from the News Desk at The Cradle, May 12, 2025 Syria’s self-appointed interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa will not attend the upcoming Arab League summit in the Iraqi capital, according to an Arab diplomatic source who spoke with AFP on 12 May. In his stead, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani will lead …
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by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, May 6, 2025 In late April, Syria plunged into renewed sectarian violence, with clashes erupting between extremist Sunni factions affiliated with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) Syrian government and Druze armed groups in Suwayda and Damascus, leaving at least 100 dead. A …
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by Vanessa Beeley, published on Substack, April 13, 2025 Vanessa Beeley has spent a great deal of time in Syria interviewing ordinary people caught in the horrific proxy war to destroy the Republic of Syria. It is a painfully graphic reminder of what a war on an innocent population really …
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by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, March 19, 2025 On 27 November w024, militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, launched a lighting assault on Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city. Amid the chaos, Armenian born professor Yervant Arslanian was assassinated by a suspected …
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by The Grayzone and Antiwar.com, published on The Grayzone, March 13, 2025 Editor’s note: Sectarian Sunni forces linked to the new HTS-led government of Syria have massacred over 1300 Alawites in the past week, according to a conservative estimate. The Grayzone has spoken to staff from a Western aid organization …
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from le Boulesversement, March, 2025 Editor’s note: This article is from what I assume is someone’s private blog. You might call him an Assadist, but that’s beside the point. I liked the title and the fact that he assembled the 2 speeches for comparison. Al-Sharaa’s speech is all over the …
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by Fuad Walid Itayim, published on The Cradle, January 31, 2025 For years, many speculated what Syria – a country with deep religious and cultural diversity – would look like if the armed, extremist-dominated opposition managed to overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s government. Early in the war, even Assad’s staunchest critics began …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 29, 2024 Reports of sectarian killings and ethnic cleansing of Alawites and Christians continue to emerge as Ahmad al-Sharaa’s new government seeks to exert control over the country The new Syrian government led by former Al-Qaeda leader Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani …
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