For today, a link to reports from the Cradle and Reuters, and to commentary from Orinoco Tribune via Popular Resistance; others or at least their headlines are accessible by clicking on their names below. (MEDIA, YEMEN, WEST BANK, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  SYRIA 3-25-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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U.S. intel report blames government forces for ‘violence, instability’ in Syria. From the Cradle. The U.S. Department of National Intelligence acknowledged in its Annual Threat Assessment of 2025 that Syrian government forces were responsible for the massacres committed against minorities on Syria’s coast earlier this month. READ MORE . . .

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‘There is no blank check’: Syrian leader told to rein in Jihadis, by Samia Nakhoul and Timour Azhari | Reuters  DAMASCUS — Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has a lot to prove to win over Western powers. If the first few weeks of his rule are anything to go by, he may be heading in the wrong direction. The West is watching . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 22  Syria’s genocide, claiming over 10,000 lives, is not a sectarian conflict, by Fiorella Isabel | Orinoco Tribune / Popular Resistance   The Syrian genocide and assaults on Gaza and Yemen are part of a deliberate, long-standing UK-U.S.-Israeli-Western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the axis of Resistance. Syria’s massacres . . . READ MORE . . .

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