Bajo el régimen del dictador sirio, las esposas y los hijos de los rebeldes eran apresados para ser usados como palanca de negociación.
Under the Syrian dictator’s rule, the wives and children of rebels were seized as leverage. Some are now speaking about their trauma.
Prosecutors say a Syrian security official accused of torture hid in plain sight in Europe for years, protected by Israeli and Austrian intelligence agents.
Large parts of Syria were once overrun by the terrorist group Islamic State. The country’s new government has just committed to a global effort to fight the group.
The Damascus museum theft set off an official investigation in what may be one of Syria’s largest losses of antiquities in recent years.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara’s meeting with President Trump in Washington signifies a new turn for al-Shara, a former Islamist rebel leader who was once designated by the United States as a terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head. Our reporter Christina Goldbaum describes the meeting.
The visit by President Ahmed al-Shara is another step in the transformation of the former rebel leader once wanted by the United States as a terrorist.
In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of the terror group Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will meet Mr. Trump in the White House.
The decision comes days before the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Shara, is expected in Washington for the first time since he came to power.
The president, Ahmed al-Shara, was until recently wanted by the United States as a terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head.
More than 400,000 Syrians have been displaced in the year since the civil war ended, according to the United Nations, driven by a mix of sectarian violence, acts of revenge and property disputes.
Tras la caída del régimen de Bashar al Asad, el nuevo gobierno sirio prometió proteger a las minorías religiosas del país. Diez meses después, el constante derramamiento de sangre dice lo contrario.
Ten months after rebels toppled the long-entrenched Assad regime, little-checked bloodshed has led many Syrians to abandon hope that the years of brutality may be over.
Soaring needs and wealthy countries’ focus on Ukraine have left aid agencies with too little money to address the world’s other crises, forcing them to cut programs.