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Middle East latest: Israeli strike on a Gaza school kills 17 people sheltering there
5 days, 5 hours ago

Middle East latest: Israeli strike on a Gaza school kills 17 people sheltering there

Associated Press  

Israeli airstrikes slammed into two schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Thursday, a Health Ministry official said, killing at least 17 people including five children in one of the schools. The resolution seeks the ICJ’s guidance on additional questions about its July ruling, including what Israel’s obligations are “to ensure and facilitate the unhindered provision of urgently needed …

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Syrians can finally tell their stories about Assad's chemical attacks
1 week ago

Syrians can finally tell their stories about Assad's chemical attacks

NPR  

Syrians can finally tell their stories about Assad's chemical attacks Survivors of the Syrian regime's chemical attacks are free now speak about how they lost their families. FADEL: Toufic is in his brother Mej's home just above the family tire shop. It found reasonable grounds that it was Assad's air force that dropped two yellow cylinders of toxic chlorine gas …

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Inside Bashar al-Assad's rise to Syrian president: From London eye doctor to tyrant after tragedy put him first in line to inherit throne as murderous dictator
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Inside Bashar al-Assad's rise to Syrian president: From London eye doctor to tyrant after tragedy put him first in line to inherit throne as murderous dictator

Daily Mail  

The dramatic downfall of Syria's iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad marks an end to over 50 years of his family's brutal rule. Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad pose during a visit to the Great Wall of China at Badaling on June 22, 2004 For years Asma was the face of female liberation in the Middle East; with her successful …

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Opinion | Assad’s Syria Was Brutal. Will What Comes Next Be Better?
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Opinion | Assad’s Syria Was Brutal. Will What Comes Next Be Better?

New York Times  

It is hard not to rejoice while watching images of ecstatic Syrians toppling statues from the regime of the deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad and hearing the shouts of joy of prisoners, many of whom may have been tortured and starved, released from his dungeons. Mr. al-Assad’s Syria was brutal for the regime’s opponents, and 13 years of civil war and …

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Attacks on Syrian Refugees Reveal Türkiye’s Immigration Struggle
5 months, 1 week ago

Attacks on Syrian Refugees Reveal Türkiye’s Immigration Struggle

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 16, 2024 17:38 IST - 10 MINS READ The once bustling Melikgazi district in Türkiye’s Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, 346 km southeast of the capital Ankara, now bears the scars of charred homes, burnt stores, and overturned cars. According to Hamit, “Both countries are moving to launch anti-terrorist operations in Northern Syria and are opposed to …

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Iraq steps up repatriations from Islamic State camp in Syria, hoping to reduce militant threats
1 year, 3 months ago

Iraq steps up repatriations from Islamic State camp in Syria, hoping to reduce militant threats

Associated Press  

BAGHDAD — Iraq is stepping up repatriation of its citizens from a camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of people, mostly wives and children of Islamic State fighters but also supporters of the militant group. After U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led fighters defeated the Islamic State group in Syria in March 2019 — ending its self-proclaimed Islamic “caliphate” that had …

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Displaced Syrians forced to build hideouts in the caves of Jabal al-Zawiya
1 year, 3 months ago

Displaced Syrians forced to build hideouts in the caves of Jabal al-Zawiya

Al Jazeera  

The caves shelter Syrian families whose homes have been under attack as regime forces continue to hound Idlib. The 53-year-old father of four from the village of Kansafra south of Idlib brought everyone here to get away from continuous shelling by Syrian regime forces. Villages and towns in al-Zawiya in the Idlib countryside, close to the front lines with Syrian …

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The legacy of chemical attacks and other atrocities won’t give Syria peace
1 year, 4 months ago

The legacy of chemical attacks and other atrocities won’t give Syria peace

Al Jazeera  

Despite the normalisation efforts by Arab states, Syria will not be stabilised until there is justice and accountability. A year earlier, US President Barack Obama had declared the use of chemical weapons by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a “red line”. Yet, Bashar al-Assad’s regime continued to use chemical weapons against the Syrian people frequently, facing no significant …

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Fire breaks out at north Syria camp housing families linked to Islamic State group fighters
1 year, 4 months ago

Fire breaks out at north Syria camp housing families linked to Islamic State group fighters

Associated Press  

QAMISHLI, Syria — A fire broke out Wednesday in a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of mostly women and children linked to the Islamic State group causing material damage but no casualties, the camp’s director said. The Al-Hol Camp holds about 51,000 people, the vast majority of them women and children, including the wives, widows and …

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A US civil case gives us, Syrians, a glimmer of hope
1 year, 7 months ago

A US civil case gives us, Syrians, a glimmer of hope

Al Jazeera  

A new lawsuit against the Syrian regime filed in the US is an important step towards justice for Syria’s disappeared. It was an important moment, for not just me but all of us Syrians, whose loved ones have been forcibly disappeared by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, kept in arbitrary detention without charge, tortured and even killed. Although Syria has disappeared from …

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Syrians recount horror under Russian air attacks
2 years, 9 months ago

Syrians recount horror under Russian air attacks

Al Jazeera  

Al Jazeera talks to Syrians who endured Russian air strikes as Moscow tries to advance its invasion of Ukraine. “He is going to go full Aleppo on Ukraine now, isn’t he?” al-Khatib, having lived through the days when the Syrian city was under intense attack, asked in shock. Now, in Ukraine, reports have shown Russian forces also bombing civilian areas …

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Blinken at UN calls for opening of border crossings for Syria aid
3 years, 8 months ago

Blinken at UN calls for opening of border crossings for Syria aid

Al Jazeera  

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pleads for more access for UN aid to population of strife-torn Syria US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged the United Nations Security Council to reopen border crossings into Syria blocked by Russia, saying world powers should be ashamed by their inaction. And shame on us if we don’t.” United Nations relief supplies …

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Attacks on health care in Syria take ‘catastrophic’ toll: IRC
3 years, 9 months ago

Attacks on health care in Syria take ‘catastrophic’ toll: IRC

Al Jazeera  

International Rescue Committee report shows the devastating impact a decade of war has had on healthcare in Syria. Hospitals razed Government-led offensives have pushed back what remained of opposition groups, they are now confined to Idlib province – an overcrowded enclave in the country’s northwestern region, Idlib, which was dubbed a “dumping ground” for evacuees who fled government offensives in …

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