Tag: Middle East

Can Syria’s Islamist rebels govern the country? Their rule in Idlib offers clues

Fighters from the Popular Resistance Brigades, a local militia, take part in

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Israel accuses an ‘unprecedented’ number of Israelis of spying for Iran

A view of the Israeli port city of Haifa on November 27,

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The dead, the missing and the reunited: Three tales of Syria’s tortured prisoners

CNN  —  In the days following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad,

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Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad

Damascus, Syria CNN  —  The bruised and battered bodies inside the morgue

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At Syria’s border with Lebanon, refugees return home while others flee fearing the worst

Nadia’s son fled the war in Syria nine years ago. Following the

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Missing US man found in Syria says he was kept in prison after entering country as a pilgrim

CNN  —  A missing US man has been found in Syria, where

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Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal

A torn portrait of Bashar al-Assad, which appears to have been arranged,

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Child killed after shooting attack on Israeli civilian bus in the West Bank

CNN  —  A ten-year-old boy has been killed in a shooting attack

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Videos point to Assad regime’s involvement in large-scale trafficking of illicit drugs

Screengrabs taken from a video posted to social media on December 11

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How Syria’s rebels toppled the Assad regime, in 7 maps

CNN  —  For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had

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