by Kevork Almassian, published on Substack, February 25, 2026 When the headlines tell you that ISIS is resurfacing in Syria, that prison breaks are accelerating, and that American forces are “withdrawing,” you are supposed to read it as a chaotic but ultimately familiar story: terrorism comes back, the international community …
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by The Syrian Observer, June 9, 2025 A timely analysis. I only wonder why these issues never occurred to them over the long years when they were supporting the “revolution” driven by these same men. [ jb] In the uneasy interstice between war and peace, Syria grapples with a question …
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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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from the Newsdesk at The Cradle, May 19, 2025 Syria’s General Security forces launched a large-scale security campaign in Al-Mayadeen city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor on 19 May, following the detonation of a car bomb near the police station in the city the night before. According to …
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from the News Desk, at The Cradle, September 5, 2024 Editor’s Note: I suppose it could qualify as “good” news that Syria’s enemies and hopeful occupiers are busy fighting among themselves at the present. Not pretty, though; and not so nice for the local residents who mostly don’t support any …
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by Vanessa Beeley, published on Vanessa’s Substack, August 12, 2024 The War Continues: Syrian Tribal Forces clash with US proxies and threaten Al Omar oil field with liberation There is a very real risk of Israel expanding the war in the West Asia region – Netanyahu is not bowing to …
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by Brad Pearce, published on the Libertarian Institute Website, August 1, 2024 This article, which has a US-centric perspective, was published the day before The Cradle published an article saying that 1,000 ISIS prisoners were released from this gulag, causing significant consternation in Iraq, and more or less co-temporal with …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, August 1, 2024 Officials from Mosul say the released ISIS fighters have been ‘dispersed along the Iraqi borders’ with no monitoring. The Iraqi armed forces have increased security along the country’s border with Syria following the release of hundreds of ISIS fighters from …
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by Khalil Nasrallah, published on the Cradle, May 14, 20224 Recent resistance operations in eastern Syria have established new rules of engagement that constrain both Washington and Tel Aviv’s once-untethered freedom to operate in this strategic theater. For several years, the presence of the region’s Axis of Resistance forces in …
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Clayton Morris interviews with Vanessa Beeley, on Redacted News, April 23, 2024 Our old friend Vanessa Beeley aoeaks from Damascus about the ongoing rumors related to drug trafficking in Syria:
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