by Greg Goedels, published on ZZ’s Blog, March 18, 2025 It is cruelly fitting that one of the acknowledged cradles of civilization is now a showroom for the cruelties, irrationalities, and injustices of the modern capitalist world. At various times, Syria was part of the lands that were widely admired …
Read More »Thousands Reported Killed in Syria as HTS-allied Forces Attack, Execute Alawites
by The Grayzone and Antiwar.com, published on The Grayzone, March 13, 2025 Editor’s note: Sectarian Sunni forces linked to the new HTS-led government of Syria have massacred over 1300 Alawites in the past week, according to a conservative estimate. The Grayzone has spoken to staff from a Western aid organization …
Read More »Alawites Are Syrians Too
by Peter Ford, published on 21st Century Wire, December 27, 2024 Alawites in their towns and villages in the Tartous and Lattakia provinces of Syria are being subjected to hideous pogroms under the new Islamist dispensation in Syria. And the world turns its back. The Alawites are just too inconvenient …
Read More »US Tees Up Ukrainian and Syrian Extremist Proxies in Fight Against Russia
by Mohamed Nader Al-Omari, published on The Cradle, October 13, 2024 In a familiar strategy of backing proxy forces, the US has orchestrated a toxic alliance between Ukrainian forces and Syrian extremists to counter Russia’s influence — continuing Washington’s decades-long pattern of leveraging terror groups to pursue its geopolitical goals. …
Read More »Emir of Kuwait Dissolves the National Assembly and Takes Aim at the Muslim Brotherhood
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, May 18, 2024 Dr. Waleed al-Tabtabai, a former Kuwaiti member of the National Assembly, and a man integrally involved in the fundraising of the Radical Islamic terrorists who invaded Syria and killed thousands of unarmed civilians, was arrested by Kuwaiti authorities on May …
Read More »The Suwayda Protests: A Foreign-Backed Plot to Fragment Syria?
by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, August 29, 2023 Thirteen years after the onset of the war on Syria, a domestic political eruption backed by foreign states has resurfaced, threatening to once again ignite conflict in the country despite years of relative calm. Economic woes today underpin …
Read More »Russia strikes Turkish-backed extremist groups in northwest Syria
from the News Desk at The Cradle, June 25, 2023 The Russian air force carried out a series of raids targeting military bases of Turkish-backed armed groups in the countryside of Idlib and Latakia over the past two days, Al-Mayadeen reported on 25 June. Russian warplanes targeted bases belonging to …
Read More »Extremists Who Left Syria to Fight in Ukraine Realize Journey ‘Futile’: Expert
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 …
Read More »UN Aid Crosses Govt Controlled Syria to Region Occupied by Al-Qaeda Affiliates
from the News Desk at the Cradle, June 24, 2023 Damascus has long insisted that UN deliveries be coordinated by the government, as the extremists in control of Idlib often seize the aid and resell it at higher prices On 23 June, ten trucks carrying UN humanitarian aid crossed from …
Read More »Turkiye-Syria Talks Resume As Moscow Hosts Four-Way Defense Meeting
from the News Desk at The Cradle, April 25, 2023 The defense ministers of Syria, Turkiye, Russia, and Iran held a four-way meeting in Moscow on 25 April in order to continue negotiations regarding an eventual normalization of ties between the Syrian and Turkish governments. The meeting “was held in …
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