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 …
Read More »Syrian Army Shells US Proxies in Deir Ezzor as Tribal Uprising Continues
from the News Desk at The Cradle, published August 8, 2024 US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria have accused Damascus’ General Intelligence Service of being behind the large-scale tribal assault launched against them on Wednesday Syrian army troops shelled positions of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 8 August, responding …
Read More »Iraq Boosts Security on Syrian Border after US Proxies Free Hundreds of ISIS Fighters
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 …
Read More »Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran Unite to Refuse a Kurdish State in Syria
Steven Sahiounie interviews Dr. Nidal Kabalan, journalist, political analyst, and former Syrian Ambassador to Turkey. Published on Mideast Discourse, July 7, 2024 According to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr. Shia Sudani, Syria and Turkey are moving closer to a possible normalization of relations which were broken after the U.S.-NATO attack …
Read More »Arab League Drops Hezbollah ‘Terrorist’ Designation
News from The Cradle, June 30, 2024 The Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League announced on 29 June that the body had canceled its designation of Lebanon’s resistance movement, Hezbollah, as a terrorist organization. “In previous Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was designated as a terrorist organization, and this designation was …
Read More »Israel Targets the 112th Brigade in Southern Syria
published in English on The Syrian Observer, June 20, 2024, Source: ENAB BALADI (Opposition website) A local correspondent for Enab Baladi in Daraa confirmed that the airstrikes specifically targeted a military compound associated with the 112th Brigade in the town of Saida al-Golan. Military installations in the southern Syrian governorates …
Read More »Czech Diplomat: Western Sanctions on Syria Cause Suffering of its People, Must be Lifted
published in English on the Syrian Observer, June 21, 2024, Source: AL-THAWRA (Pro-government newspaper) Former Czech Ambassador to Syria, Eva Filippi, emphasized that the Western sanctions imposed on Syria, affecting entire sectors, are causing significant suffering to the Syrian people and should be lifted. In an interview with Czech radio …
Read More »Russia Strikes Terrorist’s Base in Homs
from Mehr News, June, 3, 2024 Tehran~ Russia’s aerospace forces struck a base of terrorists from the US-controlled al-Tanf area in Syria’s Homs governorate, Yury Popov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry), said on Sunday. …
Read More »Strategic Setbacks for US, Israel as the Resistance Axis Gains Ground in Syria
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 …
Read More »The Looming Collapse: Syrian Economy on the Brink
Source: SYRIA TV (Opposition website), July 21, 2023 The Syrian pound has surpassed the critical threshold of ten thousand against the US dollar, signalling an imminent and potentially more severe collapse in the days to come. According to the recently released 2023 World Bank report, the real GDP of Syria …
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