2025-11-30: Syria Roundup

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thejakartapost.com (2026-01-12). Trump sends hundreds more agents to Minneapolis The officers would be deployed to bolster the safety of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officials already in Minnesota, Noem said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" program. Some 2,000 federal officers have already been dispatched to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in what DHS has called its largest operation ever.

znetwork.org (2026-01-12). 10 Reasons Why ICE is Harassing Native Americans ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly detaining Native American citizens, and ignoring or refusing to treat Tribal ID cards as proof of citizenship.

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palestinechronicle.com (2026-01-11). How ICE Is Bringing Israeli Occupation Forces' Tactics to US Streets – AnalysisWhile some have instinctively drawn parallels to Israeli violence against Palestinians, the connection between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is more than just the blood on their hands.
Although most Americans are unaware of it, ICE has a direct relationship with the Israeli military, which is training its forces to treat American citizens like Palestinians under occupation.

newarab.com (2026-01-11). Activists slam Mamdani's criticism of anti-settlement protestNew York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has come under fire after he denounced language used at a pro-Palestine demonstration, while not condemning the the Israeli settlement event they were protesting.

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Ahmad Sharawi (2025-11-30). Israel's Beit Jinn raid highlights potential Hamas-linked networks in southern Syria. longwarjournal.org On November 27, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an operation in the southern Syrian village of Beit Jinn to arrest operatives linked to the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood.

en.mehrnews (2025-11-30). New clashes reported in Syria's Suweyda province. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) — Local Syrian media reported new armed conflict in the southern province of Suweyda between Jolani regime and the local Druze forces.

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American (USA) geopolitical strategy is a lot like western medicine: react with attack, attack, attack; and then later figure out which remedies were actually the wrong prognoses, and which were actually detrimental or even fatal. Trump needs to cool it with all the knee-jerk interventions he provokes in world affairs, including stoking the many nefarious tactics previously initiated by imperial outsiders. He always ends up doing more harm than good.

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middleeastmonitor.com (2026-01-12). Australian festival boycotted for excluding Palestinian writer Dozens of writers and cultural figures have boycotted the Adelaide Festival in Australia after the organisers excluded Palestinian-Australian academic and writer Randa Abdel-Fattah from the Adelaide Writers' Week programme, scheduled to take place next month.

sciencedaily.com (2026-01-12). War has pushed Gaza's children to the brink – "like the living dead" A new study warns that war in Gaza has pushed children to the edge, leaving many too hungry, weak, or traumatized to learn. Education has nearly collapsed, with years of schooling lost to conflict, hunger, and fear.

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alternet.org (2026-01-11). Things are only going to get worse ' if these 4 men don't act now The staggering cowardliness by four ex-presidents vis-à-vis Tyrant Trump's wrecking of America cannot escape history's verdict.

aljazeera.com (2026-01-11). US woman killed by ICE agent called 'domestic terrorist': What it means Good, a mother of three and a poet, lived in the Minneapolis neighbourhood where she was fatally shot. She was a US citizen and had no criminal background. Good's ex-husband told AP that she wasn't an activist and he hadn't known her to participate in protests. Good had dropped off her 6-year-old son at school and was driving home when she encountered ICE.

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wral.com (2026-01-10). Video shows armed men beating a Palestinian in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Dozens of masked men armed with sticks beat and injured a Palestinian in the Israeli-occupied West Bank when they attacked a plant nursery, according to people who saw the attack and video footage obtained by The Associated Press.

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