Syria

Syrian Bloodbaths: From Nefarious To Benign

June 3, 2025 Gregory Shupak, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Corporate Media, Media, Propaganda, State Violence, Syria

In The Political Economy of Human Rights (South End Press, 1979), Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman argued that the American ruling class and corporate media regard bloodbaths as being constructive, nefarious or benign. A constructive bloodbath is typically carried out by the US or one of its proxies, and is endorsed in establishment media. The most obvious contemporary example is the genocidal US/Israeli campaign in Gaza, approved by media commentators in the New York Times (2/11/25), Wall Street Journal (3/20/25) and Washington Post (10/24/23). The two other approaches that Chomsky and Herman outline illuminate the corporate media’s approach to Syria.

State Of The Palestinian Resistance

May 26, 2025 Julia Kassem, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Al-Qassam fighters, Ansarallah, Anti-Imperialism, Axis of Resistance, Gaza, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iraq, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Yemen

16 months of brutal genocide and siege have done all but break the Palestinian resistance, which has steadfastly – if not miraculously – fended off and broken the ruthless siege of the Zionist entity. As an official death toll stands at 61,700 – with much more accurate estimates tallying the martyrs at over 300,000, “Israel” has yet again turned to slaughtering civilians. The Palestinian resistance has recruited at least 30,000 new fighters in Gaza, according to conservative estimates earlier this year. Three-quarters of the Resistance’s tunnels remain and the ambushing and fighting both Al-Qassam and Saraya al-Quds continue against an occupation that has mostly withdrawn its ground occupying troops in Gaza while mulling over sending robots into Gaza.

The Human Cost Of Syria Sanctions

May 20, 2025 Rick Sterling, LA Progressive. Educate! Israel, Sanctions, Syria, Turkey, US Regime Change, US Sanctions

On May 13, Trump announced he is ordering the removal of sanctions on Syria. Some of the U.S. sanctions can be quickly terminated because they were issued by Executive Order. Other sanctions, including the extremely damaging 2019 "Caesar" sanctions, were imposed by Congressional legislation and may require Congressional action to terminate. The Syrian people are joyous at the prospect of the end of their country's economic nightmare. In 2010, before the conflict began, Syria was a middle-income country with free education, free healthcare, and no national debt. It was largely self-sufficient in energy and food. After fourteen years of war, occupation, and strangulating Western sanctions, the U.N. reports that "nine out of ten Syrians live in poverty and face food insecurity".

Trump’s Deals With Gulf Leaders Are An Explicit Act Of Feudalism

May 18, 2025 Aseel Saleh, People's Dispatch. Educate! Ceasefire Agreement, Donald Trump, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Neo-feudalism, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), US military bases, US Sanctions

All eyes were on US President Donald Trump last week during his tour of the Gulf Arab states, with many hoping that his trip would speed up Gaza ceasefire talks and bring a permanent truce in the war-torn enclave. While the ceasefire is still out of reach, the trip proved to be one of Trump’s most lucrative business journeys ever. Trump’s first major overseas trip in his second presidential term started on Tuesday, May 13 and ended on Friday, May 16, during which he visited three Gulf oil-producing countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Dr. Saeed Dhiyab the General-Secretary of the Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party (Wihda Party) criticized the heads of the Gulf Arab countries who hosted Trump.

The Hypocrisy Of US Imperialists And Syrian Reactionaries

May 16, 2025 Bronx Anti-War Coalition, Workers World. Educate! History, Sanctions, Syria, US Imperialism, US Sanctions

The Trump regime’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria exposes the true purpose of sanctions: to deliberately impoverish ordinary citizens, force regime change and extend U.S.-led imperial control. For 15 years, the United States imposed draconian sanctions on the Assad government, isolating Syria from international banking, trade and essential sectors such as energy, health and education, with the explicit intent of undermining its self-sufficient socialist economy. These measures were designed to demoralize ordinary Syrians and force a change in leadership by targeting the elected coalition government of Syria under President Assad, who had defended the Palestinian cause and refused to normalize relations with the Zionist entity.

Iraqi MP Files Lawsuit Against Syrian President Over ‘Terrorist’ Past

April 30, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Al Julani, Al-Qaeda, Iraq, Legal System, Syria, Terrorism

Iraqi Member of Parliament Alaa al-Haidari has filed a lawsuit with the Iraqi Public Prosecution against the new Syrian President, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Shafaq News reported on 29 April. In a video statement from the Supreme Judicial Council building, Haidari said, “I filed the complaint against the terrorist Julani, known as Ahmad al-Sharaa,” who “was part of ISIS organizations in Iraqi territory.” This comes as the Syrian President received an official invitation from Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on 27 April to attend the Arab League Summit scheduled to be held next month in the capital, Baghdad.

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.

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