by Rima Najjar, published on Countercurrents, October 10, 2025 Trump’s deal heralded as peace perpetuates the colonial partition of Palestine and defies the spirit of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Vision Author’s Note This essay indicts Donald Trump’s October 2025 peace proposal for perpetuating the erasure of Palestinian history and reinforcing a legacy …
Read More »Hezbollah Chief Says Lebanese Govt ‘Bears Full Responsibility for Any Civil Strife’
from the News Desk at The Cradle, published August 15, 2025 Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a speech on 15 August that the Lebanese government bears responsibility for any civil strife that may occur over its decision on disarming the resistance earlier this month. “The Lebanese government bears full …
Read More »SDF, Syrian Government Forces Face Off in Aleppo Clashes
from the News Desk at The Cradle, August 4, 2025 Armed clashes erupted early in the morning on 4 August between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian government forces near the town of Deir Hafer in northern Syria. The US-backed SDF issued a statement saying that factions affiliated …
Read More »US Envoy Mediates ‘De-Escalation’ Talks Between Senior Israeli, Syrian Officials
from the News Desk at the Cradle, published July 25 Hardly worth posting except as a reminder of who’s calling the shots (SSM Editor) Negotiations between Damascus and Tel Aviv are resuming after a series of violent Israeli strikes on Syria last week. The US envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, …
Read More »Israeli Army Closes in on Damascus as Baku Talks Aim to ‘Reshape’ Southern Syria
from the News Desk at the Cradle, August 1, 2025 As diplomatic negotiations seek to determine the future of southern Syria, Israeli military operations are intensifying around Suwayda and the outskirts of Damascus. A new round of talks, reportedly set to take place in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, between Syria’s Foreign …
Read More »Clashes, Homes Torched in South Syria’s Sweida Despite Ceasefire
from Agence France-Presse, published on Al-Monitor, July 19, 2025 Smoke rose from burning houses in south Syria’s Sweida on Saturday and an Arab tribal fighter vowed to “slaughter” residents as deadly clashes with Druze fighters persisted. Just hours earlier, Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa had announced an immediate ceasefire, but …
Read More »Syrian Presidency Thwarts Suwayda Peace Initiative
by al Hawar (ANHA), July 18, 2025 The transitional government presidency in Syria has thwarted a truce agreement aimed at ending the bloody tensions between the people of Suwayda and the tribes in the south, despite extensive mediation efforts involving dignitaries from Daraa and religious leaders from Suwayda. The Presidential …
Read More »Israel Bombs Damascus as Clashes Escalate Between Druze, Government Forces
from the News Desk at The Cradle, July 16, 2025 The Israeli air force carried out an attack on the entrance to the Syrian General Staff Headquarters in the capital Israel renewed its attacks on Syria on 16 July as fierce clashes between government forces and Druze militant factions in …
Read More »Inside the Cyber Operation That Cracked Assad’s Leadership
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 …
Read More »Britain’s Hidden Hand in Syria: How Jonathan Powell and Inter Mediate Shaped a New Order
by Malek Hafez, from Facebook published on The Syrian Observer, May 26, 2025 While London has avoided presenting itself as an official sponsor of Syria’s transitional authorities, its fingerprints are increasingly visible, Malek Hafez argues. In a significant revelation that sheds new light on the architecture of Syria’s post-Assad political …
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