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An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog has found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter carried out a 2018 chemical attack

English Analysis on Syrian Arab Republic about Protection and Human Rights; published on 12 Apr 2021 by OPCW

Syria Dropped Chemical Weapon Chlorine On Rebel Towns In 2018: Watchdog Syria Dropped Chemical Weapon Chlorine On Rebel Towns In 2018: Watchdog The report is the second by an investigations team set up by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has the new power to apportion blame for attacks. Use of any chemical substance in armed conflict is banned under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention The Hague: The Syrian regimes air force used the chemical weapon chlorine ...

Posted by Scott Lucas | Apr 10, 2021 | A pistachio farmer tends to his orchard in Maan, Hama Province, Syria (AFP) The Assad regime is stealing the homes and farmlands of displaced Syrians, according to report by Human Rights Watch and the Syrian Network for Human Rights. The rights organization summarizes that a pro-regime militia and regime-controlled “Peasants’ Unions” are seizing and auctioning lands to regime supporters. In its 20-page report, the SNHR assessed that at least 440,000...

Human Rights Watch are unlawfully confiscating the homes and lands of Syrians who fled Syrian-Russian military attacks in Idlib and Hama governorates, Human Rights Watch said today. A pro-government militia and the government-controlled “Peasants’ Unions” were involved in seizing and auctioning these lands to government supporters. “Peasants’ Unions are supposed to help protect farmers’ rights, but have become one more tool in the Syrian government’s systematic repression of its ...

Syria: Government Stealing Opponents’ Land Format Over 20 hectares taken from displaced persons (Beirut) – Syrian authorities are unlawfully confiscating the homes and lands of Syrians who fled Syrian-Russian military attacks in Idlib and Hama governorates, Human Rights Watch said today. A pro-government militia and the government-controlled “Peasants’ Unions” were involved in seizing and auctioning these lands to government supporters. “Peasants’ Unions are supposed to help prote...

Over 20 hectares taken from displaced persons Syrian farmers harvest olives in Idlib, Syria on November 21, 2020. Despite the negative effects of fertilization, tree pruning and transportation costs as well as the increase in fuel prices, farmers started to harvest olives, their main source of their income. The land pictured is not representative of the cases investigated by Human Rights Watch. © 2020 Muhammed Abdullah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Beirut)...

Editor, Channel 4 News Over the ten years of the Syrian war, Channel 4 News has covered the different flashpoints and battles of the shifting conflict and broadcast extraordinary footage and accounts thanks to the many Syrians who have bravely filmed and told the story of the destruction of their country. These films won three International Emmys, countless other awards and even producing with Channel 4 a Cannes-winning and Oscar-nominated film “For Sama”. This collection of pieces telling...

Irans long game in Syria Topics Insight Iran has managed to entrench itself in Syria and is fast becoming an immovable force in the country. Since the outbreak of the war in Syria, Iran has been the most important supporter of the Assad regime. The Iranian military, financial and political aid to Damascus was crucial to prevent the fall of the regime. For five years, Iran managed to keep Assad alive, and only in 2015, the Assad regime felt the need for direct Russian intervention.  Since then,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad visit an Orthodox Christian church in Damascus, Syria on January 7, 2020 [Sputnik via Reuters/Alexei Druzhinin] In April, a series of articles were published by a Russian media outlet criticising Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the corruption of his regime. One of them referred to a poll – supposedly conducted by the Foundation for Protection of National Values in Syria – in which only 32 percent of the respond...