Lessons from Syria’s volatile past for its uncertain future
Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...
The New Yorker17d
Syria Faces Its Past and Its Future
After the collapse of the dictatorships in Iraq and in Libya, we found abundant proof of their brutality. But Assad seems to have been distinctly vicious. In 2012, as Syria descended into violence ...
Seattle Times19d
Syria’s New Government Steps Up Pursuit of Assad Loyalists
It said the campaign was launched only after loyalists of the former government ... an Islamic group that ruled over parts of northwestern Syria before Assad’s fall. Advertising Ahmad al-Sharaa ...
Foreign Affairs28d
Syria Still Has Chemical Weapons
Before 2013, Western intelligence services estimated that Syria had one of the largest chemical arsenals ... Whatever chemical weapons Assad held on to after 2013, or had produced since then, are now ...
Al-Monitor25d
Syria's new leader says all weapons to come under 'state control'
Two weeks after seizing power in a sweeping offensive ... Walid Jumblatt, long a fierce critic of Assad and his father Hafez who ruled Syria before him, arrived in Damascus on Sunday at the head of a ...
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Syria’s Football Revival: Rebuilding after conflict
Kwid remains optimistic, emphasizing the team’s unity and determination to rise above the challenges and represent Syria on ...