Analysis

Alistair Crooke’s Conflicts Forum on substack, January 12, 2026 China’s ‘Kill Switch’ Just Erased the Iranian Regime-Change ‘Protestors’ / ‘Iran playing it strategically & managing the chaos efficiently’ / Veteran Israeli commentator Ehud Yaari: ‘We do not see clear cracks in the Iranian regime, in the government, nor the Army …

by Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron, Distributed by Globetrotter., January 6, 2026 Editor’s Note: Yes, I know that Venezuela is not in West Asia.  However, it is fighting for it’s life as a sovereign nation against the same demon that is stomping on West Asia.    On the early morning …

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. …

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 Phil Taylor and Jeremy Kuzmarov, The Taylor Report, December 8, 2025 00:00:00 – Phil Taylor Good morning. Welcome to CIUT 89.5 FM in Toronto. This is the Taylor Report. I’m Phil Taylor, your host. We’re going to be talking today with one of the authors of a book, “Syria, …

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 …

Conflicts Forum, December 16, 2025 A compilation tracking consequential & strategic observations in West Asia (Lebanon & Syria) — Analysis & reports from the Arabic/ regional press & other sources (16 Dec 2025) US-Israeli Coercion of Normalisation on Lebanon — The US-Israeli-Saudi-UAE nexus and the Lebanese Right / ‘Hezbollah will …

by Aaron Mate, published on the Grayzone@Youtube. December 13, 2025 Interesting interview by Aaron Maté with Hamas Leader and Spokesperson Dr. Bassam Naim:

by Rima Najjar, published on Global Research, December 8, 2025 For the first time in the history of the U.S.-Israel relationship, Washington has moved beyond arming, funding, and diplomatically shielding Israeli violence and has instead inserted its own military personnel, intelligence systems, and command structures into Israel’s war machine. It …

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 …