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from the News Desk at The Cradle, September 18, 2025 A number of diplomats from the US mission to Syria have been abruptly dismissed by the US envoy to the country, Reuters reported on 18 September, citing sources familiar with the matter. The diplomats were part of the “Regional Syria …
Read More »Syria after Assad: How Israel and the US are Accelerating Plans to Partition the Country
by Sami al-Arian, published on Middle East Eye, August 2, 2025 Syria’s future as a unified state hangs in the balance as both countries pursue long-standing plans to cement hegemonic control through violence and divide-and-conquer tactics Last month, Israel launched a new round of air strikes on Syria, hitting targets …
Read More »Actress Diala al-Wadi Murdered in Damascus Home
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 …
Read More »Israeli Army Closes in on Damascus as Baku Talks Aim to ‘Reshape’ Southern Syria
from the News Desk at the Cradle, August 1, 2025 As diplomatic negotiations seek to determine the future of southern Syria, Israeli military operations are intensifying around Suwayda and the outskirts of Damascus. A new round of talks, reportedly set to take place in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, between Syria’s Foreign …
Read More »Clashes, Homes Torched in South Syria’s Sweida Despite Ceasefire
from Agence France-Presse, published on Al-Monitor, July 19, 2025 Smoke rose from burning houses in south Syria’s Sweida on Saturday and an Arab tribal fighter vowed to “slaughter” residents as deadly clashes with Druze fighters persisted. Just hours earlier, Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa had announced an immediate ceasefire, but …
Read More »Sectarian Slaughters in “New Syria”.
by Mark Taliano, published on Global Research, July 18, 2025 In 2016, elected Syrian President Bashar al-Assad presciently cautioned that, “Their plan was to undermine the constitution and then unleash absolute chaos—chaos that could only be resolved by imposing an ethnically and sectarian-based constitution. This would turn us from a …
Read More »Jolani Escapes to Latakia as Israel Bombs Damascus
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 …
Read More »Clashes, Grave Violations Continue Against Civilians in Sweida
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, …
Read More »Israel Bombs Damascus as Clashes Escalate Between Druze, Government Forces
from the News Desk at The Cradle, July 16, 2025 The Israeli air force carried out an attack on the entrance to the Syrian General Staff Headquarters in the capital Israel renewed its attacks on Syria on 16 July as fierce clashes between government forces and Druze militant factions in …
Read More »Druze vs Sunni: Israel’s Sectarian Game in Syria
by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, May 6, 2025 In late April, Syria plunged into renewed sectarian violence, with clashes erupting between extremist Sunni factions affiliated with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) Syrian government and Druze armed groups in Suwayda and Damascus, leaving at least 100 dead. A …
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