After the Fall

byKit Klarenberg, published on Global Delinquents, July 25, 2025 On July 19th, the Mail on Sunday revealed that Inter-Mediate, a shadowy firm founded by Jonathan Powell, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s National Security Advisor, brokered re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Damascus and London, and a heavily-publicised meeting between Foreign Secretary …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, August 4, 2025 At least 254 people have been murdered in Syria since the beginning of the year, including many on sectarian grounds The above seems like a ridiculous undercount, but I suppose they are not counting the massacres of Druze and Alawites …

by the Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published July 13, 2025 SSM Editor’s Note: If you can stand to look at these images, they are no different than the work of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al Nusra and the many other salafist groups large and small that flooded Syria (with assistance from …

Statement by Bronx Antiwar Coalition, July 19, 2025 FYI: Apparently, these events began the day after the Syrian President returned from his meeting with Israeli officials in Azerbaijan  [jb] Tensions in southern Syria are escalating at a staggering rate. Yesterday, mainstream headlines reported that Israeli jets bombed Damascus and targeted …

Below is a report by Ismaeel Abdur-Rasheed from his Facebook Page.  The references in the Arabic press are gone, i.e., the pages are no longer available online.  More on this in a later post.  Al Mayadeen has removed the articles, and Syrian News outlets have gone dark. Sweida is strewn with …

by al Hawar News Agency (ANHA), July 16, 2025 Fighting reignited in Sweida city, southern Syria, on Tuesday, just hours after a ceasefire was announced. Eyewitnesses reported that local armed factions launched a counterattack inside the city, regaining strategic positions around the National Hospital, the central market, and Tishreen Square, …

by the Cradle’s Lebanon Correspondent, published on The Cradle, July 16, 2025 Unsatisfied with its significant control over northern Syria and Iraq, Ankara is seeking to establish a political, security, and economic foothold in northern Lebanon – while Beirut watches impotently. SSM Editor: The vultures are circling.   As Lebanon grapples …

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, May 21, 2025 The administration of prisons of the Syrian government continues blackout regarding the situation of thousands of detainees who have been held in Hama, Adra and Harem prisons for nearly five months and 11 days ago without legal grounds or clear judicial process, …

by Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, May 30, 2025 Aleppo province: SOHR activists have documented a series of disappearances of civilians, including minor girls, in Aleppo city and eastern countryside in May. In this context, uncertainty surrounds the circumstances of the disappearance of the those civilians, while security services have …

by the Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, June The rise of a London-born Muslim Brotherhood activist to the heart of Damascus politics reveals even deeper layers to the UK’s long war to rebrand Al-Qaeda power as legitimate Syrian governance. When Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa (previously known as Abu …