Syrian Youth Gang Member With 200 Crimes Finally Arrested in Germany After Turning 14

A 14-year-old Syrian boy accused of committing around 200 crimes has been arrested in northern Germany after years of violent offenses that terrorized towns in Schleswig-Holstein. Known to police as Mohamad H., the teenager was taken into custody...

Notes On Liberation: Queer Activism Against War, Genocide And Imperialism

In an age marked by wars, geopolitical and social, as well as personal, queer bodies are often left most vulnerable to an onslaught of social, physical and psychological brutality. For long, war has been defined through a geopolitical parlance,...

Global perspective: Concerns spread over Israel's control of Gaza

Palestinians walk trough the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Gaza City, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) By Keiko Sakai, Chiba University Professor Two years into the war in Gaza, the Palestinian...

Makeshift Oil Refineries Spread “Toxins” in Deir Ezzor in Syria

Deir Ezzor – Obadah al-Sheikh Residents of rural Deir Ezzor (eastern Syria) live a daily struggle with the “primitive oil refineries” that have been spewing toxic fumes for years. Since oil wells slipped out of the control of the former Syrian...

Ortagus Briefed on Hezbollah Activities in Lebanon during Israel Visit

Ammon News - US envoy to Lebanon and Israel Morgan Ortagus was briefed on Sunday on Hezbollah’s activities and attempts to rebuild its military infrastructure in Lebanon. During a visit to Israel, she was also briefed on the army’s defensive and...

What is now known about Catherine Connolly's trip to Syria?

In June 2018, Catherine Connolly travelled to Syria as part of a group which included fellow TDs Maureen O’Sullivan, Mick Wallace, and Clare Daly. Throughout her campaign, Ms Connolly has consistently described the visit as a "fact-finding...

The Human Rights Ground Rules for Normalization of Syria-Russia Relations

Available in: Fadel Abdulghany Normalization of the relations between Syria and Russia after years of the unlawful Russian military intervention in Syria represents unprecedented challenges for international law and transitional justice. Since...

The terrorist who took over Damascus

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, returning to Damascus as a small child. In 1967, his grandfather was forcibly displaced from Fiq, then a small town in the Golan Heights in south-western Syria. The latter part of...

Exclusive: Syria’s Kurdish Region’s Ongoing Conflict with an Extremist Regime

Qamishli, the largest city in Rojava, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), Syria. Photo by Antonio Graceffo. When you cross the border from Iraqi Kurdistan into the Kurdish autonomous region of Syria, called Rojava, formally...

Catherine Connolly says meeting militia leader linked to war crimes ‘didn’t take from’ trip to Syria

On a visit to Kerry, the presidential candidate said the focus of the trip was to learn about the challenges faced by Palestinian refugees Ms Connolly and an Irish delegation, which included Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, visited a Palestinian...

How Assad's Syria moved the bodies of its victims

Under Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian government operation to move bodies to mass graves was so massive that truckers, including those carrying ice cream, meat and produce, were forced to hand over their vehicles and get their hands dirty to keep the...

Syria Enters Global Tech Stage with GITEX Debut

Dubai — The Syrian Pavilion will make its first appearance at GITEX Expand North Star 2025, opening from 12 to 15 October, under the banner “Syria is Online.” This marks a milestone in Syria’s efforts to reconnect with the international innovation...

SHC orders report on animals’ health and living conditions at Karachi Zoo

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed authorities to submit a report on the health and living conditions of all animals at Karachi Zoo, following Tuesday’s decision to transfer brown bear Rano to a sanctuary for medical care. The case of Rano, a...

The World and Everything in It: October 27, 2025

Editor's note: The following text is a transcript of a podcast story. To listen to the story, click on the arrow beneath the headline above. JENNY ROUGH, HOST: Good morning! Police enter a home without a search warrant, a defendant says he...

Relatives search for signs of loved ones in Syrian cemetery left in ruins by Assad regime

DAMASCUS/ISTANBUL Residents of the Yarmouk Camp in Syria’s capital Damascus are trying to locate the graves of their relatives in the Yarmouk Cemetery, left destroyed by the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime and its supporters. The bodies of Israeli...

Assad-era plot to hide thousands of Syria's dead turned desert into a mass grave

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to another, secret location. Drivers were...

Assad’s secret op buries thousands of Syrians in desert mass grave

For nearly two years, on four nights each week, convoys of trucks carried a reek of death across the desert highway – bodies loaded from a mass grave near Damascus to a hidden new site in the Dhumair desert, all under orders from the presidential...

Syria's ousted Assad 'binges video games in secret luxury Moscow skyscraper'

Deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad now spends hours playing video games while living in a luxury tower block in central Moscow. He remains out of sight and is guarded by security operatives loyal to Vladimir Putin. Branded the “Butcher” for...

Assad’s Secret ‘Operation Move Earth’: How Syria’s Regime Hid Thousands in Desert Mass Graves

In a chilling revelation, a Reuters investigation uncovers a clandestine Assad-era operation to conceal evidence of mass atrocities by relocating thousands of bodies from a known mass grave near Damascus to a vast, secret site in the remote...

Minister of Health: Despite Challenges, Jordan Has Never Hesitated to Fulfill Its Duty Toward Its Brothers

Minister of Health Dr. Ibrahim Al-Bdour affirmed that despite economic challenges and limited resources, Jordan has never hesitated to fulfill its humanitarian and health duties toward its Arab brothers. He emphasized that the Kingdom has...