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3 minute read RSF’s Turkey representative Erol Önderoglu (C) and physician Sebnem Korur Fincanci (L) speak to the press in front of the courthouse, Istanbul, Turkey, 3 February 2021, OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images At least ten journalists will be in court on terrorism charges in the next few weeks, including IFEX member and RSF Turkey representative Erol Önderoglu. This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 2 April 2021. At least ten journalists, including the...

Islamic State group abducts 19 in Syria: monitor Nearly two dozen people were abducted [Getty] Date of publication: 6 April, 2021 Share this page: The Islamic State group on Tuesday abducted 19 people, mostly civilians, in the centre of war-torn Syria, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The jihadists attacked regime forces in the Badia desert, before kidnapping eight policemen and 11 civilians from a small...

North Idleb, Syria General Description of the Programme: GOAL an International Humanitarian Organisation has had a presence in Turkey since 2013 and has been contributing to the migrant response since 2016 with a focus on responding to needs in health service delivery, social safety nets and the protection of vulnerable and marginalised migrants in southern Turkey. GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL is working in Idleb...

Tuesday, 6 April, 2021 - 11:30 Construction of Units 3 and 4 are in the final stages. WAM Asharq Al-Awsat The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) announced on Tuesday that the Unit 1 of Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has started commercial operations. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces hailed the achievement, describing it as a significant milestone...

Trendy restaurants pop up in Syria’s Aleppo Restaurants are opening at a high speed in opposition-held areas in the Aleppo countryside, making it tempting for capital owners to invest in this relatively safe service sector. A man grills skewers outside a local restaurant along a market street in Ariha in the southern countryside of Syrias Idlib province before sunset during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan on May 15, 2020, as people who had fled advancing government forces month...

Illustration by Tawfiq Dawi BEIRUT — M. had not slept for two months when she reached out to Jouhaina Mouslem asking for psychological help. “This woman was devastated, collapsed,” recalled Mouslem, a psychologist originally from Aleppo and currently active in the mental health programs of the ‘Women Now’ NGO in Lebanon.  M. had been detained in a Syrian regime prison. After being released, her husband left her, so she fled to Lebanon, leaving her two children in Syria. M. remarried ...

April 6, 2021Updated 12:36 p.m. ET IDLIB, Syria — Among the millions of Syrians who fled as the government bombed their towns, destroyed their homes and killed their loved ones are 150 families squatting in a soccer stadium in the northwestern city of Idlib, sheltering in rickety tents under the stands or in the rocky courtyard. Work is scarce and terror grips them whenever jets buzz overhead: New airstrikes could come at any time. But the fear of government retribution keeps them from return...

Like being in Assad’s prisons: Female survivors recall their ordeals in HTS cells January 7, 2021 Two women participate in a demonstration in Idlib province for the elimination of violence against women, 12/5/2020 (Idlib Media Center) AMMAN — After almost three months in detention by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), media activist and humanitarian worker Nour al-Shalo was released on Monday. However, the discourse around al-Shalo’s case and the presentation of insufficient evidence for the cha...

Haian Dukhan is a Carnegie postdoctoral fellow at the Central European University’s Centre for Religious Studies. He is the author of "State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns" (Routledge, 2019). Dukhan is a contributor to Fikra Forum. Ammar Alhamad is an MA student in international relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University in Gaziantep, Turkey. He is from Raqqa and has worked for different international organizations on issues related to the Syrian conflict since 2013...

Reuters Global climate change and its impact on our planet is no more a cock and bull story or a conspiracy theory. It is a known fact that if global temperatures continue to rise and greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities keep rising at the current level, the earth will be uninhabitable. It is a fine balancing act for countries to pursue the development goals of today without derailing the prospects for the coming generations to have a healthy future. As a country that has unapo...