Latest in: Syria
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The indifferent players on the world stage not only turned a blind eye to the suffering of Syrians but...January 19, 2020
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President Donald Trump’s sudden withdrawal of American troops from Syria – a battlefield of ideologies, great power influence and...December 20, 2018
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Syrian journalist symbolizing hope for democracy silenced with bullets
As Syria crumbled with countless deaths and destruction, Raed Fares, one of the few remaining figures of the 2011 Syrian movement for democracy, survived several attempts on his life to live as a symbol of resistance...November 26, 2018 5345 0 -
U.S. should use military pressure toward a political solution to the Syrian conflict
The United States, Britain and France have launched coordinated military strikes against Bashar al Assad’s regime in Syria in reaction to the use of chemical weapons against civilians. President Donald Trump has described the actions as...April 14, 2018 1133 0 -
Trump orders strikes against Syrian regime
President Donald Trump on Friday said he has authorized targeted military strikes against Bashar al Assad’s regime after it reportedly used chemical weapons against civilians in a suburb of Syrian capital Damascus. Britain and France are...April 14, 2018 1057 0 -
U.S., Russia spar at UN over Syrian regime’s reported use of chemical weapons
A 2013 photo of destruction in Aleppo, Image credit: English: Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Wikimedia Commons Amid international tensions over reports that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in an attack in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region, the...April 10, 2018 926 0 -
Syria: Another year of world failure
A child standing in front of his ground-flattened school after a bombardment in Ainjara village in rural Aleppo, Syria. Photo: UNICEF/Khalil Alshawi EDITORIAL Another year of Syrian conflict – more devastation and more loss of human...March 10, 2018 986 0 -
UN vows to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes against Syrian civilians
A file photo shows a child standing in front of his ground-flattened school after a bombardment in Ainjara village in rural Aleppo, Syria. Photo: UNICEF/Khalil Alshawi As the Syrian forces continue to rain death and destruction...March 3, 2018 893 0 -
U.S. hints at long-term presence in Syria to defeat ISIS, counter Iran
A child standing in front of his ground-flattened school after a bombardment in Ainjara village in rural Aleppo, Syria. Photo: UNICEF/Khalil Alshawi The United States will maintain a long-term presence in Syria to defeat the ISIS...January 18, 2018 920 0