Incomings and Outgoings Raise Hopes for Restrained Middle-East Policy Under Trump
On Tuesday, keen-eyed observers of the Trump transition will have marked a potentially seismic shift in the incoming administration’s…
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Amid Flurry of Executive Orders, Trump Revokes Security Clearances of Former Intelligence Officials
Washington is abuzz with the Trump show, and if the new President managed to get much sleep, those attempting…
Four Factions and Three Countries Poised for Small War Inside Syria: Reports
Further conflict seems inevitable in Syria two months after the collapse of the Assad regime and the rise of…
Russian Forces Close in on Last Major Donbas Town While Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Garners Little
The new year has seen a renewed effort by the Ukrainian army to advance into Russia’s home oblast of…
Venezuela’s Gonzalez Stands Less of a Chance Than Previous Exiled Opposition Candidate
Inauguration Day for the President of Venezuela is this Friday, and a somewhat doddering political opponent Edmundo Gonzalez recently…
Leaked Iraqi Intelligence Report Implicates US-Forces in the Survival and Protection of ISIS
According to a report from Iraqi intelligence seen by The Cradle, thousands of ISIS fighters emerged from the eastern…
BBC Journalists Reveal Editorial Policy of Whitewashing Israeli War Crimes, Matches New York Times Guidelines
In a worrying trend for media integrity, another major Western news outlet has been revealed to have strict editorial…
Taliban Government Welcome Reopening of Saudi Arabian Embassy in Kabul
The Taliban-controlled government in Kabul has welcomed an announcement by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that it would be…
Sharia Law in Damascus Portrayed as Downfall of a Tyrant While in Kabul it’s a Human Rights Violation
Story at a glance… Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s leader al-Jolani has announced that the new Syria will be governed by…
What Chance Is There That US-North Korea Talks Resume Under Trump?
Of the many foreign policy challenges facing Donald Trump in his second term, fewer share the stark contrasts of…
Kurdish Commander Says They Have Agreement with HTS on Post-War Relations, Sending Delegation to Damascus
Throughout the whole of the conflict in Syria, the population in Kurdistan to the northeast has retained a degree…
Who is Syria’s de Facto leader al-Jolani? — According to WaL
Following the remarkably fast collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, the global news media have had to dig…
Trump’s Foreign Policy Failures Encapsulated by Fresh Terrorist Violence in Syria’s Aleppo
A major terrorist offensive has been launched at Syria’s battered northwest city of Aleppo, led by a mixture of…
Ultimate Irony Comes as Taliban Asks Russia’s Help to Evade US Sanctions, Closing 50-year Loop of Violence
It was said at the time that Operation Cyclone was the most successful covert operation in CIA history. It…
Russia Targets Ukraine with Strange Possibly-Ballistic Missile Following US Escalation
Ukrainian ballistics experts recently issued a press statement regarding an unknown missile type just fired by Russia at the…
US Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire at UN Security Council Even Though it Included Call for Immediate Hostage Release
On Wednesday, the US used its veto in a UN Security Council Resolution to demand an unconditional ceasefire and…
Leaning Minaret Destroyed by ISIS Fully Repaired as ‘Symbol of Resilience’
Workers in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul have finished building the famous leaning minaret, destroyed in 2017 by ISIS…
Russia, China, Iran Will Wait and See When it Comes to Trump 2.0.
Following Donald Trump’s clinching of the presidential office for the next four years, spokesmen in nations for whom US…
Human Rights Rapporteur Urges Expulsion of Israel from United Nation
In a new report submitted at the recent session of the UN General Assembly, the organization’s Special Rapporteur on…
Israeli Forces Beaten Back in Southern Lebanon Turn to More Airstrikes
In the same way that resistance in Afghanistan caused the US to rely more and more on drones and…