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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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