Dealing with Assad’s toxic legacy, one secret chemical lab at a time
People in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus always thought something strange was happening at the nearby state security facility. Walled off and heavily guarded, the government compound was off limits ...
Has Assad Been Poisoned in Russia? What We Know
A Russian Telegram channel has claimed that Bashar al Assad may have been poisoned, sparking online speculation about the ...
Le Monde.fr1d
In the refugee camp of Yarmouk, the broken future of Syria's Palestinians
We quickly buried him on November 20, 2012, and never came back," said the old lady, her head covered in a white veil, her ...
HT Year-Ender: From bloodied Donald Trump to ‘All Eyes On Rafah’, viral images of 2024
A bleeding Donald Trump raising his fist in defiance minutes after narrowly avoiding assassination was arguably the image of ...
El País in English3d
On the Syrian border with Israel: ‘The troops threatened to do the same thing to us as in Gaza’
Residents of Syrian villages near the occupied Golan Heights, where the Israeli army has now advanced, report that the ...
The year 2024 in A to Z: From astronauts stuck in space to Zakir Hussain
As 2024 comes to an end, the year seems like a blur. In our roundup, we look back at the news and the newsmakers that shaped ...
The New Yorker4d
Syria Faces Its Past and Its Future
Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.
Now Syria’s long-ruling Baath party is collapsing, too
The party that for decades ruled as part of the Assad dynasty is now being blamed for damaging relations with other Arab ...
Relatives of Bashar Assad arrested as they tried to fly out of Lebanon, officials say
Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at ...