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…
As the Syrian conflict completes 10 years, new diplomatic initiatives are taking shape
By Talmiz Ahmad The 10-year commemoration of Syria’s bloody civil conflict in March has evoked expressions of anguish and some new…
Rights group slams Denmark’s ‘dangerous’ decision to return Syrian refugees
A European human rights monitor has expressed “grave concern” over Denmark’s recent decision to strip 94 Syrian refugees of their…
Syria regime stealing opponents’ land
Syrian authorities are unlawfully confiscating the homes and lands of Syrians who fled Syrian-Russian military attacks in Idlib and Hama…