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Druze vs Sunni: Israel’s Sectarian Game in Syria

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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Druze Near Syria’s Capital Resist Demand to Turn in Arms as Tensions Boil

Reporting by Yamam Al Shaar and Firas Makdesi, writing by Maya Gebeily editing by Gareth Jones, produced by Reuters, May 6, 2025 Editor’s note: Coverage by the Mainstream News is significantly improved over that during the war and the last years of the Republic governed by Bashar Assad. [jb] JARAMANA, …

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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 …

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How Syria’s HTS is Quietly Dismantling the Palestinian Cause

by The Cradle’s Palestine Correspondent, published on The Cradle, March 25, 2025 Since the fall of the Syrian government on 8 December, the direction of the new interim administration, headed by Ahmad al-Sharaa, has become increasingly clear. Politically, militarily, and legally, Damascus now appears aligned with Washington’s long-standing vision of …

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Multiple Casualties Following New Israeli Attacks On Syria

from the Newsdesk at The Cradle, March 25, 2025 The Israeli army said it opened fire and called in an airstrike on ‘terrorists’ in the town of Koya, west of Deraa At least seven people were killed in Israeli attacks on the town of Koya west of southern Syria’s Deraa …

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Syria’s Genocide, Claiming Over 10,000 Lives, Is Not A Sectarian Conflict

by Fiorella Isabel, published on the Orinoco Tribune, March 18, 2025 Framed as sectarian war, the Syrian genocide and assaults on Gaza and Yemen are part of a long-standing UK-US-Israeli-Western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the Axis of Resistance. Syria’s massacres that can be defined by …

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Inside the HTS-Israeli Campaign to Eliminate Syria’s Military Engineers and Scientists

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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The Battle Between ‘Greater Israel’ and “Neo-Ottomanism” in Syria

by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, March 20, 2025 In January, Israel’s Security and Force Building Budget Examination Committee – known as the Nagel Committee, after its chairman Yaakov Nagel – released a report highlighting the potential security threat posed by a Syrian–Turkish alliance. The committee warned that …

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Israeli Troops Stole ‘Mountains Of Cash and Gold’ From Gaza, Lebanon, Syria

from the News Desk at The Cradle, February 28, 2025 The Israeli military’s “Loot Unit” has seized enough weaponry to establish “a small army,” as well as “mountains” of cash and gold since launching the wars in the Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon, and Syria, Ynet reported on 28 February. “We …

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