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Shadow rule: How the Sharaa family and a foreign-born operative built Syria’s new deep economy

From The Cradle, published December 1, 2025 Beneath Syria’s ministries and decrees lies a shadow economy controlled by the Sharaa brothers and a foreign-born operative, whose journey from Idlib militancy to the heart of Damascus exposes how power and profit intertwine in the post-Assad state. Since the fall of former Syrian …

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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 …

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Riches vs Ideology: Extremists Battle Over Syria’s Spoils

by Fehim Tastekim, published by The Cradle, May 30, 2025 After Abu Mohammad al-Julani (Ahmad al-Sharaa), self-declared president of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led authority in Syria, shook hands with US President Donald Trump in Riyadh on 14 May, a storm of questions erupted over the future of the extremist …

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The Brutal Sectarian History of Western, Zionist and Turkish Proxies in Syria

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 …

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Inside the HTS-Israeli Campaign to Eliminate Syria’s Military Engineers and Scientists

by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, March 19, 2025 On 27 November w024, militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, launched a lighting assault on Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city. Amid the chaos, Armenian born professor Yervant Arslanian was assassinated by a suspected …

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Security Council Agrees to Condemn Massacre of Alawites in Syria

News from PressTV, March14, 2025 There’s an irony here.  The UN Security Council condemned the massacre of thousands of civilians by a terrorist government – uncontroversial – except that some members of that council paved the way for that government to come to power.  Sighhhhhhh The United Nations Security Council …

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The Imposter at the Arabian Table

from le Boulesversement, March, 2025 Editor’s note: This article is from what I assume is someone’s private blog.  You might call him an Assadist, but that’s beside the point.  I liked the title and the fact that he assembled the 2 speeches for comparison. Al-Sharaa’s speech is all over the …

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What Sultan Erdogan is Really Up To

by Pepe Escobar, published on Strategic-Culture, January 29, 2025 On the table, a geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent analytical minds from Bursa to Diyarbakir. ISTANBUL – The scene is a Circassian restaurant off fabled Istiklal street in historic Beyoglu. On the table, a geopolitical banquet …

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Assad: We are Indirect Partners in Genocide

President al-Assad: What we need is decision to use the tools we possess to stop the Zionist massacres, genocide and ethnic cleansing by Mazen Eyon, published on SANA, November 11, 2024 Riyadh, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad stressed that priority now is to stop the massacres, genocide and ethnic cleansing committed …

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Why Anti-Imperialists Must Defend Syria and the Axis of Resistance

by Richie Merino, published on Workers World, September 11, 2024 The anti-colonial struggle against U.S./Western imperialism and the Zionist settler state has long shaped the geopolitical dynamics of West Asia. Syria stands at the epicenter of this struggle as a vital member of the Axis of Resistance, a united front …

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