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Assad votes in former rebel town Published: 9:55 PM, May 26, 2021 President Bashar al Assad and his wife Asma greet supporters after casting their votes in the countrys presidential elections at a polling station, in Douma, on Wednesday. — Reuters SHARE AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad voted on Wednesday in an election certain to extend his rule over a country ruined by war, casting his ballot in the former rebel stronghold of Douma where a sus...

From the blog of Allan Wolman at The Times of Israel

A successful US strategy in Syria must focus on hearts and minds of Syrian youth May 19, 2021 Share In early April, the U.S. director of national intelligence released an unclassified report detailing global threats to the national security of the United States. The report noted that while Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continues to control the core of Syria, he will struggle to reestablish control over the entire country and will boycott ongoing negotiations with the West, particularly...

Israel-Palestinian conflict: False and misleading claims fact-checked By BBC Monitoring Weve investigated examples of misinformation from both sides that have provoked intense debate on social media. Video of rocket fire is from Syria, not Gaza image copyrightYOUTUBE image captionThis footage is actually video of fighting in Syria A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a video on Twitter which he claimed showed Hamas firing rockets at Israel "from populated areas"....

If only to avoid far worse outcomes, Washington should reject Assad’s bogus “reelection” and keep supporting Israeli strikes, the SDF’s viability, and refugee aid.

Years after initial human rights violations in 2013 and 2017 respectively, lawyers from four non-governmental organizations are filing a criminal complaint to the Swedish police regarding the chemical weapons attacks on Syrian civilians. The Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Civil Rights Defenders, Syrian Archive (SA), and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) are specifically pointing towards the use of sarin gas in Ghouta in 2013 and Khan Sheikhoun in the Idlib pro...

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World April 16, 2021 MADRID: Before arriving in Madrid, Muhammed, Ayham, Okba and Moussa honed their skills as journalists during Syria’s bloody civil war and now they have opened Spain’s first refugee-led digital magazine. Launched on April 7, Baynana is an innovative online ‘magazine’ whose Arabic name means "Between us". All four are originally from the southern Syrian city of Deraa, birthplace of the 2011 revolt against President Bashar al-Assad that sparked the war.

Taliban, Assad continue to unite Russia, Iran While Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed ways to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal in his visit to Tehran this week, the topics of Syria and Afghanistan also featured prominently on the agenda.  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Moscow on Dec. 30, 2019. The two met again in Tehran, Iran, on April 13, 2021. April 16, 2021 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov paid ...

Syria reporters start Spains first refugee-led news site AFP 2 hrs ago © JAVIER SORIANO The founders of Baynana, the first refugee-led digital magazine in Spain Before arriving in Madrid, Muhammed, Ayham, Okba and Moussa honed their skills as journalists during Syrias bloody civil war and now they have opened Spains first refugee-led digital magazine.  Launched on April 7, Baynana is an innovative online magazine whose Arabic name means "Between us".  All four are originally from the sou...