Al Qaeda

Source: SYRIA TV (Opposition website, July 21, 2023 The Syrian pound has surpassed the critical threshold of ten thousand against the US dollar, signalling an imminent and potentially more severe collapse in the days to come. According to the recently released 2023 World Bank report, the real GDP of Syria …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 17, 2023 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his plan to return Syrian refugees in Turkey to Aleppo. For many years he has proposed a plan to create a safe zone, or de-escalation zone specifically developed to hold the millions of …

From the News Desk at The Cradle, June 21, 2023 Egyptian researcher and political analyst Ahmad Sultan was quoted as saying on 21 June that many of the extremist militants who left Syria for the Ukrainian battlefield last year have realized that the fight against Russia is futile. “The jihadists …

by William Van Wagenen, published on The Cradle, February 2, 2023 In January 2023, reports emerged that Alexanda Kotey, known as “Jihadi George” and one of the four British ISIS members collectively known as the “Beatles,” had disappeared from the custody of the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In 2022, …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, February  23, 2023 I highly suggest reading some of the linked articles.  HTS is apparently ‘taxing’ aid providers and ‘managing’ distribution in Idlib, while the main body of Syrians are denied aid entirely due to U.S. sanctions.  An Arabic language article that is …

from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, published on February 17, 2023 Some 20 prisoners thought to be ISIS members escaped from Raju prison in northwestern Syria on 7 February, AFP has reported. The prison was affected by the massive earthquake that struck southern Turkiye and northern Syria the same day, …

by William Van Wagenen, published on The Cradle, September 2, 2022 In 2017, US and allied Kurdish forces bombarded the city of Raqqa, the bastion of ISIS in Syria and the de-facto capital of the terror group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Concurrent to this, US forces conducted massive air strikes on the …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, July 25, 2022 The Hagia Sophia Church in Al-Suqaylabiyah, Syria was attacked by Radical Islamic terrorists using a drone which was launched from the terrorist controlled enclave of Idlib on July 24.  Two persons were killed while 12 others were wounded. The Syrian …