#Syria

Assad-allied Lebanese PM warns of Lebanon’s “total collapse”, blaming “Syrian displacement crisis”

Dec 13, 2023

Assad-allied Lebanese PM warns of Lebanon’s “total collapse”, blaming “Syrian displacement crisis”

"Sexual exploitation and assaults": Child abuse scandals haunt Putin’s Assad regime favourite, Suhail Al-Hassan

Suhail Hassan with youths

A large number of photos have circulated in recent years showing Major General Suhail al-Hassan, a senior officer in Assad’s forces known as ‘the Tiger’ (al Nimr), pictured in often suggestive poses with youthful and under-age male conscripts, raising doubt and mistrust over the reasons and circumstances of their capture, and representing decisive evidence of the recruitment of children into the ranks of Assad’s militias.

Iranian militias kill more civilians, burn agricultural machinery in Homs countryside

An armed group affiliated with Iranian-backed militias attacked a group of agricultural workers in an area near Al-Sukhna in eastern rural Homs on Tuesday (June 6), killing four of them and burning agricultural machinery.

Activists said that four civilians who were working harvesting crops were killed in the attack by the Iranian militia-affiliated gunmen, adding that the victims came from the towns of Talbiseh and Gharnata in the north of the governorate.

Following meeting with Russian military chief, SDF head calls on Assad regime to stand with the SDF

Speaking in an interview with the Russia Today channel, Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the US-backed ‘Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) militia said on Sunday that the Assad regime forces’ main concern is protecting the Syrian borders, calling on the regime to take a decision to stand with the SDF in the face of a possible Turkish attack.

The statement and interview followed a meeting between Abdi and the commander of the Russian forces in Syria, Alexander Chayko during a visit by Chayko to the northeastern province of al-Hasakah, on Sunday.

Assad regime TV host stops translation of Western propagandist’s comments after he unintentionally exposes Assad during interview

Sep 11, 2022

A Western propagandist for Assad’s regime, hosted on a regime TV talk show in a bid to boost the regime's image, instead unintentionally exposed Assad's media, putting the host in an embarrassing situation, and showing up the program, which is based on using foreign guests to polish Bashar al-Assad's image and put a positive spin on the real situation in the areas controlled by his militias.

The Darayya Massacre... survivors recall 7 days of Assad regime bombing, slaughter and field executions

Aug 25, 2022

Article from Syria TV

Ten years ago today, on Monday, August 20, 2012, as Muslims in Syria and worldwide were celebrating the second day of Eid al-Fitr, bulldozers moved to close all entrances and exits to the city of Darayya in Western Ghouta, so that Assad regime forces and militias could begin a 7-day mass cleansing campaign, in which more than 700 people were killed, including 524 women and children. Documented by name, the regime's militias arrested hundreds and wounded more than 1,500 people in the bombing.

Muslim scholars asks Hamas to reconsider decision to restore relations with Assad regime

Jul 10, 2022

Muslim scholars who met with Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ political bureau, said the meeting was held in order to appeal to him to reconsider the party’s decision to work towards restoring relations with the Assad regime, announced in June.

The statement clarified what transpired in their recent meeting with the leadership of the Hamas political bureau in Istanbul, Turkey, stating that Haniyeh promised to discuss the scholars' views with the other members of the movement's political bureau at its nearest meeting.

Muslim scholars asks Hamas to reconsider decision to restore relations with Assad regime

Jul 10, 2022

Muslim scholars who met with Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ political bureau, said the meeting was held in order to appeal to him over the party’s decision to work towards restoring relations with the Assad regime.

The statement clarified what transpired in their recent meeting with the leadership of the Hamas political bureau in Istanbul, Turkey, stating that Haniyeh promised to discuss the scholars' vision and present it to the other members of the movement's political bureau at its nearest meeting.

Assad: Russia's war in Ukraine is "in the interests of Syria and Iran"

Jul 03, 2022

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly stated on Saturday, July 2, that Russia’s war on Ukraine and the related political losses, which he said had been incurred by the West due to its “masks being removed” and its “lies exposed” there, constitute the start of a new international balance.

Iranian militias evict dozens more Syrians from their homes in Homs governorate, seize properties

Apr 22, 2022

Iranian militias have reportedly seized more civilians’ homes in the cities of Palmyra and Sukhna, east of Homs, after forcibly evicting their residents, leaving them destitute, after the expiry of the period ‘granted’ by these militias to the local people, under the pretext that there are no official papers proving their ownership of these properties, or any lease contracts certified by the relevant government departments between the owners of these properties and the tenants.

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