Syria

Breaking The Silence: Factions In Daraa Confront Israeli Advance

April 6, 2025 Hayyan Darwish, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Israel, Syria, Terrorism, Wars and Militarism

On the evening of April 2, Daraa province witnessed a violent clash between Syrian armed factions and Israeli occupation forces south of Nawa city, marking the second confrontation of its kind in recent weeks. The clash erupted after Israeli forces attempted to advance into the forested area between Taseel and Al-Jubaylah, coinciding with a Syrian security operation near the Taseel Dam aimed at recovering the body of a drowned child. A tribal source suggested to Al-Akhbar that the Israeli incursion was linked to broader efforts to control regional water resources, coming just two days after “Israel” declared Al-Mantra dam, Southern Syria’s largest dam, a restricted military zone.

Government Forces Carry Out New Civilian Executions In Syria’s Coast

April 1, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Genocide, Hayat Tahrir al-sham (HTS), Massacre, Syria, Terrorism

At least six people were killed and several others from the Alawite community were wounded on 31 March in a new civilian massacre in Harf B-Nimra village, located in Syria's Tartous governorate. According to local reports, armed men wearing military uniforms entered the village in Baniyas countryside and executed the Mukhtar (the village elder), his son, and five other men. “The gunmen set off from Al-Desaynah base, a former camp of the [disbanded Syrian Arab Army], in Baniyas countryside. The attackers carried out that attack and returned to the base where forces of the ministries of defense and interior are stationed,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Monday.

Alawites And Christians: Behind Syria’s Silent, Sectarian Slaughter

March 31, 2025 Hamide Rencus, The Cradle. Educate! Alawhites, Christians, Genocide, Hayat Tahrir al-sham (HTS), Syria, Terrorism

The massacres and repression of Alawites and Christians in Syria began immediately after the fall of Damascus and have continued for the past three and a half months. On 7 December 2024, the day after the capital city fell to Idlib-based militants, Israel began bombing Syrian territory and deployed tanks into the country's south. Yet the barrels of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its affiliated Salafi extremist groups – who had taken control of Damascus – were not pointed at Israel, but at Syria's Alawite population. What began as attacks on Alawite and Christian religious sites quickly turned into the systematic slaughter of Alawites.

HTS-Israeli Campaign To Eliminate Syria’s Engineers And Scientists

March 26, 2025 Syria Correspondent, The Cradle. Educate! Assassination, Engineers, Hayat Tahrir al-sham (HTS), Israeli Imperialism, Scientists, Syria, Wars and Militarism

On 27 November 2024, 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 HTS sniper while attempting to flee the assault. Arslanian had previously worked in Italy on weapons systems and was chief of the Syrian advanced weapons research design team at the Arab School of Science and Technology in Aleppo at the time of his death. Following the assassination, Syrian-Armenian journalist Kevork Almassian speculated that HTS was not acting alone.

Syria’s Genocide, Claiming Over 10,000 Lives, Is Not A Sectarian Conflict

March 22, 2025 Fiorella Isabel, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Genocide, Hayat Tahrir al-sham (HTS), Human Rights, Israel, Media, NATO, Syria, US Imperialism, Western, Zionist

Syria’s massacres that can be defined by nothing less than genocide have exceeded in the slaughter of over 10,000 dead souls. The last few days flooded with videos and images of the endless public, mass executions of children, women, civilians, and entire families, have shown that the world is willing to watch yet another genocide unfold with most of the international media and the international community silent, excusing or down-playing the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) terrorist ethnic cleansing of Syrians. As Israel once again strikes Gaza killing over 400 people, with the full backing of the Trump administration.

Damascus Targets All But Israel As Border Crisis Deepens

March 22, 2025 Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. Educate! Damascus, Israel, Syria, Wars and Militarism

Since the seizure of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on Dec. 8, 2024, thousands of Syrians have been killed across the country. Instead of confronting Israeli aggression and further land grabs in the nation’s south, Syria’s de facto President, Ahmed al-Shara’a, has directed his fire at Lebanon instead. On March 17, fighters affiliated with the new Syrian security forces of HTS crossed into the Lebanese border town of al-Qasr, three of whom were captured by a local clan. News quickly spread that two of the militants were executed and a third seriously injured, prompting Syria’s leadership to order shelling and a military buildup on its side of the border.

Thousands Of Syrian Alawites Shelter At Russian Base

March 15, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Asylum, Hayat Tahrir al-sham (HTS), Massacres, Russia, Syria

Thousands of Syrian Alawites continue to seek sanctuary at a Russian air base, fearing for their lives in the wake of a series of horrific sectarian massacres carried out by Syrian government-affiliated extremist armed groups. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that about 9,000 people were seeking refuge at Hmeimim, an air base established by Russia as part of its 2015 intervention in the US-backed war that began in 2011 to topple the Syrian government of former president Bashar al-Assad. Thousands of people have been sheltering at the Hmeimim Air Base near the coastal city of Jablah since 7 March, when extremist militants went from house to house in predominantly Alawite towns and villages, killing residents and looting and burning their homes.

