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  •  | The Cradle | MR Online

    India and Pakistan lock horns: Who won and why?

    Originally published: The Cradle on May 12, 2025 by The Cradle's Military Correspondent (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted May 15, 2025)

    In the biggest aerial dogfight since World War II, two nuclear-armed rivals test the boundaries of conflict and deterrence–with some jaw-dropping surprises in the mix.

  •  | Photo The Cradle | MR Online

    Diego Garcia: Ethnically cleansed for U.S. forever wars

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 18, 2025 by Aidan J. Simardone (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Apr 21, 2025)

    As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia–a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.

  •  | Photo The Cradle | MR Online

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

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 8, 2025 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a U.S. 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.’

  •  | Photo Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    In Syria, the lunatics are running the asylum

    Originally published: The Cradle on January 31, 2025 by Fuad Walid Itayim (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Feb 04, 2025)

    As the dust settles in regime-changed Syria, a new reality emerges–one where the victors are not liberators, but former Al-Qaeda warlords restyled in suits, shaking hands with world leaders, and reshaping the state in their own sectarian image.

  •  | Photo Credit AFP | MR Online

    Pentagon confirms ‘around 2,000’ U.S. troops deployed in Syria

    Originally published: The Cradle on December 20, 2024 by The Cradle News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Dec 23, 2024)

    Washington quietly doubled the official number of troops present inside Syria at an unspecified point before the fall of Damascus.

  •  | Photo credit CNN | MR Online

    ‘Tortured and left to die’: New details emerge about Israel’s murder of prominent Gaza surgeon

    Originally published: The Cradle on November 16, 2024 by The Cradle News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Nov 18, 2024)

    A new report from Britain’s Sky News provides details of Adnan al-Bursh’s death by torture in Israel’s Ofer Prison.

  •  | Photo The Cradle | MR Online

    The manufactured ‘pogrom’: Weaponizing chaos in Amsterdam

    Originally published: The Cradle on November 10, 2024 by Anis Raiss (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Nov 11, 2024)

    The western world and mainstream media have once again jumped on an opportunity to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism after Israeli football hooligans, protected by the Mossad, wreaked havoc on the streets of Amsterdam, deliberately provoking a harsh response.

  •  | Photo Beeld JEROEN JUMELETANP | MR Online

    Israel bars soldiers from going to the Netherlands after pro-genocide mob sparks street violence

    Originally published: The Cradle on November 8, 2024 by The Cradle News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Nov 09, 2024)

    Clashes erupted after Israeli football fans chanted slurs against Arabs, interrupted the moment of silence held for the Valencia flood victims, and violated private property across the city by tearing down Palestinian flags.

  •  | Photo The Cradle | MR Online

    Israel’s war on Lebanon’s history and heritage

    Originally published: The Cradle on November 6, 2024 by Ghassan Jawad (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Nov 08, 2024)

    Israel isn’t just fighting Hezbollah. It intentionally seeks to eradicate Lebanon’s rich cultural heritage and collective history, aiming to raise the Lebanese cost of supporting the resistance and reshape the state’s political and demographic fabric.

  •  | Lisa Johnson Photo x | MR Online

    U.S. ambassador to Lebanon promotes ‘internal uprising’ to assist Israel: Report

    Originally published: The Cradle on October 29, 2024 (more by The Cradle)  |

    A Lebanese security source has revealed the U.S. ambassador is calling on her allies to ‘do their part’ to destroy Hezbollah.

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    Washington keeps silent after Israel arrests U.S. journalist over report on Iran attack

    Originally published: The Cradle on October 11, 2024 by The Cradle Staff (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Oct 14, 2024)

    The U.S. government has yet to comment on the case of Jeremy Loffredo, an independent U.S. journalist who remains in Israeli police detention on suspicion of “endangering national security.” Loffredo may potentially face life imprisonment or the death penalty after reporting the locations where Iranian missiles struck in the attack launched by Iran earlier this […]

  •  | Palestinian children in Rafah Gaza show their gratitude to pro Palestinian protesters in the US on April 28 2024 Photo credit Tareq AlhelouCNN | MR Online

    Over 11,000 Palestinian students killed by Israel in less than a year

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 16, 2024 by The Cradle News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Sep 19, 2024)

    According to UNICEF, the lack of schooling for younger children “threatens their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Parents are reporting significant mental health and psychosocial impacts among children, including feelings of increased frustration and isolation.”

  •  | Photo Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    From 11 September to 7 October: The fake ‘War on Terror’ collapses

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 13, 2024 (more by The Cradle)  |

    For years, the U.S. executed Israel’s regional destabilization program using phantom terrorists as justification for the ‘War on Terror.’ But 7 October 2023 killed Washington’s never-ending war project–with a flip of the switch, U.S. adversaries have now turned the ‘Long War’ on Israel.

  •  | Photo credit AA | MR Online

    Israel begins biggest West Bank operation in decades

    Originally published: The Cradle on August 28, 2024 by News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Sep 01, 2024)

    The Israeli army is planning forced evacuations of West Bank civilians, and the military operation in the territory is expected to last several days.

  •  | US Central Command via AP | MR Online

    U.S. army aided Israel in bloody military op launched from Gaza ‘Aid Pier’

    Originally published: The Cradle on June 8, 2024 (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2024)

    The operation saw the mass killing of over 200 Palestinians, with health officials describing the inside of Al-Aqsa Hospital as a ‘slaughterhouse’

  •  | Israeli mobs set homes cars ablaze in West Bank pogrom | MR Online

    Israeli mobs set homes, cars ablaze in West Bank pogrom

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 13, 2024 by The Cradle Staff (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2024)

    Hundreds of extremist settlers laid waste to Palestinian villages in the West Bank under the protection of the Israeli army.

  •  | Sahels Axis of Resistance | MR Online

    The Sahel’s ‘Axis of Resistance’

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 1, 2024 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism–ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging the old multinationals. Multipolarity, after all, cannot flower without resistance paving its path.

  •  | cradle | MR Online

    The Turkiye–Israel trade boom: Talk is cheap, but money talks

    Originally published: The Cradle on March 14, 2024 by A Cradle Correspondent (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Mar 18, 2024)

    While denouncing Israel’s actions in Gaza as a ‘genocide’ and ‘inhumane,’ Erdogan is stealthily supplying Israel and its military forces with all the necessary goods to keep on ticking.

  •  | Photo credit Reuters | MR Online

    UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit ‘Hamas links’

    Originally published: The Cradle on March 9, 2024 by The Cradle Staff (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2024)

    Israel has sought for years to dismantle the UN agency to destroy Palestinian refugees’ right of return.

  •  | Photo The Cradle | MR Online

    ‘Swarming’ the U.S. in West Asia, until it folds

    Originally published: The Cradle on January 29, 2024 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The U.S. is so deeply mired in an unwinnable battle from the Levant to the Persian Gulf that only its adversaries in China, Russia, and Iran can bail it out.

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