by Rick Sterling, published on Dissident Voice, January 11, 2024 Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Bahrein (1999-2003) and then Syria (2003-2006). Following that, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of United Nations Relief and …
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by Paul Larudee, published on Paul’s Substack, January 4, 2025 We have long passed the point of mobilizing world opinion against Israel’s shameless and wanton slaughter of countless defenseless civilian Palestinian men, women, children and even the unborn. They are countless because no one has the means to count those …
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from The News Desk at The Cradle, January 10, 2025 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated on 10 January that Turkiye is determined to defeat the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria in 2025, as heavy fighting between the SDF and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) continues near …
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News from Middle East Monitor, January 9, 2025 Editor’s note: When is the last time anyone noted that the population of Syria is “Food Insecure”. I suppose that “recent improvements” include US release of some of Syria’s wheat from the area they occupy in the East. Then we have “millions …
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by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, January 8, 2025 Turkiye’s renewed push to resolve the Kurdish question – through a mix of delicate negotiations with an incarcerated separatist icon and military action in Syria – could either pave the way for peace or deepen divisions in a region facing collapse. …
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by Joe Emsberger and Justin Podur, published on The Anti Empire Project, December 15, 2024 Can resisting the genocidal US Empire be a stain on your human rights record? By a slave owner’s reading of history, Abraham Lincoln butchered 260,000 to 400,000 of his “own people” in the South to …
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by Mouin Rabbani on X, republished on Vanessa Beeley’s Substack, December 29, 2024 A little New Years treat for people interested in Syria. ~jb Despite the shock reverberating around the region there are the first signs that Syria will not die as an ancient, pluralist civilization ~vb A thread covering …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, January 2, 2025 The Israeli air force launched a violent attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus on 2 January, coming as Israel’s military continues to expand its occupation in the country, reaching a key dam in the southern Quneitra area. Syrian media …
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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 …
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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 …
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