from The Conflict Forum, January 28, 2026 A compilation tracking consequential observations & strategic developments on Iran-US-Israel It would appear that Iran’s insistence on sovereignty has thrown a little wrench in the works of the Trump-Netanyahu war machine. Iran rejects US & Israeli messages on a ‘symbolic attack-symbolic response’ / …
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by Alistair Crooke, published on Conflicts Forum Substack, October 9, 2025 Trump: “This problem with Vietnam … We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct: ‘Ah, let’s take it easy!’. It’s …
Read More »Hezbollah Chief Says Lebanese Govt ‘Bears Full Responsibility for Any Civil Strife’
from the News Desk at The Cradle, published August 15, 2025 Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a speech on 15 August that the Lebanese government bears responsibility for any civil strife that may occur over its decision on disarming the resistance earlier this month. “The Lebanese government bears full …
Read More »The US–Israeli Strategy to Weaken Arab Armies
by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, April 16, 2025 For decades, Washington has ensured Israel’s military dominance by systematically weakening Arab armies. Lebanon is the most current and obvious example of this doctrine in practice The US does not merely support Israel – it guarantees the occupation state’s …
Read More »A Conversation With Venezuelan Ambassador in Damascus – Latin America and Palestine
by Vanessa Beeley, published on Substack, October 28, 2924 Two days ago I had the privilege to have a conversation with the Venezuelan Ambassador at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Syrian Arab Republic – Dr. Jose Gregorio Biomorgi. You can watch a previous interview with …
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Read More »The US is Fueling, not Avoiding, a Regional War
by Hasan Illaik, published on The Cradle, October 30, 2023 Israeli ground operations in the Gaza Strip have begun. The Financial Times says Israel will not reveal much about these military operations in order to avoid Hezbollah and Iran entering the war. The Americans are now orchestrating Israel’s military campaign …
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 »Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye: Truces, Not Peace
by Hassan Illiak, published on The Cradle, April 4, 2023 The mid-March Moscow summit between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was notable for being publicized in advance. Since the outbreak of the Syrian war, Assad’s foreign visits have not been publicly revealed until after they …
Read More »Creative Chaos: How U.S. Planners Sparked the Anti-Government Protests of the So-Called Arab Spring in Syria
by William Van Wagenen, published by The Libertarian Institute, January 31, 2022 “I have been a refugee for 37 years due to my political engagement against the ruling Baath party. I cannot go back to Syria without being punished. But I see what the western countries, Turkey, and the Gulf …
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