The problem here is that we no longer have a functioning, professional press to tell us if any of this is true. Even Fox News is nothing more than a tepid headline service.
So we are left to blogs which are often written by kooks.
So, who knows?
Correct you are. Nearly no professional press... WND is good, and a few others, but they’re few and far between.
And blogs, as you say, are often written by kooks.
However, as the author, I can assure you I’m no kook. I write sourced analyses and confer with multiple people before publishing. I can’t promise they are always 100% spot on accurate - I don’t live in Syria, or Qatar, or Pakistan - but I can at least assure you that they’re well researched and to a large extent vetted by people more familiar than I am with the situations.