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The disappearance of Razan Zaitouneh and her colleagues has been one of the greatest mysteries of the Syrian war — until today. DW’s investigative unit hunted clues across six countries to track down the perpetrators.
By the summer of 2013, documenting human rights abuses had become taboo even (...)
It’s difficult to recollect the euphoria of the early days of the 2011 uprising in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Reflecting on that time, Syrians speak of the breaking of the “fear barrier”—the suffocating authoritarianism and repression that had silenced them for decades. At the (...)
Staff at Aqeirbat hospital call on the UN Secretary General to visit Idlib and see the evidence of deliberate targeting of hospitals by Syrian government and Russian forces firsthand – picture: Al-Atareb news website via Facebook
Medical staff at Aqeirbat hospital in the countryside near Idlib (...)
The Caesar Bill has become the subject of debate among progressive and democratic Syrian actors. But what are the key arguments surrounding the bill?
On December 20, 2019, US President Donald Trump signed into law the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, so named after the Syrian military (...)
Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience By Joseph Daher Haymarket Books, 2019, 386 pages, $29 paperback.
PERHAPS MORE THAN any other recent question, the Syrian Revolution confused and divided the international left. Many dismissed the revolt as a “color revolution” (...)
Demonstration in Maarat Al Nu’man in solidarity with Kafar Takharim and against HTS, 7 November. Photo credit: MMC
Over the past few days a popular uprising has broken out across Idlib against the hardline Islamist group HTS (formerly Al-Qaeda linked Nusra) which is militarily dominant in much (...)
As current international pushes for Syrian refugee returns take hold, European solidarity efforts must understand that the danger of return is not simply war but corrupt and brutal state repression.
no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark Warsan Shire ‘Home’
Crossing the (...)
In the aftermath of Syria’s civil war, Bashar al-Assad’s regime has deepened its neoliberal economic approach. This is heightening the inequality that led to war in the first place.
INTRODUCTION
As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has regained power, thanks to Russian and Iranian (...)
Bashar al-Assad has started confiscating the homes of Syrians who fled during the Civil War. For decades, his clan has purged the state of all but the most fanatical loyalists: now, it’s doing the same to society itself.
In September 2011, Syrian leftist Yassin al-Haj Salah warned that the (...)
Government’s aid and reconstruction policies used to punish perceived opponents and reward supporters, HRW says.
The Syrian government is co-opting humanitarian aid and reconstruction assistance to entrench its repressive policies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a new report.
Now that (...)
As it draws closer to the eve of September 30—when three years earlier Russian military intervention in Syria first began—it is telling that Russia’s influence in Syria continues to grow on the ground and internationally, particularly through various de-escalation zones, the Astana peace process, (...)
The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is threatening to carry out a massive assault on the province of Idlib, including a potential chemical weapons attack, in a bid to crush one of the last strongholds of opposition. Such an assault would have a potentially devastating impact on (...)
MORE THAN SEVEN years after the beginning of the Syrian popular uprising, which was gradually transformed into a deadly war with an international character, the situation in the country is catastrophic at all levels. The popular classes are the most affected with continuous suffering.
At the (...)
As the forces of Bashar al-Assad, backed by the Russian air force, reconquered Daraa city, the birthplace of the Syrian revolution, an aid worker reported to Kareem Shaheen in The Guardian that “people have accepted the reality that the entire world is fighting against the revolution, and (...)
Syria’s civil war seems to be nearing end amid government advances - but at appalling cost
Crossing into Syria from neighbouring Lebanon, visitors are greeted by giant posters of the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad. The signs proclaim: “Welcome to victorious Syria.”
In the capital, Damascus, (...)
Administration officials seek to reassure allies as US pulls funds for stabilizing captured areas, citing contributions from allies
Saudi Arabia has pledged $100m intended to help revitalize communities like Raqqa, above. Photograph: Amnesty International/PA
The US is preparing for the “final (...)
The case, in France, expands opportunities for campaigns to hold companies legally responsible for their contribution to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The French cement giant Lafarge was charged on Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorists, for allegedly paying nearly €13m to Isis and other militant jihadists, to keep a factory open in war-torn Syria.
The company, whose Syrian subsidiary paid the armed groups through intermediaries, has also been charged with endangering the lives of former employees at the cement (...)
When rescue workers drag civilians from the rubble left by airstrikes, they don’t pause to check who fired the missiles
For years, Syria’s civil defence workers have been subjected to a vicious online propaganda campaign by the “electronic armies” of the Assad regime and Russia. The digital (...)
Theresa May pays tribute to life-saving rescue group working in ‘horrendous’ conditions and will look at boost in British support
Britain could increase its funding to the Syrian volunteer rescue group the White Helmets following reports that Donald Trump is withdrawing US support.
Theresa May (...)
Last week Rami Hennawi’s family received the news from Syrian authorities that their son and partner died in prison and they can collect his body. Rami was a pacifist leftist young activist who was detained in 2012. Five years he spent in the most inhumane conditions in one of Assad’s torture houses. Rami came from Sweida, a majority Druze city under regime control and considered in general pro-Assad. But in fact, the underground resistance against Assad in Sweida is strong. If anything, (...)
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