller, published on The Cradle, August 24, 2026 The “Kurdish Opening” being pursued by Turkiye is not independent of the events taking place in West Asia. In fact, this latest opening, launched for the fourth time by the same government, aims to take advantage of the window …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, August 7, 2026 Eight of the world’s largest oil majors reported almost $93 billion in profits over three months to the end of June, nearly double their combined earnings from a year earlier, The Guardian reported on 4 August. The April to June period …
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by Eli Gerzon, published on Electronic Intifada, August 4, 2026 This piece from Electronic Intifada has a wealth of sources and information on the subject at hand and current forces in West Asia. Israel and Iran are unique for starkly different reasons: Israel has less of a right to exist …
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Dear Friends, If the war in southwest Asia, AKA the Middle East, is not as hot as earlier, it is because Iran has fought the US and Israel to a standstill. The US is running low on munitions and in any case has learned that further use of those munitions …
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by Alastair Crooke, published on Conflicts Forum, July 24, 2026 The Third Phase of the War — Iran believes it has succeeded in achieving its strategic goals in this round of the war / AnsarAllah’s Blockade on Saudi Arabia — ‘Blockade for blockade’ / A more vengeful President Trump; diplomatic resolution …
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by William VanWaganen, published on The Cradle, June 30, 2026 When The Cradle arrived in the Lebanese town of Nabatieh on the afternoon of 18 June, the sight of the immense damage inflicted by months of Israeli bombing was shocking. Particularly hard hit was the town center, home to the …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, August 3, 2026 Washington is beginning “a previously arranged” and “preplanned” drawdown in Iraq, which will see it withdraw forces from the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region, according to Asharq al-Awsat’s report released on 2 August. Kifah Mahmoud, media advisor to the president of …
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