After the Fall

from the News Desk at The Cradle, May 4, 2026 Israel is expanding its control over territory in southern Syria, not merely through military means, but also through the purchase of agricultural lands by individuals of Jewish descent holding multiple nationalities, Al-Akhbar reported on 4 May. According to a local …

by Malak al-Zoubi, published on the Syrian Observer, January 28, 2026 Editor’s Note:  I don’t know much about Riad Hijab, but the description of al-Sharaa/al Jolani’s credentials tell’s you all you need to know about his qualification to govern a country,   And we won’t mention who chose him as the …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, January 9, 2026 Editor’s Note:  Sad to say, neither of these organizations represents the Syrian people.   Yes, the Kurds aren’t as deeply violent as Jolani’s crew, but they are just as avaricious and power hungry.   In any case, they are fighting it out …

Statement by Bronx Antiwar Coalition, December 31, 2025 One Year After Syria’s Destruction, the Regime-Change Playbook Is Being Reused In December 2024, the United States, Israel, NATO, and their European allies completed what they had pursued for more than a decade: the destruction of Syria as a sovereign, anti-imperialist state. …

From The Cradle, published December 1, 2025 Beneath Syria’s ministries and decrees lies a shadow economy controlled by the Sharaa brothers and a foreign-born operative, whose journey from Idlib militancy to the heart of Damascus exposes how power and profit intertwine in the post-Assad state. Since the fall of former Syrian …

by Marwa Osman, comments from Facebook, December 24, 2025 Gang wars in Aleppo.  Again.  How sad.  [jb] What is unfolding today in Syria, particularly the clashes between the Syrian government and the SDF in Aleppo, is not an isolated security incident. It is a pressure point in a much wider …

by Kevork Almassian, published on Kevork’s Newsletter, December 14, 2025 As Washington blesses monarchies and Jolani echoes Baghdadi’s words from the Umayyad Mosque, Syria is being steered from broken republic to Islamic throne. SSM Editor:  External forces are building a new Syria on the Saudi Model, only without the fortune …

by Mohamad Shams Eddine, published on The Cradle, December 3, 2025 For every assassination Israel carries out against a Hezbollah commander, a familiar question reverberates through Lebanon’s resistance circles: how did they track him? Within Hezbollah, operational security is almost sacrosanct. Senior figures adhere to rigid, high-level protocols designed to evade …

by Vanessa Beeley, published on Substack, November 20, 2025 On 24 October, around 9pm, extremist thugs affiliated with the HTS ruling regime in Syria threw a hand grenade into the home of a schoolteacher in the Al Waleed suburb of Homs (central Syria). Riham Nizar Hammouda (image below) was 32 …

by Qassem Muaddi and Michael Arria, published on  Mondoweiss, November 17, 2025 On Monday, the United Nations Security Council approved the Trump administration’s “peace plan” for Gaza. The resolution calls for the establishment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to demilitarize and govern Gaza while Israel withdraws from the area. …