Kurdish Officials Demand Help With Looming COVID ‘Catastrophe’ in NE Syria
Kurdish officials in northeast Syria are expressing concerns over a sharp increase in coronavirus cases in their region, calling on…
Iran’s powerful Guard faces scrutiny after attacks
The recent sabotage at Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility is just the latest setback for the country’s Revolutionary Guard, though…
Syria’s Assad dismisses central bank chief Karfoul
BEIRUT (Reuters) -President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syria’s Central Bank Governor Hazem Karfoul, the state news agency reported on Tuesday.…
How Syrian women are fighting a war – and patriarchy
Last month marked 10 years since the beginning of the Syrian uprising when peaceful protesters, galvanised by the Arab Spring,…
Kurds impose 10-day curfew in NE Syria amid coronavirus wave
A 10-day curfew in areas controlled by U.S.-backed fighters in northeast Syria went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to…
100 Days: Tokyo Olympics marked by footnotes and asterisks
TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo pitched itself as “a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2…
War crimes in Syria: a step on the road to justice for the victims?
Anwar al-Bunni does not hide his joy over the sentencing, on 24 February 2021, of former Syrian intelligence agent Eyad…
Syrian air force may have dropped chlorine bomb on town in rebel area in 2018 – chemical arms watchdog
The global chemical weapons watchdog has “reasonable grounds to believe” that Syria’s air force dropped a chlorine bomb on a…
Syrian organizations work to remove war remnants in northwest Syria
Syria has been labeled one of the worst countries in the world in terms of the number of mines planted…
UN: ‘2.7M people live in difficult conditions in NW Syria’
The Turkish diplomat heading the UN General Assembly said on Saturday that the greatest human catastrophe the world has ever…