April 11, 2024

Stuck in Celestial Hades

Residents of the upscale Mazzeh neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus were stunned when an airstrike recently reduced the Iranian consulate to rubble. Thirteen people, including two generals and five others in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, perished in the attack. Israeli forces who have been...

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March 14, 2024

Unburying the Past

Swiss prosecutors this week indicted the uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Rifaat Assad, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over his alleged role in a massacre in western Syria in the early 1980s, Voice of America reported. On Tuesday, Switzerland’s attorney general...

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August 24, 2023

Fed Up

Hundreds of Syrians protested in the country’s southern regions this week, the latest expression of defiance against the autocratic government of President Bashar Assad amid a worsening economic crisis, Al-Monitor reported. Protesters marched in the southern city of Suwayda and the surrounding areas to demonstrate against...

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June 14, 2023

Try, Try Again

The Netherlands and Canada filed a complaint against Syria at the International Court of Justice this week, alleging that the Syrian government has tortured thousands of civilians since the start of the civil war more than a decade ago, Sky News reported. The complaint accused the...

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May 16, 2023

Welcome Back

The Arab League recently welcomed Syria back into the fold after suspending the country’s membership 12 years ago, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched his crackdown on rebels wanting to bring an end to his tyrannical rule. Around half a million people have died and...

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May 09, 2023

Welcome Back

The Arab League readmitted Syria after a nearly 12-year absence this week, a move many observers suggested could rehabilitate the international image of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, CNN reported. The league suspended Syria’s membership in 2011 after Assad launched a brutal crackdown against anti-government protests that...

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January 30, 2023

Toxic Truths

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops were responsible for the 2018 chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Douma that killed 43 civilians, according to an extensive investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Washington Post reported. The global chemical weapons...

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December 06, 2022

A Little Stir

Protesters stormed a government building in a southern Syrian city this week in a rare anti-government demonstration over rising prices and economic hardships that have impacted the war-torn country, Al Jazeera reported. On Sunday, more than 200 people rallied in front of the governor’s office in...

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July 14, 2022

Oozing Wounds

Recently, some British tourists in Aleppo marveled at how rebel snipers a few years ago fired on Syrian government troops from the very same positions where archers nearly a millennia ago defended the ancient Citadel of Aleppo from Christian Crusaders. European tourists are returning to Syria. These...

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May 05, 2022

A Fickle Welcome

Turkey is preparing to return one million Syrian refugees to northern Syria amid increasing economic woes and criticism from the opposition ahead of the presidential elections next year, the Middle East Eye reported. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this week that the government is building 100,000...

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