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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File. | Photo Credit: AP Hasina involved in forced disappearances, says Bangladesh inquiry commission In a new turn of events, the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance set up by the interim government of Bangladesh filed a report on Saturday (December 14, 2024) stating that it found the “involvement of…
Syrian children play next to a destroyed residential building at Hanano neighbourhood in the city of Aleppo, Syria. | Photo Credit: AP Top diplomats from the United States, the Arab League and Turkey met in Jordan on Saturday to discuss how to assist Syria ’s transition after the fall of Bashar Assad’s government a week…
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A torn posters shows the late Syrian President Hafez Assad and his son the ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad, that were set at the entrance of the notorious security detention centre called Palestine Branch, in Damascus, Syria, on December 14, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The story so far:Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria for 24…
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A worker tears down the pictures of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Lebanon’s late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a gas station in Nubl, a Shi’ite village seized by rebels, in rural Aleppo, Syria, December 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The head of…
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Syria’s Islamist militant leader on Tuesday (December 10, 2024) vowed to pursue former senior government officials responsible for torture and war crimes, a day after he began talks on the transfer of power following President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. Mr. Assad fled Syria as the Islamist-led opposition alliance swept into the capital Damascus, bringing a spectacular…
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People celebrate next to a sculpture of Sultan Pasha al-Atrash, a Druze warrior who led a revolt against French rule in 1925, after Syrian rebels announced that they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on Monday (December 9, 2024). | Photo Credit: Reuters Syria’s Prime…
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was on Sunday forced to flee the country after rebels seized the capital Damascus, ending his 24-year rule. As the news broke about the rebels entering Damascus, speculation grew about the whereabouts of the 59-year-old leader, who had for years taken help from his allies like Russia, Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah…
Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, leader of insurgency that toppled Syria’s Assad? Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria’s President Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al-Qaida and depicting himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance. As he entered Damascus behind…
Israeli soldiers walk near armored vehicles parked along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria, on December 8, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (December 8, 2024) he had ordered the Israeli military to “seize” a demilitarised buffer zone on the border with…
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New Delhi: Syria’s future hinges on uncertainty after the abrupt fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Once thought unassailable, Assad’s rule collapsed under the pressure of a rapid offensive led by a group called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly known as the Al-Nusra Front affiliated with terror group Al-Qaeda, and allied factions. Bashar al-Assad came…