The funeral of four Syrian-Palestinians who died in the Yarmouk Camp in Damascus from starvation, caused by a months-long siege imposed by the Syrian army.
Read more →“Never cross the official red line.” This is the the unwritten principle regulating Iranian media inside Iran in anything related to the country’s foreign policy. And Iran’s role in Syria (and in Lebanon) is certainly one of the most sensitive of these red lines. For how else […]
Read more →After its establishment in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted an anti-American foreign policy that led, among other things, to the seizure of the US embassy in Iran and the subsequent US military operation known as the Tabas attack. The Islamic Republic then found itself in […]
Read more →Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian general who invented the Kalashnikov in 1974, has died. But his legacy lives on, certainly in Syria. For the popular automatic rifle, also known as AK-74, features on the flags of Hezbollah Lebanon and Sepah Pasdaran, both of which are fighting alongside the […]
Read more →A new investigation by Reuters reveals that millions of barrels of Iraqi crude oil have been delivered this year, under the radar, to the Syrian government through Lebanese and Egyptian trading companies, on board Iranian ships. The investigation, based on an examination of previously undisclosed shipping and […]
Read more →An ill, 73-old Syrian woman in a heart-breaking interview: We are living… no one can live like this. We are living a very difficult life – no sleep, no food, no water, no medicine, no money… we live on begging. We hadn’t seen anything like this before… […]
Read more →One of many moving photographs taken by a young Syrian photographer who died on Friday while documenting the battle over the Kindi hospital in Aleppo between rebels and regime forces. Molhem Barakat had been taking pictures for Reuters on a freelance basis. See more of Barakat’s pictures […]
Read more →Amnesty International has published a briefing on the “torture, flogging and summary killings … in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS)”, an armed group linked to Al-Qaeda that controls some areas in northern Syria. Amnesty identifies seven detention facilities used by […]
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