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SanctionsKill Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures

Syria is a particularly informative example of the ways in which Unilateral Coercive Measures have caused extreme suffering for the people while they did nothing to end the cited abuses of their government.  The charitable works funded by Syria Support Movement allowed us to have an inside look at the …

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Mother Agnes And Aid for Alawites Under Seige in the ‘New’ Syria

Max Blumenthal speaks to Mother Superior Agnes Mariam De La Croix, published by The Grayzone, May 2, 2025 Max Blumenthal speaks to Mother Superior Agnes Mariam De La Croix, a Lebanese Christian nun, as she organizes a second convoy of aid and food to the Alawite community which has been …

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Syria’s Stolen Daughters: The HTS Campaign to Enslave Alawite Women

by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, April 23, 2025 In Post-Assad Syria, the Mass Abduction and Sexual Enslavement of Alawite Women Under Sharaa’s Rule Mirrors the Darkest Atrocities of ISIS—Yet is Met With Global Silence. Since December, when the former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), toppled …

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The US–Israeli Strategy to Weaken Arab Armies

by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, April 16, 2025 For decades, Washington has ensured Israel’s military dominance by systematically weakening Arab armies. Lebanon is the most current and obvious example of this doctrine in practice The US does not merely support Israel – it guarantees the occupation state’s …

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The Brutal Sectarian History of Western, Zionist and Turkish Proxies in Syria

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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Exclusive Interview: Voice from Syria – The Future After Attacks on Alawites and Christians Steven Sahiounie

Steven Sahiounie, published by PointS News on Youtube, March 31, 2025 This is an interview with our friend Steven Sahiounie who lives in Latakia.   I hope he and his family stay  safe there.   [jb] As a journalist who has witnessed the complexities of the Syrian conflict firsthand, I’m proud to …

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What is Really Happening in Syria; Testimonies from Survivors; 40,000 Killed in HTS Genocide

This is a powerful video from FreePalestineTV.video.   It includes some difficult images, but what stands out is an interview with a particularly articulate gentleman, an Alawite now living in a refugee center in a town in Lebanon.  Click the image below to view it.  

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Israeli Army Organizes ‘Hiking Tours’ for Jewish Settlers in Occupied Syria

from the News Desk at The Cradle, April 4, 2025 The Israeli army is organizing hiking tours for civilians inside recently occupied Syrian territory during the upcoming Passover holiday, according to Israeli media reports. The tours, coordinated by the Israeli military’s Northern Command and 210th Division alongside the “Friends on …

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Alawites and Christians: Behind Syria’s Silent, Sectarian Slaughter

by Hamide Rencus, published on The Cradle, March 28, 2025 The massacres and repression of Alawites and Christians in Syria began immediately after the fall of Damascus and have continued for the past three and a half months. On 7 December 2024, the day after the capital city fell to …

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