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The Cradle is an online news magazine covering West Asian geopolitics from within. Support us: http://patreon.com/thecradlemedia

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Julani Vs. Julani

14.05.2025 17:22 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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India–Pakistan standoff: Who is fanning nuclear flames? Amid escalating tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, a deadly attack by unknown forces in Kashmir has sparked a dangerous chain of events, drawing in global powers and pushing the region...

India–Pakistan standoff: Who is fanning nuclear flames?

Amid escalating tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, a deadly attack by unknown forces in Kashmir has sparked a dangerous chain of events, pushing the region closer to the brink of war.

By F.M. Shakil

28.04.2025 20:27 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
Is the India-Pakistan conflict the latest step in Trump's war creep toward China? | Ep.75
YouTube video by The Cradle Is the India-Pakistan conflict the latest step in Trump's war creep toward China? | Ep.75

WATCH | Is the India-Pakistan conflict the latest step in Trump's war creep toward China? | Ep.75

28.04.2025 20:26 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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WATCH | Pakistan's Defense Minister admits his country funded terrorists on behalf of the US and the west.

26.04.2025 16:01 — 👍 10    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1
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'Jews will kill Jews': Israel's top politicos warn of impending civil war Netanyahu’s war is not just on Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq – it is on Israel's own institutions, opposition parties, and the last shreds of internal dissent. Now, t...

'Jews will kill Jews': Israel's top politicos warn of impending civil war

Netanyahu’s war is not just on Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq – it is on Israel's own institutions, opposition parties, and the last shreds of internal dissent.

By Robert Inlakesh

25.04.2025 16:49 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 4
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Senior Israeli officers leak classified data, including ‘preparations’ for Iran attack Members of the air force’s elite Squadron 69 uploaded the documents onto a file management system available to hundreds of thousands of reservists and recruits

Senior Israeli officers leak classified data, including ‘preparations’ for Iran attack

24.04.2025 18:43 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 4
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Spain terminates multimillion deal with Israeli weapons maker Coalition authorities in Madrid have stressed their commitment to 'the Palestinian cause and peace in West Asia'

Spain terminates multimillion deal with Israeli weapons maker

24.04.2025 18:03 — 👍 29    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Turkiye expands military occupation of northern Iraq: Report Turkish forces occupy Iraq under the pretext of combatting the Kurdish PKK group, which recently declared a ceasefire after its leader issued a call to disarm

Turkiye expands military occupation of northern Iraq: Report

24.04.2025 16:33 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Pakistan shuts airspace to India as tensions surge over Kashmir attack The nuclear-powered neighbors have exchanged escalating measures in response to a terror attack in the Baisaran Valley of Indian-administered Kashmir

Pakistan shuts airspace to India as tensions surge over Kashmir attack

24.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BREAKING | A number of casualties in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

24.04.2025 15:12 — 👍 8    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1
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Return of the Ikhwan: Erdogan reboots the Muslim Brotherhood in West Asia With Damascus fallen and Sanaa under bombardment, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seizing a renewed opportunity to reassert Muslim Brotherhood influence across the Arab world – from Syria an...

Return of the Ikhwan: Erdogan reboots the Muslim Brotherhood in West Asia

With Damascus fallen and Sanaa under bombardment, Erdogan is seizing a renewed opportunity to reassert Muslim Brotherhood influence across the Arab world – from Syria and Lebanon to Jordan and Yemen.

By Musa Ozugurlu

24.04.2025 15:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Syria’s stolen daughters: The HTS campaign to enslave Alawite women In post-Assad Syria, the mass abduction and sexual enslavement of Alawite women under Sharaa’s rule mirrors the darkest atrocities of ISIS—yet is met with global silence.

EXCLUSIVE | Syria’s stolen daughters: The HTS campaign to enslave Alawite women

In post-Assad Syria, the mass abduction and sexual enslavement of Alawite women under Sharaa’s rule mirrors the darkest atrocities of ISIS—yet is met with global silence.

23.04.2025 17:27 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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WATCH | How China’s digital currency challenges western hegemony

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23.04.2025 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel has dropped 90,000 tons of US explosives on Gaza—40 kilograms (88 pounds) for every man, woman, and child. That’s 6.5 Hiroshima bombs.

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09.04.2025 12:26 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 3
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Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all? Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump's war is singularly directed at the transformatio...

Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all?

A US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump's war is singularly directed at the transformational global 'changes they are driving together.'

By Pepe Escobar

08.04.2025 15:46 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Lebanon front: Why the US-Israeli war isn’t over Tel Aviv's military escalation to force Hezbollah’s disarmament risks backfiring entirely. The biggest losers will be the US-backed Lebanese government and army, followed by a complete resurgence of a...