Sectarian Violence Sweeps Syria

March 9, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Alawhites, Ethnic cleansing, Hayat Tahrir al-sham (HTS), Sectarian Violence, Syria, US coup

At least 147 people have been killed in Syria in the past two days, as security forces from the country's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – led government carried out a series of massacres and extrajudicial executions against Alawites in the country's coastal regions as part of a broader security campaign to target remnants of the former Syrian Arab Army (SAA). Videos of many instances of extrajudicial killings have been posted to social media showing HTS militants from the government of Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former Al-Qaeda in Iraq commander, killing unarmed Alawites in cold blood.

UK Lifts Sanctions On Syria’s De Facto Government; Massacres Continue

March 7, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Sanctions, State Violence, Syria, United Kingdom (UK)

The British government has lifted sanctions on 24 entities in Syria, including the country’s central bank, coming during a severe economic crisis and an indiscriminate government crackdown on the uprising launched this week by elements of the former Syrian military. The UK is the first country to unfreeze all Syrian central bank assets. Sanctions on the state airliner and state-owned oil firms were also removed on 6 March. “This approach underscores our commitment to help the people of Syria rebuild their country and economy, including through support for a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition process,” a UK government spokesman said.

Druze Leader Warns Of ‘Israeli Plot’ To ‘Sabotage, Divide Syria’

March 4, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Wars and Militarism

A prominent Druze leader in Lebanon warned on Sunday of an Israeli plot to divide Syria along sectarian lines and create chaos amid clashes between Syrian government security forces and local Druze self-defense units in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana. "The free Syrians must be cautious of the plots of Israel," veteran Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said at a news conference Sunday. "In Syria, there is a plot for sabotage. There is a plot for sabotage in the region and for the Arabs' national security," Jumblatt added. Jumblatt said he plans to visit Syria, following weekend clashes between militants from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led Syrian government and Druze self-defense units in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana.

Trump: ‘Resume Kurdish Oil Exports Or Face Sanctions’

February 22, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Iraq, Oil, Syria, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, US Sanctions

Officials in the government of US President Donald Trump say Iraq must allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, Reuters reported on 21 February, citing eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Washington wants oil exports from Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to resume to offset a potential fall in Iranian oil exports. President Trump has pledged to cut oil exports from Iran to zero as part of a new "maximum pressure" campaign against the Islamic Republic. On Monday, Iraq's oil minister made a surprise announcement saying exports from Iraqi Kurdistan would resume next week.

US / Israel-Backed Overthrow Of Syria Was Blow To Palestine Liberation

February 9, 2025 Mike Miccioli, Geopolitical Economy. Educate! Ahmed al-Sharaa, Al-Qaeda, Gaza, History, HTS, ISIS, Israel, NATO, Palestine, Syria, US Imperialism

Opposition forces backed by NATO member Turkey launched an offensive in Syria, in coordination with Israel and the United States, on November 27, 2024. Within 11 days, the government of the Syrian Arab Republic was toppled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani, who now uses his birth name Ahmed al-Sharaa. Sharaa, who was appointed the unelected “president” of Syria, was previously leader of Al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda. He was also an emissary of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS.

Under Trump’s Orders, Pentagon Plans ‘Permanent Withdrawal’ From Syria

February 5, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Pentagon, Report, Syria, Worker Rights and Jobs

Washington is drafting plans for a withdrawal of US military forces from Syria, two defense officials told NBC News on 4 February. “The Defense Department is developing plans to withdraw all US troops from Syria,” the officials said. As a result of US President Donald Trump and those close to him expressing an intention to pull out of Syria recently, Pentagon officials are “drawing up plans for a full withdrawal in 30, 60 or 90 days,” the report conveyed. US defense officials told NBC that Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz visited CENTCOM’s headquarters last week, met with senior army officials, and received briefings on the region.

New Syrian Resistance Begins Operations Against Israeli Occupation

February 2, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Al-Qaeda, Civil War, ISIS, Islamic Resistance Front in Syria (IRFS), Israel, Occupation, Syria, Wars and Militarism

A newly formed Syrian resistance faction, calling itself the Islamic Resistance Front in Syria (IRFS), has claimed responsibility for an attack on 31 January against Israeli occupation forces in the southern governorate of Quneitra. With this attack, the new resistance group announced the start of its operations "against the Israeli enemy alongside our operations against the terrorist gangs of Julani," referring to self-appointed transitional President Ahmad al-Sharaa – the former deputy commander of ISIS and founder of Al-Qaeda in Syria.

Syria’s De Facto Authorities Execute ‘Sweeping’ Neoliberal Reforms

February 1, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Neoliberalism, Privatization, Syria, US Regime Change

The self-appointed transitional government in Syria is undertaking sweeping internal reforms, including privatizing state-run enterprises and laying off a third of the public sector, as authorities say they are shifting to "a competitive free-market economy." In an interview with Reuters, ex-officials of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) who are serving as cabinet ministers for transitional President Ahmad al-Sharaa – former ISIS and Al-Qaeda commander Abu Mohammad al-Julani – say they have a “wide scope” of plans to shrink the state, including removing thousands of “ghost employees.”

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