Femme & non-binary of colour in exile. She/they. Survivor of Assad detention. Winner of Front Line Defenders Award. PhDing queer oral history of the Syrian war.
From their numerous “observation posts” dotted across northern #Syria, Turkish troops watch idly as #Assad and Russia butcher and displace thousands of civilians. Why are they there at all?
From their numerous “observation posts” dotted across northern #Syria, Turkish troops watch idly as #Assad & #Russia butcher & displace thousands of civilians. Why are they there at all? asks
“The manner in which (Jamil al-Sayyed) was imposed on parliament suggests he’s been tasked with serving the #Assad regime’s interests at the operational level, so to speak, while #Hezbollah serves those interests at the strategic level. #Lebanon
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#Lebanon's new cabinet seeks to quash the popular uprising by force, but bullets and tear gas won't save it from the economic ruin facing the country, analysts tell Al-Jumhuriya.
https://aljumhuriya.net/en/content/lebanon%E2%80%99s-new-government-can%E2%80%99t-shoot-its-problems-away…
#Lebanon's new cabinet seeks to quash the popular uprising by force, but bullets and tear gas won't save it from the economic ruin facing the country, analysts tell Al-Jumhuriya.
"In our generation, there was only one disappearer—the #Assad regime—whereas today the disappearers have multiplied: we have the regime; its militias; ISIS; Jaysh al-Islam; and many others. It’s said there are now 98,000 disappeared Syrians."
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In his fourteenth letter to his missing wife Samira al-Khalil abducted in #Douma 2013 Yassin al-Haj Saleh @YassinHSaleh writes he now identifies with his late mother paying tribute to mothers around the world who bear the anguish of disappeared loved ones
https://aljumhuriya.net/en/content/letters-samira-14…
Banned in over 100 states, cluster munitions have been used systematically by the #Assad regime and its #Russian ally to kill hundreds of #Syrian civilians—most recently a group of schoolchildren