2025-04-29: Syria Roundup

So far today: 2025-04-29 8:33pm GMT

Giorgio Cafiero (2025-04-29). Can Trump cool Turkey-Israel tensions over Syria? responsiblestatecraft.org Soon after Syria experienced its Arab Spring uprising in 2011 and slid into a gruesome civil war, the country became a battleground for Russia, Iran, and Lebanon's Hezbollah supporting the former regime on one side, and Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey backing rebel groups on the other. Since Bashar al-Assad's ouster late last year, however, dynamics have shifted, transforming Syria into an arena of Turkish-Israeli competition. A major source of tension between Turkey and Israel stems from the former's desire to see Syria emerge as a strong, unitary state with a Turkey-oriented government in Damascus while the…

Hudhaifa Ebrahim (2025-04-29). Tehran Seeks Comeback in Syria Through Iraqi Training Camps. themedialine.org

Rizik Alabi (2025-04-29). Syria Probes Viral Blasphemous Audio as Sectarian Unrest Turns Deadly. themedialine.org

Steven Ganot (2025-04-29). Iran Recruits Syrian Defectors for Cross-Border Force in Iraq. themedialine.org

SKWAWKBOX (2025-04-28). Video: bodies of victims of Syrian regime's slaughter of minorities wash up on Lebanese shoreline. skwawkbox.org Lebanese TV station's grim report exposes murderousness of terror regime sanitised by UK govt and media Lebanese TV station Al Jadeed has reported large numbers of bodies of victims of the Syrian regime washing ashore on Lebanon's coast. The dead appear to be victims of the 'HTS' ISIS-linked regime's slaughter of Alawites and other minorities, …

Ed Sykes (2025-04-28). Minoritised women are being kidnapped and trafficked under Syria's Western-backed regime. thecanary.co Since the new regime in Syria took power, there has been a wave of abductions targeting women and girls, particularly from minoritised communities. This accompanies an "escalation in the rate of civilian assassinations", linked in many cases to "sectarian affiliation". Western allies Turkey and Israel, meanwhile, continue to take advantage of the chaos. Revenge, chaos, […] | By

Staff (2025-04-28). Syria Placed Under Islamist Rule for Five Years by New Interim Constitution. defenddemocracy.press Says president must be a Muslim, and Islamic Law is main source of jurisprudence by Jason Ditz March 13, 2025 In December, the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over Syria in an internationally-backed offensive. HTS was formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) before that. Today, their leader Ahmed al-Sharaa …

_____ (2025-04-28). Israel Inherits the US Hegemony in the Middle East. transcend.org 20 April 2025 – Israel is indirectly controlling a strip of the land along the Syrian border with Jordan, and is promoting a plan to create a "David Corridor" that connects Israel to the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. This is a plan for Israel to inherit Middle East hegemony from the United States…

Jason Ditz (2025-04-28). Syria Assures US It Poses No Threat to Israel. news.antiwar.com Much has been made recently of Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and their openness to normalizing relations with Israel. The specifics of this interest are more and more public, as a letter Syria submitted to the US has been made public. The letter has made it clear that the Syria poses no threat to Israel, …

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