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First pharmaceutical factory opens in Syrian opposition area The first pharmaceutical factory in the opposition-controlled areas in northwestern Syria was inaugurated, in a bid to address the lack of medicines and high prices. An employee of a Syrian pharmaceutical factory shows packs of the hydroxychloroquine drug in the government-controlled city of Homs, Syria, April 28, 2020. April 8, 2021 ALEPPO, Syria — The Sharan subdistrict of Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo opened March 30 the first pharmaceutical factory in the areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in northw...

In a nearby town, a woman with a son suffering from kidney failure makes her  children take turns eating on alternate days. In a village outside Aleppo in northern Syria, people say they are living mainly on wild greens. Aid workers say that Syrian refugee children are arriving in northern Lebanon thin and stunted, and that suspected malnutrition cases are surfacing from rebel-held areas in northern Syria to government-held suburbs south of Damascus. A boy, at a Syrian refugee camp near the border with Turkey, waiting in line for a hot meal, looked inside a tent at stacks of bread. Millions...

ACLED Regional Overview – Middle East (27 March-2 April 2021) Format Last week in the Middle East, intense fighting was reported in Yemen’s Marib and Hodeidah governorates, whereas clashes decreased in Taizz and Hajjah. Meanwhile, Houthi forces claim to have targeted Saudi Arabia with four drones. In Bahrain, demonstrations spiked over concerns for prisoners amid an outbreak of the coronavirus at Jaw prison. In Syria, a large scale security operation was launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces (QSD) in Al Hasakeh. Elsewhere, convoys contracted by the US-led Coalition forces were attacked...

Questions about BBC producer's ties to UK intelligence follow 'Mayday' White Helmets whitewash Published: April 8, 2021 The BBC’s Chloe Hadjimatheou produced a podcast serial designed to rehabilitate the White Helmets’ late, scandal-stained founder, while blaming critics for his demise. Was she a channel for a wider British intelligence operation? White Helmets founder James Le Mesurier falling to his death from the top floor of his Istanbul home in uncertain circumstances in November 2019 created a myriad of extremely serious problems for a great many powerful people. At the time, the Wh...

US President Biden shines harsh spotlight on Uganda April 7, 2021 An injured protestor US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was blunt and plain-spoken in his unflattering assessment of Uganda’s poor human rights record when he delivered on-camera remarks recently while presiding at the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Uganda’s grades on human rights took a battering before, during and in the immediate aftermath of 2020/2021 election campaign period that put on public display the army and police’s use of highh...