Syria’s top diplomat and long-time foreign minister Walid al-Moalem, a staunch defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters that sparked a decade old conflict, died on Monday, the government said. There were no details on the cause of death,...
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 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...
Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine. He was so confident that Lebanon was the right place to be that he gave up his American residence green card. Fourteen years later he is leaving his homeland with his...
