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Small steps toward justice in Syria

By  Patricia Karam (The Hill)- After nearly a decade of war, Syrians have endured more than 500,000 deaths, over 200 chemical attacks, 12 million displacements, and nearly 130,000 recorded disappearances. Although the Assad regime’s stranglehold on the state persists, small...

'One team': disabled duo help each other in war-torn Syria

One is deaf and mute, the other is paralysed from the waist down; but together, Ahmad and Bader form a duo equipped to handle life in war-torn Syria. In an ancient Damascus alley, Ahmad pushes Bader along in a wheelchair on one of their near-daily strolls. The two friends have known...

Assad govt imposes penalties on trading subsidised staples

  The Syrian government issued new decisions regarding subsidised food staples and commodities, after widespread anger among loyalists about the circulation of these material in the market through officials and powerful people in the regime. The Ministry of Domestic Trade and...

Report: Ex-Syria PM worked with Israel as a UK-France spy

A former Syrian prime minister was a double agent who worked with Britain, France and Israel, a report published by Haaretz claims to have revealed for the first time. Jamil Mardam, who served as prime minister of Syria in the late 1930s and mid-1940s, was reportedly working with the...