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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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 …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, March 3, 2025 Poor electricity supply, a rise in the price of diesel, and the influx of cheap foreign products have devastated domestic Syrian production since Assad’s fall During the past three months, hundreds of Syrian factories, plants, and workshops have been closed …
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by The Cradle’s Syria Correspondent, published on The Cradle, January 29, 2025 Nearly two months after the toppling of the Syrian government by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) extremist forces, the western countryside of Homs has been gripped by a brutal security campaign marked by grave human rights violations, including field …
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by Daniel Kovalik, published on Defend Democracy, February 15, 2025 During her confirmation hearing for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard was grilled about having been a purveyor of “Putin’s talking points” about the U.S. supporting al-Qaeda in Syria. Of course, Gabbard responded, there can be no doubt about the …
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from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, February 2, 2025 The group also announced it would carry out operations against ‘the terrorist gangs’ led by former ISIS and Al-Qaeda warlord Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was appointed as Syria’s transitional president this week A newly formed Syrian resistance faction, calling itself the Islamic …
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by Tim Anderson, posted to ‘X‘, January 21, 2025 Free Syria. In the name of attacking “Assadist militias” in western Homs, the HTS/alQaeda regime in Damascus has carried out new sectarian massacres. January 21, 2025 Incident: Details of the Al-Ghour Al-Gharbiya Massacre in Rural Homs In the early hours of …
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, February 23, 2023 I highly suggest reading some of the linked articles. HTS is apparently ‘taxing’ aid providers and ‘managing’ distribution in Idlib, while the main body of Syrians are denied aid entirely due to U.S. sanctions. An Arabic language article that is …
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from the NewsDesk at The Cradle, January 3, 2023 Abu Mohammed al-Julani, the chief of the Idlib-based extremist group in northern Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – formerly known as the Al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front – made a video statement on 2 January rejecting the prospect of Russian-mediated talks between …
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from The Cradle, October 15, 2022 Clashes resumed in northeast Syria on 15 October between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Turkish-backed factions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Syrian National Army (SNA), after a preliminary ceasefire agreement had been reached the day before. Fighting was reignited in the Aleppo …
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