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 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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from The News Desk at The Cradle, July 22,2026 As global attention remains fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, another chokepoint is being disrupted: Bab al-Mandab. Located between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and squeezed between Djibouti and Yemen, the strait carries 12 percent of global trade and one-quarter …
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by Vanesssa Beeley, pubilshed on Substack, July 19, 2026 On Friday 17th July, Iran carried out an extensive attack on the US occupation base at Al Tanf in Syria. A drone and missile strike targeted a US Special Operations Command base in south-eastern Syria..the first strike on Syrian territory since …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, July 15, 2025 According to data released by the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) on 14 July, more than 200 non-Iranian vessels applied for passage permits and insurance coverage during the three weeks between the signing of the Islamabad memorandum of understanding (MoU) …
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from The Syrian Observer, July 15, 2026 One year after a dispute in the al-Maqous neighbourhood escalated into three days of devastating violence, Suweida remains caught between a central government unwilling to acknowledge the full extent of the atrocities, an increasingly coercive local authority and communities whose grief has hardened …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, July 20, 2026 Washington announced the launch of its so-called “pilot zones” program in south Lebanon on 20 July, as part of a US-brokered deal between Beirut and Tel Aviv that was signed last month in violation of Lebanese laws. “Today, pilot zone …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Le français est ci- dessous) Canadian civil society groups call for Canada to withdraw from NATO and cancel plans for a NATO war bank Wednesday, July 8, 2026 (Waterloo, ON) As the NATO Summit is underway in Ankara, Türkiye, the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network (CWPJN) has …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, July 14, 2026 Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi said on 13 July that the most dangerous threats in the region come not from Iran but from Israel, while lambasting the “myth” of the policy of “containment” that has for years targeted the Islamic …
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