(2025-12-29). Syria's incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit. juancole.com By (The Conversation) — The US military launched a wave of strikes against targets in central Syria a week and a half ago, on December 19, in response to an attack on US forces near the ancient city of Palmyra one week earlier.
(2025-12-29). Syria Opens Criminal Investigation Into Assad-Era Mass Grave. moderndiplomacy.eu Syria's new government has ordered troops to guard a remote desert military site east of Damascus after a Reuters investigation revealed it was used to conceal thousands of bodies under former president Bashar al-Assad. The site in the Dhumair desert was central to a covert operation known as "Operation Move Earth," in which bodies were …
(2025-12-29). Syrian Alawites Begin Mass Protests Against Government Violence. popularresistance.org Syrian citizens of the Alawite minority sect took to the streets on 28 December to protest against government violence and sectarian persecution, in line with a call made by the community's religious leader a day earlier. | Members of the minority sect protested in the Alawite neighborhoods of the central governorate of Homs, and in several towns and cities on the country's coast, including Tartous, Jableh, and Latakia. | Protests also erupted in Hama governorate, including in the city of Masyaf. | Alawite Syrians held up banners reading "Federalism is the solution" and "the blood of Alawites is not cheap," among…
(2025-12-29). Spook Story: Ex-US amb. to Venezuela monetizes coup-plotting alongside former CIA officials. scheerpost.com By Jack Poulson and Max Blumenthal for The Grayzone While pushing for war on Venezuela in legacy media, former US ambassador Jimmy Story is soliciting clients for consulting firms run by notorious ex-CIA officials. Editor's note: Former US ambassador to Venezuela James "Jimmy" Story has gone from de facto manager of the putschist, Washington-backed opposition in Venezuela to one of …