Investigative Report

by Kit Klarenberg, published on Global Delinquents, July 5, 2026 On June 27th, a plane ferrying a “specialized” team of “highly trained search and rescue specialists” flew into Venezuela from Damascus. Dispatched at putative Syrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa’s direct order, the 15-strong group is assisting disaster efforts launched by Caracas …

by the Iraq Correspondent at the Cradle, July 14, 2026 Baghdad’s latest anti-corruption sweep extends beyond previous campaigns, with the arrests forming part of a broader US-backed effort to reshape Iraq’s political and security landscape.   For years, corruption arrests in Iraq were largely confined to lower-ranking employees, detained on charges …

by a Cradle Correspondent, published on The Cradle, December 17, 2025 Editor’s note: It appears that Ahmad al-Sharaa and his family have taken Syria as their private fiefdom, canceled the socialism and pan-Arabism of the Baathist Assads, and gutted the substance of the Syrian Republic while unempowering and disinheriting members …

by Ben Arthur Thomasson, published on CovertAction Magazine, July 10, 2025 [This is the second of a two-part series. Part I can be found here—Editors] Part 2 of a series exposing the farce of so-called U.S. “democracy promotion” From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed …

by Ben Arthur Thomasson, published on CovertAction Magazine, May 2025 This is the first of a 4 part series showing the depth of U.S. Intervention in Syria.  Research reveals a decades long battle to get rid of the sovereign nationalist government of Syria and replace it with a puppet.  [jb] …

byKit Klarenberg, published on Global Delinquents, July 25, 2025 On July 19th, the Mail on Sunday revealed that Inter-Mediate, a shadowy firm founded by Jonathan Powell, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s National Security Advisor, brokered re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Damascus and London, and a heavily-publicised meeting between Foreign Secretary …

by the Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published July 13, 2025 SSM Editor’s Note: If you can stand to look at these images, they are no different than the work of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al Nusra and the many other salafist groups large and small that flooded Syria (with assistance from …

by Kevork Almassian, published on Substack, May 29, 2025 What happened in Aleppo on November 27, 2024, was not just a battlefield event—it was a political earthquake. The rapid fall of the city, and with it the backbone of the Assad regime’s military presence in northern Syria, sent shockwaves through …

by Vanessa Beeley, published on Substack, May 2, 2025 When it comes to the world of Private Military Companies (PMC) or Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC), public perception has been conditioned to think of the Russian Wagner Group, formerly led by the maverick Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. Western commentators …