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 …
Read More »Shadow rule: How the Sharaa family and a foreign-born operative built Syria’s new deep economy
From The Cradle, published December 1, 2025 Beneath Syria’s ministries and decrees lies a shadow economy controlled by the Sharaa brothers and a foreign-born operative, whose journey from Idlib militancy to the heart of Damascus exposes how power and profit intertwine in the post-Assad state. Since the fall of former Syrian …
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