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Regular shelling from all sides has made it too dangerous for students to go to school in the Syrian city of Aleppo, so a group of volunteer teachers decided to open their own.

Syrians have suffered years of hardship from regime bombings and assaults. Aid and food have also been another weapon used by Russia and the regime against opposition areas, but NGOs and legal experts argue there are alternatives.

BY: lazyllama, Adobe Stock On 08/12/2021, the British Treasury delisted the Syrian businessman, Tarif Akhras, from its sanctions list, which targets money laundering or people who support Bashar al-Assad regime, without explaining the grounds for this decision.   The signatories of this statement consider that the decision of the British…

Last month marked 10 years since the beginning of the Syrian uprising when peaceful protesters, galvanised by the Arab Spring, went out on to the streets demanding freedom from an authoritarian regime and were met with bullets. President Bashar al-Assad vowed to crush dissent. In doing so, he set in motion a proxy war, creating what the UN’s human rights chief has called the “worst man-made disaster the world has seen since World War II”. Countless studies have shown that women and girls ...

Design: Bronte Dow Photo: Mondalawy/Wikimedia Commons Ten years ago, a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, threatening not only local monarchs and dictators but the strategic interests of the Western powers that backed them. In this series, David Wearing looks back on these events, their causes and consequences, and asks what they can teach us about the nature of imperialism in the twenty-first century. – In a small, beleaguered pocket of north-western Syria, the aspira...

We wont give up’: new generation of activists keep Syrias revolution alive Sarah Kassem: ‘My generation is still carrying the same hopes for justice and freedom.’ Photograph: Mohamed Haj Mustafa Sarah Kassem: ‘My generation is still carrying the same hopes for justice and freedom.’ Photograph: Mohamed Haj Mustafa In the few areas not retaken by Assad’s forces, people gather to reiterate the same demands protesters made a decade ago Mon 15 Mar 2021 01.00 EDT Last ...

A Joint Statement on the Decisions of Some European Countries Threatening the Principle of Non-refoulement of Refugees Changes to asylum policies in several European countries may pave the way for a violation of the principle of non-refoulement and the First Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights Since the end of 2019, we have witnessed clear changes in the policies of several European countries regarding asylum and especially the reception of Syrian refugees. The reasons for the c...