DAMASCUS (AA) – After the fall of Syria’s 61-year-old Baath regime, Anadolu filmed a torture center in the Syrian capital, revealing the Assad family’s abuses. Located in Damascus’s Kafr Sousa district, the intelligence headquarters of the Bashar Assad regime, nestled among ministries and government buildings, conceals underg...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has condemned the Pentagon for misleading the public about the number of US troops deployed in Syria. “The Pentagon’s admission that 2,000 U.S. troops have been secretly operating in Syria is stunning. T...
ANKARA (AA) – A “strong” arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Syria’s deposed leader Bashar Assad is “just a matter of time,” says an international affairs expert. Levent Ersin Oralli, an academic at Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, said that Syrian ousted leader Bashar Assad clearly...
HMEIMIM, Syria (AA) – Activity at Russia’s Hmeimim Air Base in Syria, which played a pivotal role in altering the trajectory of the civil war in late 2015, has reportedly come to a near standstill. Following the summer of 2015, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad faced significant losses to opposition forces, Moscow responded to […...
Instruments used to torture people have been uncovered at the Aleppo prison in Syria. The prison housed numerous solitary cells and wards with names and dates carved into the doors by prisoners. Whips, blindfolds, tire rubbers, and ceiling-hung chained handcuffs have been found at the prison. Biometric photos belonging to many people, includ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The State Department has said that it is uncertain how accountability for the war crimes committed by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime will be determined, noting it would be up to the country’s future representatives to decide on the path forward. “In practicality, I’m just unsure how that would ultimately work, given tha...
Israel has escalated its military campaign, launching attacks across Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria this week. In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes killed 32 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including children and a doctor, in the besieged north. Fourteen of the victims were women and children, as residential areas in Jabalia were devastated. Simult...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) – Civil Defense teams in Damascus are investigating human remains found in a warehouse in the Sayyidah Zaynab district. The remains are believed to belong to more than 20 people, including children. The discovery comes as mass graves and remains continue to be uncovered in Syria after the collapse of the brutal, [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Syria’s collapsed regime of tyrannical despot Bashar al-Assad has left the country and its economy in ruins, turning it into a den for violent organizations and illegal activity. The country suffered from displacement and uncountable deaths, while its capital stock and economic activities were plagued by the civil war and i...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will continue occupying Syria’s Golan Heights in the foreseeable future. His remarks came during a military assessment he held along with his defense minister, army chief of staff, and other officials on the peak of Hermon Mount (Jaba...
