from The News Desk, published on The Cradle, April 22, 2025 Two top officials from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement in Syria have been detained by Syrian security forces. Khaled Khaled, head of PIJ operations in Syria, and Yasser al-Zafari, head of the organizational committee, were arrested five days …
Read More »US Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Protesters
Paul Larudee and Dan Kovalik on Spotlight, April 4, 2025
Read More »How Syria’s HTS is Quietly Dismantling the Palestinian Cause
by The Cradle’s Palestine Correspondent, published on The Cradle, March 25, 2025 Since the fall of the Syrian government on 8 December, the direction of the new interim administration, headed by Ahmad al-Sharaa, has become increasingly clear. Politically, militarily, and legally, Damascus now appears aligned with Washington’s long-standing vision of …
Read More »Multiple Casualties Following New Israeli Attacks On Syria
from the Newsdesk at The Cradle, March 25, 2025 The Israeli army said it opened fire and called in an airstrike on ‘terrorists’ in the town of Koya, west of Deraa At least seven people were killed in Israeli attacks on the town of Koya west of southern Syria’s Deraa …
Read More »Syria’s Genocide, Claiming Over 10,000 Lives, Is Not A Sectarian Conflict
by Fiorella Isabel, published on the Orinoco Tribune, March 18, 2025 Framed as sectarian war, the Syrian genocide and assaults on Gaza and Yemen are part of a long-standing UK-US-Israeli-Western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the Axis of Resistance. Syria’s massacres that can be defined by …
Read More »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 …
Read More »The Battle Between ‘Greater Israel’ and “Neo-Ottomanism” in Syria
by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, March 20, 2025 In January, Israel’s Security and Force Building Budget Examination Committee – known as the Nagel Committee, after its chairman Yaakov Nagel – released a report highlighting the potential security threat posed by a Syrian–Turkish alliance. The committee warned that …
Read More »Israeli Troops Stole ‘Mountains Of Cash and Gold’ From Gaza, Lebanon, Syria
from the News Desk at The Cradle, February 28, 2025 The Israeli military’s “Loot Unit” has seized enough weaponry to establish “a small army,” as well as “mountains” of cash and gold since launching the wars in the Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon, and Syria, Ynet reported on 28 February. “We …
Read More »Stealing water: Israel’s Covert War on Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, January 14, 2025 At the beginning of January, less than a month after rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled the Syrian government, Israeli occupation forces launched an unchallenged advance extending to the vicinity of the Al-Mantara Dam – a critical water source …
Read More »Ceasefire Is Not The End
by Jonathan Kuttab, published on FOSNA Website, January 17, 2025 We need to report this though it is not directly about Syria. I like this article because it focuses on the details of the present interaction and what it leaves open. [jb] It looks as if there will finally be …
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