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As Turkish-linked commanders with dubious human rights records are commissioned as officers and appointed to top military ...
The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve ...
Alessandra Bajec is a freelance journalist specializing in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in The New Arab, Al Jazeera English and The New Humanitarian, among other places.
The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve justice for victims and promote long-term stability, human rights advocate ...
PARIS — Twelve years after the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, official opposition institutions remain dependent, not only politically and militarily, but in the provision of services. The Syrian ...
Tens of thousands of the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon have settled in the country’s 12 official Palestinian refugee camps, which were set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for ...
PARIS, IDLIB — The land, 60 dunums in al-Judayda, a Christian village in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, was everything to Julian’s family. From season to season, it sustained them, until Hayat ...
DAMASCUS/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the ...
QAMISHLI — Wrapped in a colorful veil, Ghalia bustles about the courtyard of her house in the village of Himo, on the outskirts of the city of Qamishli in northern Syria, holding a near-empty bucket ...
PARIS — Local forces affiliated with the Damascus government’s General Security Directorate were killed and injured in an ambush in western Suwayda on Tuesday, in the latest outburst of violence as a ...
PARIS — The case against a controversial commander—Muhammad al-Jassim, also known as Abu Amsha—in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) accused of human rights violations and abuses appears to ...
PARIS/IDLIB — “Every moment, we dream of returning home. We hope our stay in the camp will be temporary, not permanent,” Mazen al-Wared began. When he first arrived in this displacement camp 11 years ...