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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 protect farmers’ rights, but have become one more tool in the Syrian government’s systematic repressi...

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) – Syrian authorities are unlawfully confiscating the homes and lands of Syrians who fled Syrian-R...

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 some stories from the last 10 years is a tribute to them and to all those on every side who have su...

Iran's 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, Iran’s role has been overshadowed in the media, but on the ground, Iran continues to entrench i...

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 respondents said they would vote for al-Assad in the 2021 presidential elections. The media outlet, RIA-FAN...