Russian-brokered Syrian-Turkish rapprochement will bury prospects of a divided Syria, with the potential for opposition factions to be co-opted into the armed forces. The newly-initiated Syrian-Turkish rapprochement talks are headed in Damascus’ favor and the…
Category: The Central Asia, Middle East, and North Africa Region
The Cradle’s writers offer up their predictions for 2023. The common theme is massive global shifts, some good, some bad. Predictions are a notoriously painful exercise. In the world of geopolitics, especially during a time…
The Cradle speaks with a senior Hezbollah military official in Iraq on the crucial role played by Iran’s late Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani in leading the resistance against ISIS. Qassem Soleimani, the…
: Israel’s new government is planning to give de facto operational control of the national police and heavily armed border police to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of a party of right wing, racist extremists. It…
We were defining success. Having lavishly financed and miserably failed all options that were on, under, above, besides, and in secret compartments of the metaphorical-turned-legendary table against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the unholy trinity,…
“… ANOTHER FAMILIAR SCENE ‘MADE IN USISRAEL’?” … In Iran, riots and mass protests continue for a third week. The Western globalist media wrote that this was caused by the death of Mahsa Amini, who…
The traditional Anglo-American strategy of playing “divide and conquer” with Muslim states may have run its course With Covid quarantines no longer a hindrance, summits have returned to the diplomatic agenda. First, the West returned…
A year ago, the US suffered its most dramatic military defeat of the 21st century, so far The Americans were preparing to pull their troops out of Afghanistan for months, but the operation still turned…
Two main points should be singled out that require their solution on Afghan soil after, so to speak, the legacy that the United States left here to detonate future large-scale conflicts. In connection with…
[Editor’s note: Please click the following URL to see the video clip on the said topic.] Russia started to give a rebuff to Israel for their constant dragging into Syrian affairs. Russian electronic warfare capabilities…