Installed in the Akrama district in the city center of Homs for twenty-five years, Mona (1) has just lived the worst for a mother: her two boys, Mohamed and Amjad, 25 and 26 years old, were kidnapped on February 5 by unknown. “I don’t want to testify”she said on the phone for fear of reprisals. … Read more
The Cross: You participated in the Syrian revolution from its beginnings, in 2011. How, more than thirteen years later, did you react to the fall of Bashar Al Assad? Samar Yazbek: I had become certain that Bashar Al Assad would be overthrown since the liberation of Aleppo by the militias. However, when it fell, I … Read more
When we enter the building of the mohafazat, the town hall of Damascus, employees are still cleaning up the broken glass and pieces of plaster. A Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTC) fighter filters entry into the ransacked building. “The coffers have been emptied (by the pro-regime, Editor’s note) and computer hard drives destroyed before our arrival”explains … Read more
The news broke shortly before 5 p.m. Monday December 9. The French Interior Ministry said “work on a suspension of ongoing asylum cases from Syria based on the German model”after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. “A decision should be reached in the coming hours”indicated the same source. In 2023, 4,465 asylum applications were … Read more
► Emirates official calls on Syrians to avoid “chaos” A senior United Arab Emirates official on Sunday (December 8) urged Syrians to work together to avoid “chaos”in the first reaction of an Arab country to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad after a dazzling rebel offensive. “We hope to see the Syrians working together and … Read more