2025-10-11: Syria Roundup

So far today: 2025-10-11 7:25pm GMT

mireille Rebeiz, Chair of Middle East Studies, Dickinson College (2025-10-11). For war-weary Syria, potential benefits of security pact with Israel comes with big risks. | Mireille Rebeiz

Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. (2025-10-11). We Must Reject Normalization Of A Genocidal Regime And Impunity For War Crimes. popularresistance.org Israel is a rogue regime, deeply violent, fundamentally racist and unconstrained. It has developed a kind of arrogance that comes out of absolute impunity guaranteed by the West. That's why they not only deployed a murderous attack in a sovereign country against people who were there to negotiate with them, but they also carried out acts of aggression against Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and in the territorial Waters of Tunisia and Malta. | This is a rogue regime that is posing a threat across Western Asia and beyond to the broader world. It's a regime that has launched a transnational terror attack in Lebanon wi…

NEO (2025-10-11). President Ramaphosa to deliver eulogy at Mthethwa funeral. sanews.gov.za President Ramaphosa to deliver eulogy at Mthethwa funeral | President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the eulogy at the funeral service of the late Ambassador Nathi Mthethwa on Sunday. ⚪ "President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Sunday, 12 October 2025 deliver the eulogy in honour of the late Ambassador Emmanuel Nkosinathi "Nathi" Mthethwa in KwaMbonambi, KwaZulu-Natal," said the Presidency in an advisory on Friday. ⚪ The funeral service will take place at Dondotha Stadium. ⚪ The late Ambassador to France will be honoured with a Special Official Funeral Category 2. The Special Official Funeral Category 2 declared by Pre…

Editor (2025-10-11). Samantha Power Secretly Colluded With Israel To Enhance UN Role, Leaked Emails Show. scheerpost.com USAID Administrator Samantha Power, 2024. usembassykyiv, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons | In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Wyatt Reed / Former US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power secretly coordinated w…

Mnar Muhawesh (2025-10-10). Lebanon Under Siege with Ghadi Francis: Inside Israel's Plan to Disarm Hezbollah. thealtworld.com Ghadi Francis joins Mnar Adley to unpack how US and Israeli plans to disarm Hezbollah could ignite new chaos in Lebanon. | Fresh from its success in overthrowing the government of Syria and the assassination of the prime minister of Yemen, the U.S.-Israeli alliance has its sights set on a new target: Hezbollah. | Last week, the United States government sent $230 million in military aid to the Lebanese Army. This enormous weapons package was green lit with one objective: to dismantle Hezbollah as a force capable of resisting Israeli attacks. | In September, the Lebanese government rubber-stamped the Trump admin…

tehrantimes (2025-10-10). Hakim defends Iraq's sovereignty amid U.S. pressure to disarm Popular Mobilization Forces. tehrantimes.com Iraqi politician Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the National Wisdom Movement, delivered a speech at the launch of his election campaign, calling for national unity, moderation, and resistance to foreign interference. His remarks come as the United States intensifies efforts to disarm the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) following recent developments in Lebanon and Syria.

Joe Truzman & Ahmad Sharawi (2025-10-10). Profiles of notable terrorists Israel will release in ceasefire deal with Hamas. longwarjournal.org As a part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Israel is set to release almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Among the prisoners to be released are members of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other armed organizations. FDD's Long War Journal has profiled 10 of these individuals who were imprisoned for high-profile attacks and crimes.

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