Schlagwort: Assad

„Russia has increased dramatically both the rate and breadth of its airstrikes in Syria, tripling the number of air raids in the past few days and demonstrating its ‚freedom of action‘ in the war-torn country, according to an analysis by a U.S.-based think tank. ‚The escalation marks a dangerous shift…

Mit Hilfe der US-Luftwaffe stürmen dieser Tage schiitische Milizionäre die Stadt Fallujah im Irak. Die überwältigende Mehrheit von ihnen ist nicht etwa der irakischen Regierung verpflichtet, sondern hat dem obersten Revolutionsführer im Iran, Ayatollah al-Khamenei, die Treue geschworen. Berichten zufolge sollen sie von niemand geringerem als Qassem Soleimani geleitet werden,…

„In western Syria an Assad policy of mass homicide and collective punishment prevails; a policy that makes negotiations impossible. In eastern Syria ISIS is chased by airplanes and harassed by a Kurdish militia. The administration therefore has the worst of both worlds. In the west it has protected not one…

„At least 60,000 people have died in Syrian government prisons over the past five years due to either torture or dire humanitarian conditions such as lack of food, a monitor said Saturday. The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, Rami Abdel Rahman, said he compiled the…

„The campaign group Naame Shaam today said that it will stop all its activities after two years of exposing and campaigning against the Iranian regime’s role in Syria. Since its launch in February 2014, the group has helped change the narrative around what the Iranian regime and its militias are…

„Syria’s regime has used sarin nerve gas for the first time since 2013, dropping bombs laden with the chemical agent on Isil fighters outside Damascus, according to a senior Israeli official. This use of sarin would show that Bashar al-Assad has retained the ability to gas his enemies despite an…

„Innerhalb der arabischen Welt gehörte Syrien zu den besser ausgebildeten Ländern mit einer der niedrigsten Analphabetenraten. Aus einer Reihe von Studien über das Lehrmaterial in syrischen Schulen zwischen 2000 und 2008 geht hervor, dass Antizionismus und Antisemitismus fester Bestandteil des obligatorischen weltanschaulichen Unterrichts sind: Zionismus soll auf Lügen basieren, Juden…

(von Bassam Tibi) „Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen den Übergriffen der Silvesternacht in Köln und der Lage in Syrien? Die Antwort lautet: Ja, diesen Zusammenhang gibt es, und zu dem gemeinsamen Nenner gehört die Gewalt gegen Frauen. Viele meiner deutschen Gesprächspartner scheinen die Gewalt, die in der Tradition einer orientalisch-patriarchalischen Kultur gegen…

„Assad regime’s top cleric Ahmad Badr al-Hassoun passed a fatwa, judgment, to exterminate Syrians in  the eastern parts of Aleppo where civilians live under opposition’s control. Hassoun said on Assad regime’s news channel al-Akhbaraya, ‚I call upon the Syrian Army to show us its rage and I also call upon…

Das iranische Regime, das bereits während des Iran-Irak-Kriegs in den 1980er Jahren Kindersoldaten in Selbstmordkommandos zur Minenräumung einsetzte, macht erneut Propaganda für den Einsatz von Kindern in bewaffneten Verbänden. Diesmal ruft es die Jugendlichen dazu auf, in den Krieg in Syrien zu ziehen und sich für die Verteidigung von Bashar…

„The last paediatrician in Aleppo has been killed in an airstrike believed to have been carried out by the Syrian regime. Reports from the besieged city said Dr Wassim was among 14 people killed when jets attacked the Al Quds hospital in Syria. The airstrike, which destroyed the hospital, was…

„The Syrian government cut deals with Islamic State to help the jihadists earn more than $40 million a month from the sale of oil, documents recovered from a US and British raid on a key commander have revealed. Thousands of spreadsheets and accounts kept by the group’s oil boss Abu…

„As Syria continues to be ravaged with no signs that the end of its crisis will produce a unified and stable (let alone pro-Western) Arab state, I wonder from time to time what would have happened had U.S. efforts succeeded in negotiating an Israeli-Syrian peace agreement in the 1990s. For…

„Diplomacy has meanwhile made little progress with no compromise over the future of President Bashar al-Assad, his position strengthened by Iranian and Russian military support. A top Iranian official, in comments to Iran TV, rejected what he described as a U.S. request for Tehran’s help to make Assad leave power,…

„Two of Rabe’s brothers, Hassan and Hameed, were arrested in 2012 for helping to treat protesters injured while demonstrating against the Assad regime, Rabe said. Both had gone to pharmacy school, and had their own shop in Aleppo where they sold medicine. Rabe said they were detained for two months…