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Daily Monitor Monday May 03 2021 In this file photo taken on April 22, 2016, members of the Syrian interior opposition Mahmoud Marei (2nd L) listens to Elian Mousaad during a meeting with the UN Envoy during Syria peace talks at the United Nations office in Geneva. A Syrian former minister and a member of the Damascus-tolerated opposition will face Bashar al-Assad in this month's presidential election, the constitutional court said. PHOTO/AFP Summary The Assad-appointed body approved only three out of 51 applications to stand in the May 26 ballot, among them the 55-year-old president himself,...

At what point does real, when tangled with embellishment, become fiction? What is truth when viewed by different people or seen from a different angle? History itself may be scoffed at, or viewed in another way if it had been written by the defeated, repressed, or vanquished. When it comes to truth and reality, and fabrication and fiction, there is often a very thin line between the two. In this collection we feature novels that are based on real events, or contain real people. The novels mentioned here may be ever so loosely based on reality, have a simple flutter-by of a real person, or cou...

A decade of war in Syria killed over 388,000- Monitor Sunday March 14 2021 A pigeon belonging to Abdulhamid Hana, a 50-year-old Syrian pigeon keeper, flies over a damaged home in war-torn Syria's east central city of Raqa on March 13, 2021.PHOTO/SFP. Summary Today the Damascus government controls more than 60 percent of Syria after a string of Russia-backed victories against jihadists and rebels since 2015. Advertisement The overall death toll for Syria's civil war has reached 388,652 since it began a decade ago this month, a war monitor said on Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory fo...

The war-torn families of Syria’s war Seham Hamu helps raise grandchildren and other relatives after the death of her husband, son and a granddaughter, which she says was ‘God’s will’ 13 March 2021 - 07:32 Firas Makdesi Seham Hamu, a grandmother, sits on a wheelchair next to her grandchildren in Douma, in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, Syria, on March 9 2021. Picture: REUTERS/OMAR SANADIKI Douma — Seham Hamu lost her husband, son and granddaughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home in Douma, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital t...

Over 16 million people in war-torn Yemen to go hungry this year: UN A UN humanitarian agency has warned that more than 16 million people in Yemen would go hungry this year as Saudi war and siege continue to take heavy toll on the impoverished nation.