October 7 was a tragic event, as is everything that led to it and everything that has transpired since. On this day, I take the opportunity to condem all Isreal's genocide, military occupation, settler violence, displacement of Indigenous populations, and ethnic cleansing.
Within two weeks #Trump signs over the Golan Hights to Isreal and appoint an envoy to annex #Greenland. This monster is out of control.
Nothing mmch changed! cbc.ca/news/world/us-syria-i…
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Anna Baerbock walks through the ruins of Damascus in shock, perhaps thinking, this is what Berlin looked like after WWII. The contrast: Berlin was rebuilt with aid and investment through the Marshall Plan, while Damascus remains under sanctions, left to wither in its destruction.
The “Sapphire Network” generated no less than 247 million USD in deposits from 27,000 victims.
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This idiot does not know the difference between the BBC and the BBC media action. This is a nonprofit that supports social causes! Ignorant!
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Bashar al Assad shook hands and had a pretty blonde wife. He also slaughtered half a million Syrians. The debate about handshakes is tedious, ignorant, superficial. Focus on how/whether Sharaa and co apply governance, rule of law and build an inclusive state, handshake or not.
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The obsession with al-Sharaa not shaking the hand of a female diplomat is misplaced because even if we don't like it, get it, or agree, it's his personal decision.
You know what you should care about? Any decision his govt takes imposing one way of doing things on other people.
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انطلاق مهرجان التحرير في ساحة العاصي بمدينة #حماة احتفالا بانتصار الثورة السورية
#سوريا #التلفزيون_العربي
My take on the most pressing challenges #Syria has to deal with post-#AssadRegime.
iwpr.net/global-voices/syria…
I left #Syria 13 years ago and was never able to go back. Before December 8, I was resigned to the idea that I will never be able to go. Now, I am hopeful that I will soon.
دخلت مدينتها بعد 14 عاما من الإبعاد والتهجير.. مذيعة التلفزيون العربي ديما عز الدين من قلب العاصمة السورية #دمشق
@dimaizzedin
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A moment that will be captured in the history books.
Saydnaya personifies the terror of the Syrian regime. Known as the "human slaughterhouse," it was site to the secret executions of 13,000 people in a single 5 year period & continued to hold thousands of unjustly detained.
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My advice to journos covering Syria: this is a complex story to tell with a criminal regime, bad actors, foreign influence & uncertainty of what's to come. Tell complex stories, but center your stories in the agency of Syrians. It's their story, their country, their freedom.
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Syrian social capital is once again stepping up to prevent bloodshed. In the #Christian Valley (Wadi Al Nasara), west of Homs, civic peace efforts have led to an agreement to expel armed militias from the area. As a result, the leader of the largest loyalist group in the region left the valley with his armed thugs. Ongoing efforts are underway to convince others to follow suit. Civic and religious leaders are playing a pivotal role, leveraging their historic ties across Syrian society. These deep-rooted relationships between communities, faiths, and sects in Syria far predate any regime. #Syria #CivicPeace
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Syrians never gave up.
After 13+ years of #Assad’s “burn the country” campaign, they never gave up.
No matter how many governments & commentators told them it was over & they needed to “accept reality,” they never gave up.
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A Syrian man recognised a picture of his father, detained for 40 years under the Hafez al-Assad regime, among those prisoners released today following the liberation of Hama city. #Syria
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The mood in Damascus is tense. Shops are deserted except for grocery stores, where people are rushing to stock up. A drone was just shot over the city but it's not clear where it came from.
Damascus is surrounded by elite army units, including the 4th Division, the most equipped, trained, and combat-ready formation of the Syrian Arab Army -led by Assad's brother, Maher- and the Republican Guard, tasked with defending the president himself and key institutions.
The city is also saturated with Mukhabarat (secret police) with notorious branches distributed across most neighborhoods.
Iranian-backed militias, including fighters from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, are also stationed around the city and in some of its southern neighborhoods.
Many people feel all scenarios are possible, the ones they can imagine and those they can't, and they don't know what to hope for.