New Syrian Government

by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, April 23, 2025 In Post-Assad Syria, the Mass Abduction and Sexual Enslavement of Alawite Women Under Sharaa’s Rule Mirrors the Darkest Atrocities of ISIS—Yet is Met With Global Silence. Since December, when the former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), toppled …

published by Daraj, April 17, 2025 “They tortured and beat us. We weren’t allowed to speak to each other, but I heard the kidnappers’ accents. One of them had a foreign accent and the other had a local Idlib accent. I knew that because they were insulting us because we …

from the Newsroom,  on Mideast Discourse, March 27, 2025 Sadly, I missed this before.  I had met Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, and like him very much.   The highest Sunni cleric in Syria when I met hi, he was a passionate man, but also tolerant, with a sharp mind and sharper …

by Vanessa Beeley, published on Substack, April 13, 2025 Vanessa Beeley has spent a great deal of time in Syria interviewing ordinary people caught in the horrific proxy war to destroy the Republic of Syria.   It is a painfully graphic  reminder of what a war on an innocent population really …

Steven Sahiounie, published by PointS News on Youtube, March 31, 2025 This is an interview with our friend Steven Sahiounie who lives in Latakia.   I hope he and his family stay  safe there.   [jb] As a journalist who has witnessed the complexities of the Syrian conflict firsthand, I’m proud to …

This is a powerful video from FreePalestineTV.video.   It includes some difficult images, but what stands out is an interview with a particularly articulate gentleman, an Alawite now living in a refugee center in a town in Lebanon.  Click the image below to view it.  

Editorial, May 31, 2025 If you have read and listen to the recent material posted on this blog, you will have been informed that over the last few weeks, the new Syrian Government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, at minimum, facilitated the murder of tens of thousands of Syrian civilians; at …

by Hamide Rencus, published on The Cradle, March 28, 2025 The massacres and repression of Alawites and Christians in Syria began immediately after the fall of Damascus and have continued for the past three and a half months. On 7 December 2024, the day after the capital city fell to …

News from Defend Democracy Press, March 29, 2025 A large-scale massacre is currently underway against inmates of Damascus Central Prison, located in Adra, in the rural region of Damascus. This follows a revolt by some prisoners in reaction to the physical and verbal assaults they are suffering at the hands …

by Ben Chacko, published on Defend Democracy, March 22, 2025 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) swept to power in Syria surprisingly quickly following a civil war of well over a decade. Was this because the previous Assad government had lost all support? Were there other reasons?
 The regime’s downfall has many …