News From The Cradle, May 23, 2025 Syria’s path to having sanctions removed is virtually impossible. The three stipulations ignore the real issues facing the new government and the horrors facing the Syrian people. Getting rid of the Palestinians, well, maybe; embracing the SDF and controlling ISIS, unlikely; normalization with …
Read More »A Discussion About Israel’s Geopolitics in the Middle East | Syriana Analysis
Dr. Karim Bettache, Kevork Almassian and Dr. Tarik Cyril Amar, published on Syriana Analysis This is a very interesting, and I think, important discussion about the wars in the Middle East and Syria’s centrality to regional security. There will likely be opinions expressed that you disagree with, but these guys …
Read More »New Syria and project to remove Palestinian Resistance Factions from Damascus
by Al Waqht News, published on ABNA 24, April 29, 2025 Ahlulbayt News Agency: Amid extreme thirst of the new Syrian government for regional and international approval and legitimacy and while the interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, better known for his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has stepped up his …
Read More »Syrian Security Forces Detain Palestinian Resistance Leaders
from The News Desk, published on The Cradle, April 22, 2025 Two top officials from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement in Syria have been detained by Syrian security forces. Khaled Khaled, head of PIJ operations in Syria, and Yasser al-Zafari, head of the organizational committee, were arrested five days …
Read More »HTS Officials Order Palestinian Resistance Factions to Disarm, Close Bases in Syria: Report
from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 13, 2024 The new rulers in Damascus are taking actions to prevent the Palestinians from defending themselves or resisting Israel Representatives from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the new ruling extremist organization in Damascus, informed the representatives of the Palestinian factions in Syria …
Read More »UNAC Statement On the Overthrow of the Syrian Government
UNAC Statement, December 10, 2024 This is a moment to salute and remember the martyrs and resistance fighters in Syria, who for decades and against all odds held firm against U.S. imperialist domination. Because imperialism has no solutions the struggle will regroup and break forth again and each time at …
Read More »The Economic War Against Syria
by Roberta Rivolta, published on Counter-Hegemonic Studies, December 4, 2024 As ancient as economic wars may be, the use of embargoes as means of coercion experienced a significant acceleration only at the end of the Cold War. While the collapse of the USSR reduced the risk that a targeted nation …
Read More »Assad and Larijani’s Message of Alliance: Standing with Palestine and Lebanon
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 14, 2024 Assad and Larijani’s Message of Alliance: Standing with Palestine and Lebanon In the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Ali Larijani, a senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, have reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Palestine and Lebanon …
Read More »Why Anti-Imperialists Must Defend Syria and the Axis of Resistance
by Richie Merino, published on Workers World, September 11, 2024 The anti-colonial struggle against U.S./Western imperialism and the Zionist settler state has long shaped the geopolitical dynamics of West Asia. Syria stands at the epicenter of this struggle as a vital member of the Axis of Resistance, a united front …
Read More »What role for the UN in post-conflict Gaza?
by Peter Ford, originally published at Katoikos.World https://katoikos.world/analysis/what-role-for-the-un-in-post-conflict-gaza.html With the Israel-Hamas conflict still possibly having months to run and with even the outlines of an end state still far from clear, trying to chart a course for the UN at this juncture is challenging. It is nevertheless possible to identify …
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