(2025-09-06). Sharaa launches new fund to rebuild destroyed areas of Syria. newarab.com 
(2025-09-05). Are Trump's Middle East Envoys Pushing Lebanon Into Another Civil War. theintercept.com 
Deputy Special Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus speaks with U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack at a meeting with Lebanese parliamentarians in Beirut on Aug. 26, 2025. Photo: Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images | Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam made an announcement on August 7 that would have been unthinkable even a year before: Hezbollah — indeed all militias in the country — would be disarmed by the end of 2025. | Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim political organization which has long been considered more powerful than the Lebanese Army itself, has been o…
(2025-09-05). Syria: Ahmed al-Sharaa's regime is failing to unite the country, says Rojava revolutionary leader. greenleft.org.au 
(2025-09-05). Susan Watkins: Israel after Fordow. newleftreview.org Netanyahu is building on the obliteration of Gaza to launch an external offensive across multiple fronts, aiming at cantonization in Lebanon and Syria, and regime change, if not state break-up, in Iran. What explains the West's political investment in an Israeli-centric Middle East, on conspicuous display during June's Twelve-Day War?