Exclusive drone footage reveals the extensive destruction in Zabadani, a city near Damascus, which endured heavy shelling from Bashar al-Assad’s forces during Syria’s war.
They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a religious shrine—are beginning to resemble a pattern of anti-Alawite acts.
The region was in store for more tumult. In 2003, the US invaded Iraq and a year later Syria’s Kurds in Qamishli were encouraged to revolt against the regime. Bashar responded to the unrest by ...
Now a father of two, he currently lives in Azaz, a city in northern Aleppo controlled by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA). He was not prepared for what he found when he returned to ...
The extent of the destruction in the still-rubble-littered ... this problem is affecting our daily lives." Bashar Assad, Syria’s leader for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia after anti-regime ...
In the face of these risks, military action alone—such as the hundreds of airstrikes that Israel has been conducting on Syria’s military infrastructure since the collapse of the Assad regime—is not a ...