This is Beirut, 18/02 15:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Homs Syria War Bashar al-Assad
Once dubbed the capital of the revolution against Bashar al-Assad, Homs saw some of the fiercest fighting in Syria's civil war. Now, displaced people are returning to their neighborhoods, only to find them in ruins.
This is Beirut, 06/02 23:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Syrian whistleblower, who smuggled tens of thousands of pictures depicting torture under Bashar al-Assad, on Thursday revealed his identity for the first time, two months after the longtime ruler was toppled. "I am First Lieutenant Farid al-Madhan, the (former) head of the forensic evidence department at the military police in Damascus, known ...
This is Beirut, 06/02 16:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Bashar al-Assad United Nations
A United Nations commission said Thursday it had documented the systematic destruction and pillaging of displaced people's property during Syria's war, warning of demographic change nearly two months after Bashar al-Assad's ouster. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Syria has documented "pillages of such large scale that ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 18:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Bashar al-Assad Syria Atif Najib
Syria's new authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, accused of orchestrating a crackdown in Daraa, where the 2011 uprising began. Atif Najib, the former head of political security in Daraa in southern Syria, was arrested in Latakia, on the country's west coast, the official SANA news agency ...
This is Beirut, 01/01 22:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Syria Bashar al-Assad Human rights
A few dozen protesters gathered in the Syrian city of Douma on Wednesday, demanding answers about the fate of four prominent activists abducted more than a decade ago. Holding up photographs of the missing activists, the demonstrators called on Syria's new rulers -- the Islamist-led rebels who seized power last month -- to investigate what ...
This is Beirut, 01/01 18:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The war in Syria has claimed more than 528,500 lives, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Wednesday, marking nearly 14 years of a devastating conflict triggered by the regime of Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising. Assad was overthrown on December 8 2024. More than 181,939 civilians are among ...
This is Beirut, 01/01 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
HTS Syria Bashar al-Assad Freedom of expression
Syria's minister of information in the country's transitional government told AFP he is working towards a free press and committed to "freedom of expression" after decades of tight control under the country's former rulers. "We are working to consolidate freedoms of the press and expression that were severely restricted" in areas controlled by ...
This is Beirut, 01/01 11:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Syria Damascus Bashar al-Assad New Year
Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with hope following 13 years of civil war. Gunshots rang out from Mount Qasioun overlooking the capital, where hundreds of people gazed up at fireworks, an AFP reporter at the square saw. It was the first new year's celebration ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 21:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Damascus Syria Protest Bashar al-Assad
A silent crowd gathered in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Friday to press the new authorities about the fate of relatives who went missing under Bashar al-Assad and to demand justice for their loved ones. The fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared under Assad, who was ousted on December 8 by a coalition of Islamist-led rebels, is a ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-26 20:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Syria Bashar al-Assad Saydnaya Prison
Syria's new authorities have arrested a military justice official who under ousted president Bashar al-Assad issued death sentences for detainees in the notorious Saydnaya prison, a war monitor said Thursday. The confirmation by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights of his detention came a day after deadly clashes erupted in the coastal ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-25 16:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A key Syrian rescue group and an activist told AFP on Wednesday a burial site outside Damascus was likely a mass grave for detainees held under former president Bashar al-Assad and fighters killed in the civil war. In a vast walled area located near the Baghdad Bridge, some 35 kilometres (22 miles) from the capital, AFP journalists visiting the ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 22:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Bashar al-Assad Human Rights Watch Amnesty International ADMSP
Three rights group on Monday appealed to Syria's new rulers to urgently preserve evidence of atrocities committed under former president Bashar al-Assad. Such evidence -- including government and intelligence documents as well as mass graves -- will be essential for establishing the fate of tens of thousands of people forcibly disappeared, ...