My latest article on Strategic Culture: Is al-Julani losing his grip on the Damascus Caliphate? https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/01/24/is-al-julani-losing-his-grip-on-the-damascus-caliphate/ Due to the incompetent foreign policy of American and European governments, the Middle East is back to square one – back to 2011 and a new war on terror. In recent weeks, we have seen how Caliph al-Julani – known globally as Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa – struggles to maintain control over his caliphate, formerly known as Syria. He is slowly losing his command over the territory and his grip on the Syrian people. Under his one-year rule, numerous massacres have been committed against Alawites, Christians, Druze, and, most recently, the Kurds. The first major massacre targeted the Alawites. The most intense violence occurred between March 6 and 9, 2025. Next came the massacre of the Druze, whom the Damascus caliphate views as apostates, along with the Alawites and Kurds. The violence against the Druze began in April 2025 in Jaramana and Sahnaya, towns in the Rif Dimashq Governorate, after a falsified audio recording – falsely attributed to a Druze leader and promoted by the caliphate – insulted the Prophet Muhammad. The massacres continued in Suwayda, southern Syria, where the U.S.-led uprising for regime change began in 2011 with the arming of Iraqi jihadists – remnants and paid mercenaries of the former Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein. Iraq, where the U.S. launched a bloody war under false pretenses in 2003, is the cradle of all modern Middle Eastern wars. Read more: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/01/24/is-al-julani-losing-his-grip-on-the-damascus-caliphate/

My latest article in Dutch easily to be translated in any language:
Mark Rutte de Trump-fluisteraar
https://freesuriyah.eu/2026/01/26/mark-rutte-de-trump-fluisteraar/
Kunnen we dit allemaal nog serieus nemen? Als je het niet beter wist, zou je denken dat we in een slechte film zitten, of zelfs in een Donald Duck-tekenfilm. Maar lieve mensen, het is echt waar: er zijn psychopaten aan de macht die zeggen wat ze willen en ons, het gewone publiek, “verachtelijk” vinden.

De huidige situatie doet me ook denken aan het sprookje van de Deense Hans Christian Andersen, “De nieuwe kleren van de keizer“. Daarin speelt Trump natuurlijk de keizer en Mark Rutte de wever die zogenaamd de nieuwe kleren gaat maken.

Het verhaal draait om een ​​ijdele keizer (Trump) die meer om zijn kleren (Nobel vredesprijs) gaf dan om wat dan ook. Een verkorte versie van het verhaal: Twee oplichters ( een daarvan Rutte) arriveerden in de stad en deden zich voor als bekwame wevers. Ze beweerden een magische stof te kunnen maken die onzichtbaar zou zijn voor iedereen die dom of ongeschikt voor een ambt was. Dat lukte ze natuurlijk niet, en dus paradeerde de keizer naakt door de stad, en iedereen bewonderde zijn zogenaamde onzichtbare kleding. Totdat een jongetje riep: “Maar hij draagt ​​helemaal niets hij is naakt!” Pas toen durfde de rest van het volk de waarheid te zeggen tegen de keizer en werden de wevers opgepakt!

De moraal van het sprookje is dat men de waarheid moet durven spreken, zelfs als dit ingaat tegen de heersende (collectieve) mening of autoriteit.

Lees meer: https://freesuriyah.eu/2026/01/26/mark-rutte-de-trump-fluisteraar/

On Sunday, January 25, 2026, Iranian authorities in Tehran unveiled a mural depicting a response to a potential US attack on their country. The mural overlays images of a US aircraft carrier seen from above, alongside the classic patterns of the US flag. According to the interpretation, the white stars resemble explosions from a missile strike, while the red stripes symbolize blood flowing into the ocean.

The 27 member states of the European Union adopted far-reaching legislation on Monday to phase out Russian gas supplies. With this, the EU is implementing its economically questionable plan to ban gas imports from Russia into the EU.
Meanwhile, Germany's gas storage facilities are currently 38 percent full. This is approximately 24 percentage points lower than the average for the years 2017 through 2021 (data as of January 24, 2026). www.ndr.de/nachrichte...
Meanwhile, Germany's gas storage facilities are currently 38 percent full. This is approximately 24 percentage points less than the average for the years 2017 through 2021 (data from January 24, 2026). The Netherlands is not doing much better, though slightly better, due to the gas fields in Slochteren, which have since been closed and the components given away for free to Ukraine. The gas storage facilities were 54% full in the spring of 2025 and were 54% full in July.

Laith Marouf is joined by Ali Jezzini, alMayadeen’s Military Analyst, to survey multiple locations attacked by the Zionists north of the Litany River in South Lebanon. The attacks were all directed towards civilian homes and businesses as a punishment for the stedfast Lebanese people, to increase pressure on HIzbullah, and to help the Collaborationist regime in Beirut disarm the Resistance without having to confront it themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-uok_UK9s

Today marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazis' most horrific concentration camp, by the Red Army (Russia, then the Soviet Union). It seems that virtually no media outlet is paying attention to this. Of course, the world is in the grip of new wars; some even claim we've entered World War III, and looking at the world, it certainly seems that way. The Middle East is on fire. In my opinion, this is a direct consequence of the Holocaust. Many radicalized Jews, radicalized by what was done to them, were given a state—Israel—through the now-failing UN system, without regard to the consequences or the fact that a population (Palestinians) already lived there. These Holocaust survivors projected their radicalized ideology and trauma onto subsequent generations. We are now seeing a situation developing in which Israel has become a fascist state, which is now being projected onto Palestinians and other Arabs with segregation, oppression, and wars. That's why history is so important; the story shouldn't be told from just one perspective, but from all sides, both Jewish and Arab. It's hatred between people that is capable of great evil. The same applies to the West, Europe, where the predecessors of the Israeli fascist regime, the Nazis, did the same, and that has direct consequences for what we're seeing happening in the Middle East today. The Russians have been demonized by the West for years because of their communist past, and not a word is said in the West about the fact that they were the ones who liberated the survivors of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. It seems that even Auschwitz, where the most horrific things happened, couldn't establish peace between people. I think evil has taken over humanity...

