from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 26, 2024 The ambush was reportedly carried out by former elements of the Syrian Arab Army, coming during an eruption of sectarian tensions across Syria Clashes raged in Syria on 26 December between the remnants of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and …
Read More »Alawites Are Syrians Too
by Peter Ford, published on 21st Century Wire, December 27, 2024 Alawites in their towns and villages in the Tartous and Lattakia provinces of Syria are being subjected to hideous pogroms under the new Islamist dispensation in Syria. And the world turns its back. The Alawites are just too inconvenient …
Read More »The “King-Makers” Pull the Rug from Syria, Yet Again… A “Greek Tragedy” Begins
by Alastair Crooke, published on Strategic Culture, December 23, 2024 Syria has been disintegrated and pillaged in the name of ‘liberating’ Syrians from the threat of ISIS, which they – Washington – had installed in the first place. James Jeffrey, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, in a March …
Read More »A new Geo-Political Map is Unfolding – The end of Syria
by Alastair Crooke, published on Strategic Culture, December 16, 2024 Israelis generally are celebrating their ‘victories’. Will this euphoria weigh with U.S. business élites? Syria has entered the abyss – the demons of al-Qa’eda, ISIS, and the most intransigent elements of the Muslim Brotherhood are circling the skies. There is …
Read More »Syrian Minorities Under Threat
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 …
Read More »Syria’s Assad Has Fallen – Just as the Pentagon Planned 23 Years Ago
by Jonathan Cook, published on Defend Democracy, December 11, 2024 When westerners see ‘enemy’ governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth The long-harboured aspirations of the US, Turkey and Israel …
Read More »All Factions in Syria to Be Dissolved, no Mandatory Draft: Al-Sharaa (Al Jolani)
News from Al Mayadeen, December 17, 2024 The US is deliberating lifting sanctions. But I am still wondering who will pay for this, and for how long. Ahmad al-Sharaa, the head of the Military Operations Administration in Syria, revealed a set of decisions currently under review by the country’s interim …
Read More »Controversy Hits CNN over ‘Staged’ Report on Syrian Prisoner Rescue
from the News Desk at the Cradle, December 17,2024 CNN has acknowledged that a report filed by star journalist Clarissa Ward from Syria claiming to show her discovering a prisoner in a Damascus jail was false. The description of the video report stated that “Clarissa Ward discovers a man in …
Read More »Has the Resistance in West Asia Been Defeated?
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein, published on Workers World, December 20, 2024 A Venezuelan international relations expert, Rodriguez Gelfenstein was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country’s ambassador to Nicaragua and an adviser for international politics for TeleSUR. Translation: John Catalinotto. …
Read More »Israel’s Calculus in Syria: Exploit Anarchy for Strategic Dominance
by Khalil Nasrallah, published on The Cradle, December 16, 2024 In its unobstructed territorial grab and destruction of Syria’s military infrastructure, Tel Aviv hopes to either expand its borders into a newly partitioned Syria, or to use its gains as negotiating chips in a grand bargain for regional primacy. Thirteen …
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