Félicien BretonMay 8, 2023

"So she gets diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 and makes a very sort of public showing of this. […] She’s wearing these scarves and is doing a lot of work with cancer-stricken children. And so, you know, this sort of public adoration increased. And then after that time, once the couple was sort of reunited and closer, she gets given parts of the economics portfolio of the country."

Read or listen: https://www.ft.com/content/05f5a716-c156-4c71-bdf7-d2f13d7ff0ff #Syria #humanitarian #relief #publicOpinion #preying #Assad #power #aid

The rising influence of Mrs Assad

China corruption probes are going after financial executives for ‘hedonism’

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Show threadFélicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Nov 22, 2024

"For Assad, aligning with Israel’s security interests – even covertly – may offer a pathway to rehabilitating his international standing."

https://levant24.com/news/2024/11/israeli-analyst-alleges-assad-iran-and-israel-are-silent-partners/

#Syria #Assad #MiddleEast #IsraelWars #Hezbollah #Haaretz #publicOpinion #predation #allies #geoPolitics #dictatorship #strategy

Israeli Analyst Alleges Assad, Iran and Israel are “Silent Partners” - levant24

According to London-based Al-Quds, an article by Haaretz analyst Zvi Barel has drawn attention to a nuanced, if controversial, claim: that Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Iran, and Israel operate as “silent partners” in addressing Israeli regional goals, particularly concerning Hezbollah. The claim highlights contradictions in Assad’s rhetoric and actions, suggesting a pragmatic prioritization of […]

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Show threadFélicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Dec 9, 2024

"Syria's rapid collapse – driven by internal decay, external aggression, and shifting alliances – has plunged it into uncertainty, leaving the nation's fate entangled in regional and global power struggles that only its people can resolve."
By Mawadda Iskandar: https://thecradle.co/articles/the-fall-of-the-syrian-arab-republic-now-at-the-mercy-of-regional-and-global-power-plays

#Rojava #Kurds #Syria #Kurdistan #HTS #Damas #Idleb #Assad #Alauites #Alawites #Shiites #AxisOfResistance #Hezbollah #Hizbollah #Jihadism #Jihadists #Turkey #Erdoğan #Lebanon #Israel #Bashir #alBashir #alGolani #Golani #alJolani #Jolani #alJulani #Julani #YPG #SDF #SNA #Turkiye

The fall of the Syrian Arab Republic, now at the mercy of regional and global power plays

Syria's rapid collapse – driven by internal decay, external aggression, and shifting alliances – has plunged it into uncertainty, leaving the nation's fate entangled in regional and global power struggles that only its people can resolve.

thecradle.co
Show threadFélicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Apr 2, 2025

"Under Ahmad al-Sharaa's direction, Syria’s new Islamist leaders are systematically sidelining Palestinian factions, favoring the US-backed PA, dismantling Iran-linked groups, and reshaping refugee dynamics in alignment with a broader US-backed strategy to neutralize the Palestinian resistance": https://thecradle.co/articles/how-syrias-hts-is-quietly-dismantling-the-palestinian-cause

@palestine @syria 🧵

#Syria #HTS #alSharaa #Sharaa #Damas #Alauites #Alawites #Shiites #AxisOfResistance #Hezbollah #Hizbollah #Jihadism #Jihadists #Turkey #Erdoğan #Turkiye #Lebanon #Israel #Bashir #alBashir #alGolani #Golani #alJolani #Jolani #alJulani #Julani #SNA #UNRWA #refugees

How Syria's HTS is quietly dismantling the Palestinian cause

Under Ahmad al-Sharaa's direction, Syria’s new Islamist leaders are systematically sidelining Palestinian factions, favoring the US-backed PA, dismantling Iran-linked groups, and reshaping refugee dynamics in alignment with a broader US-backed strategy to neutralize the Palestinian resistance.

thecradle.co
Show threadFélicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱

"Israel and HTS are systematically assassinating Syria’s military engineers and scientists, ensuring the country remains defenseless and strategically crippled against future aggression."

https://thecradle.co/articles/inside-the-hts-israeli-campaign-to-eliminate-syrias-military-engineers-and-scientists @syria @israel 🧵

Inside the HTS-Israeli campaign to eliminate Syria’s military engineers and scientists

Israel and HTS are systematically assassinating Syria’s military engineers and scientists, ensuring the country remains defenseless and strategically crippled against future aggression.

thecradle.co
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Show threadFélicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Apr 15, 2025

"Despite public posturing, Israel and Turkiye are not adversaries in Syria but cooperative actors carving up the country along lines drawn by US-led regional designs."
by Gulriz Ergoz: https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-and-turkiye-in-syria-no-clash-just-a-division-of-spoils @syria @israel @turkiye @turkey

#Jihadism #Jihadists #Turkiye #Turkey #Erdoğan #Syria #HTS #Bashir #alBashir #alGolani #Golani #alJolani #Jolani #alJulani #Julani #geopolitics #israel

Israel and Turkiye in Syria: No clash, just a division of spoils

Despite public posturing, Israel and Turkiye are not adversaries in Syria but cooperative actors carving up the country along lines drawn by US-led regional designs.

thecradle.co
Show threadFélicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Mar 20

Joseph Daher writes about the evolution of Kurdish politics after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and argues that the liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular classes as a whole are bound together: https://tempestmag.org/2026/03/the-kurds-and-the-syrian-revolutionary-process/

#Jihadism #Jihadists #Turkiye #Turkey #Syria #HTS #Bashir #alBashir #alGolani #Golani #alJolani #Jolani #alJulani #Julani #geopolitics #israel #Kurdistan #Rojava #Kurds #MiddleEast