2025-06-15: Syria Roundup

So far today: 2025-06-15 5:13pm GMT

Editor (2025-06-15). Chris Hedges: The Folly of A War With Iran. scheerpost.com And Now a Word From Our Monster — by Mr. Fish | By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 Iran is not…

ICRC (2025-06-15). ICRC in Syria: Year in Review 2024. icrc.org

Dr. Ofer Israeli (2025-06-15). From Sykes-Picot to a Greater Syrian Emirates: Post-Assad Syria. moderndiplomacy.eu The Hamas 'terror blow' of October 7, 2023, was intended, in the eyes of the initiator, Yahya Sinwar, to serve as a trigger that would undermine the foundations of the State of Israel. The hope was that such an act would unite the battlefields of the Shiite Axis and its combined military action against the …

Editor (2025-06-15). UN Security Council on Israel's War With Iran. scheerpost.com By Vibhu Mishra / UN News Israel's strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities mark a dangerous new escalation in the Middle East, a top U.N. official told the Security Council during an emergency session convened on Friday. The Council cleared its original schedule to address the rapidly evolving crisis, also hearing from the head …

Paul Engler et al, In These Times. (2025-06-15). Trump's Manufactured Crisis And The Urgency Of Strategic Nonviolence. popularresistance.org We can see on the streets now the precarious situation we've studied around the world: the need for mass resistance to state violence and assaults on democracy, and the concurrent need to maintain nonviolent discipline in a dire and escalating situation. | Following the example of other authoritarians, Donald Trump wants us to burn cars. He wants us to throw rocks. He wants images of chaos‚Äâ—‚Äâespecially violence against police or National Guard troops‚Äâ—‚Äâto flood the evening news. These are precisely the results he wants: to man…

Vibhu Mishra, Consortium News. (2025-06-15). Watch: United Nations Security Council On Israel's War. popularresistance.org Israel's strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities mark a dangerous new escalation in the Middle East, a top U.N. official told the Security Council during an emergency session convened on Friday. | The Council cleared its original schedule to address the rapidly evolving crisis, also hearing from the head of the U.N.-backed international nuclear watchdog, who warned of the grave risks to regional stability and nuclear safety. | Overnight from Thursday into Friday, Israeli military strikes targeted nuclear facilities across Iran, including the Natanz enrichment site. Media reports indicate that Hossein S…

presstv.ir (2025-06-15). Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends. presstv.ir As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting over new energy crisis in EU.

Abdaljawad Omar, Mondoweiss. (2025-06-15). Israel Started A War With Iran, But It Doesn't Know How It Ends. popularresistance.org The war between Israel and Iran marks the culmination of decades of shadow-boxing between Tehran and Tel Aviv. This is a war that has long worn the mask of deniability, played out in assassinations, cyber operations, and various forms of entanglements from Damascus to the Red Sea. Its rules were unwritten but widely understood: escalation without full rupture. But now it's unfolding in a surprise Israeli intelligence and military attack, which was met with a subsequent Iranian retaliation against Israeli military installations and strategic infrastructure. | While Israel's capacity for precise targeting — i…

Gerald Walker (2025-06-14). Diplomacy is Key to Resolving the World's Humanitarian Crises. moderndiplomacy.eu The world today faces a cascade of humanitarian and refugee crises driven by conflicts, climate change, and systemic inequalities. Millions of people have been displaced in Sudan and Gaza, and the hunger crisis in Somalia has been exacerbated by La Niña weather patterns. We are mired in a web of conflict and unending impasse. Only …

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