27 January 1945 Liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army

Besides the liberation of Auschwitz it's also the 82nd anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade. President Putin laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument, in St. Petersburg.

This truly shows that Syria is no more as a country. It has become a caliphate as I write many times: "️A new decision issued by the Syrian government-appointed governor of Latakia bans women from wearing makeup entirely in all directorates, companies, and government institutions across the Latakia Governorate during working hours." That's the beginning of forcing women to wear the hijab and all those people who said the rule under Assad was bad, should realize that there was modernity, but now the fanatics took over...very sad situation

Internationaler Holocaust-Gedenktag: Rote Armee befreite Auschwitz vor 81 Jahren

Am 27. Januar, dem Internationalen Holocaust-Gedenktag, wird an die Befreiung des nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungs- und Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz-Birkenau durch die Rote Armee im Jahr 1945 erinnert. In dem größten Vernichtungslager der Nationalsozialisten wurden zwischen 1,1 und 1,5 Millionen Menschen, überwiegend Juden, ermordet.

Die Gedenkveranstaltungen zum 81. Jahrestag in Polen finden ohne russische Delegation statt. Zugleich wird international über Erinnerungskultur und historische Verantwortung diskutiert, während Vertreter aus Politik und Zivilgesellschaft die Bedeutung des Gedenkens und der historischen Aufarbeitung betonen.

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1 Year of "Ceasefire" in Lebanon: Deterrence Ceases & Zionists Fire Laith Marouf is joined by Steve Sweeney, RT’s War Correspondent, as they head to South Lebanon to villages bordering occupied Palestine. On the way, a Zionist air-raid targeted a residential home in the village Kfar Dounine, and the team stopes to inspect the damage, before they continue their travels to Blida were they discuss the latest attacks on the village as well as the latest political developments in the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUV_QBPM--0

Southern Lebanon is becoming the second Gaza Strip.

Southern Lebanon is becoming the second Gaza Strip.

Since late 2025, the Trump administration has focused on a strategy to reduce Hezbollah's influence in southern Lebanon through a combination of security pressure and economic incentives. Key plans include a proposed "Trump Economic Zone" near the Israeli border, backed by investments from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, along with $14.2 million in security assistance to strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces. Israel is doing the dirty work, bombing southern Lebanon daily, primarily targeting civilians. 85,000 Lebanese have already been displaced, their homes and properties destroyed, and the world remains silent once again. Trump, the US king, only thinks about real estate and dollars. It's so shameful, but the Saudis and Qataris, as always, are also playing a nefarious role. To put it bluntly: they want to kill all Shiites, Christians, and anyone who doesn't adhere to Sunni political ideology, because it has nothing to do with Islam, but only with money and power, at the cost of thousands of lives—first Gazans, Syrians, and now Lebanese. Who's next? Perhaps Europeans should be worried about Europe too... The US is a new colonial power; the parallels with the British Empire are obvious.

Medvedev: Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile-defense project is highly provocative and violates the principle of inseparability between offensive and defensive strategic arms enshrined in the New START Treaty.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8377464
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on the key Russian-American agreement expiring in February. On February 5, the Russian-American Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms (START) expires. After this date, for the first time in more than half a century, Moscow and Washington will be left without agreements in the field of arms control and without a negotiation process to develop any new agreements in this area. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, leader of the United Russia party, during whose presidency the New START Treaty was signed, spoke about the importance of the New START Treaty

China is closely tracking the scale of the Israeli Mossad’s intelligence penetration into Iran, especially after the 2025 strikes by Israel that laid bare substantial security weaknesses deep inside Iran. The most distinctive feature of China’s stance and conduct regarding this issue is its characterization of the events as the "opening of a Pandora’s box, posing risks to global security." Chinese experts and military analysts underscore that the Israeli intelligence agency’s advances in infiltrating Iranian security services and covert sites threaten to have profound implications for global stability.

2: Official Beijing interprets Israel’s capacity to place operatives within Iran and incapacitate its air defense and radar networks from the inside as a novel breed of intelligence warfare, one that demands increased alertness and a reinforcement of China’s own national security. Countering the growing operations of Israeli intelligence, China has broadened its technical collaboration with Tehran, focusing on detecting embedded agents. Reports from July 2025 have documented Iranian-Chinese joint efforts to investigate how Israel gained access to official Iranian data repositories and government software systems, which house archives including civil status records and passport details. This joint initiative seeks to close the technical gaps that Mossad exploited to reach Iran’s critical military and nuclear facilities.

Alexander Dugin on sovereignty and escalation in a world without rules.

Conversation with Alexander Dugin on the Sputnik TV program Escalation. https://www.multipolarpress.com/p/multipolarity-by-force?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true