Lebanon front: Why the US-Israeli war isn’t over

Tel Aviv's military escalation to force Hezbollah’s disarmament risks backfiring entirely. The biggest losers will be the US-backed Lebanese government and army, followed by a complete resurgence of a more hardline Lebanese resistance.

07.04.2025 17:01 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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The 'Hidden Hands' guiding Lebanese–Syrian strife Border violence and coastal massacres have reignited tensions between Lebanon and Syria, amid concerns that hidden actors are stoking Sunni–Shia sedition to benefit Israel.

The 'Hidden Hands' guiding Lebanese–Syrian strife

Border violence and coastal massacres have reignited tensions between Lebanon and Syria, amid concerns that hidden actors are stoking Sunni–Shia sedition to benefit Israel.

By Tamjid Kobaissy

27.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Netanyahu vows to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza if captives not released Israeli forces have reentered Gaza on the ground, recently marching into the Netzarim corridor, which Tel Aviv was supposed to withdraw from as part of the ceasefire agreement

Netanyahu vows to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza if captives not released

26.03.2025 18:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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All of Lebanon rejects normalization: PM Lebanon’s parliament speaker recently warned that Israel is trying to ‘lure’ the country into normalization talks

All of Lebanon rejects normalization: PM

26.03.2025 18:40 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trump Doctrine: Brinkmanship and blowback in a unipolar hangover Trump’s attempt to reinvent US power through economic coercion, proxy discipline, and selective warfare may be speeding up the decline of US global dominance in a world no longer willing to play by Am...

The Trump Doctrine: Brinkmanship and blowback in a unipolar hangover

Trump’s attempt to reinvent US power through economic coercion, proxy discipline, and selective warfare may be speeding up the decline of US global dominance in a world no longer willing to play by American rules.

By Aymun Mosavi

26.03.2025 18:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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WATCH | Western media seems more absorbed in the drama of a leaked group chat among US officials than in the grave reality of its intended purpose.

Trump's administration has killed over a hundred Yemeni civilians since launching its airstrike campaign on March 15.

26.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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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 dyn...

How Syria's HTS is quietly dismantling the Palestinian cause

Syria’s new Islamist leaders are systematically sidelining Palestinian factions, favoring the US-backed PA and reshaping refugee dynamics in alignment with a broader US-backed strategy to neutralize the Palestinian resistance.

25.03.2025 20:43 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Syria's de facto government receives list of US demands for 'sanctions relief': Report Washington's outreach to Damascus occurred just days after government-led sectarian massacres in Syria's coastal regions

Syria's de facto government receives list of US demands for 'sanctions relief': Report

25.03.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Multiple casualties following new Israeli attacks on Syria The Israeli army said it opened fire and called in an airstrike on ‘terrorists’ in the town of Koya, west of Deraa

Multiple casualties following new Israeli attacks on Syria

25.03.2025 19:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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US intel report determines Iran 'not building nuclear weapon' Tehran says it is 'carefully preparing' its response to a letter from Donald Trump that reportedly gave the Islamic Republic a two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal

US intel report determines Iran 'not building nuclear weapon'

25.03.2025 18:30 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 6
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Over 270 Palestinian children killed in one week by Israel in Gaza Nearly 18,000 children have been killed by Israel in Gaza since the start of the US-sponsored genocide of Palestinians in October 2023

Over 270 Palestinian children killed in one week by Israel in Gaza

25.03.2025 18:17 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Al Jazeera's Hossam Shabat killed by Israel in latest targeted assassination Israel has killed 208 journalists in Gaza since the start of the genocide in October 2023

Al Jazeera's Hossam Shabat killed by Israel in latest targeted assassination

24.03.2025 21:52 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Nine journalists, over 1,000 protesters arrested in Turkiye as anti-govt unrest escalates Nationwide demonstrations in support of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu reached their fifth night on Sunday

Nine journalists, over 1,000 protesters arrested in Turkiye as anti-govt unrest escalates

24.03.2025 21:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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West Bank refugee camps 'reduced to ruins and dust': MSF Over 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in refugee camps by Israeli forces since the start of 'Operation Iron Wall' in January

West Bank refugee camps 'reduced to ruins and dust': MSF

24.03.2025 20:53 — 👍 5    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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UN to 'reduce footprint' in Gaza citing Israeli attacks on staff UN efforts are vital for Palestinians in Gaza as Israel has maintained a total blockade on food and aid for the fourth consecutive week

UN to 'reduce footprint' in Gaza citing Israeli attacks on staff

24.03.2025 20:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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