from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 11, 2024 The Ukrainian government provided fighters from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) extremist armed group with “about 150 first-person-view drones” and at least 20 experienced drone operators in the lead-up to the flash offensive that ended with the fall of the …
Read More »Eye-Witness Syria: The Last 12 Days
by Rick Sterling, published on the LA Progressive, December 10, 2023 My friend lives in Damascus. I will call him Qusay to protect his identity. Qusay was born and grew up in Aleppo and still has family there. He is a high-level translator and university professor. From his family, he …
Read More »Hundreds of ‘Ukrainian Experts’ Training Syria-based Extremists in Drone Warfare: Report
from the News Desk at The Cradle, September 17, 2024 Editor’s Note: More and more it appears that a global conflagration has already begun. A group of 250 Ukrainian military experts has arrived in Syria’s northern Idlib governorate to train extremist militants in the use and manufacture of drones, a …
Read More »Can Iraq broker peace between Syria and Turkiye?
by Khalil Harb, published on The Cradle, June 17, 2024 Recent developments indicate a potential thaw in the frosty relations between Damascus and Ankara, but a breakthrough remains uncertain. Despite the bleak outlook, Baghdad hopes to replicate its past success in mediating between adversaries. In April 2021, Iraq facilitated a …
Read More »Syria on the Brink of Recovery as Qatar and Turkey Change Their Policies
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Global Research, June 4, 2024 The Emir of Qatar, Tamim al Thani, recently said that he supports the street protests in Idlib, Syria where people are protesting the dictatorial rule of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group. This marks a monumental change in policy …
Read More »Israel Violates Syrian Air-Space on a Criminal Assassination Mission
by Vanessa Beeley, published on Vanessa’s Substack, June 4, 2024 At approximately 00.20 on the 3rd of June 2024 Israel again violated Syrian airspace to target sites in the vicinity of Aleppo, northern Syria. The Israeli jets entered Syrian air-space via Jordan and the illegal U.S. military base at Al …
Read More »Terror in Syria: a US distraction from Gaza
by Khalil Nasrallah, published on The Cradle, May 30, 2024 Western-backed terrorist strongholds in Syria have not remained untouched by the Israeli military assault on Gaza. With the broad activation of the Axis of Resistance in support of Gaza, particularly in Lebanon, it didn’t take too long before Washington began …
Read More »The Looming Collapse: Syrian Economy on the Brink
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 …
Read More »The Role of Turkey and Idlib in the Moscow Attack
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, March 25, 2024 On the Americans having their cake and eating it too in Syria. [jb] The road to the Crocus Center in Moscow began in Turkey, as one of the attackers confessed who killed 143 concert goers and injured more than 150 …
Read More »Civilians held under terrorist rule in Idlib demand their freedom
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, March 11, 2024 Thousands of civilians living under terrorist occupation in Idlib have taken to the streets to demand the fall of the government on Friday. No, not the Syrian government in Damascus, but the Idlib government ruled by Abu Mohamed al-Julani, and …
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