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Doctors at a hospital treating the wounded have told of chaos and heartbreak after a bomb and gun attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus killed at least 20 and injured 54. Sunday's assault, the first ...
Over two million Syrians who had fled their homes during their country's war have returned since the ouster of Bashar ...
Rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Islamist ... it added in a statement. From eye doctor to brutal dictator: The rise (and fall) of Syria's Bashar Assad More: How Syria rebels' stars ...
DAMASCUS—For days, Syrians have watched as Iranian missiles and Israeli interceptors light up the skies over their territory, ...
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The Absent Arab Mind
Yesterday, this newspaper published a piece by Saudi columnist Dr. Abdulghani Al-Kindi. “Why Did Israel and Iran’s Clash Surprise the Arabs?” is not merely an important column; it is a text that ...
The Israel-Iran conflict is a high-stakes moment for Vladimir Putin who risks losing an important ally in the region in the ...
The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial ...
A German court on Monday handed a life sentence to a Syrian doctor who tortured opponents of former ruler Bashar al-Assad ...
A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against ...
A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of  Bashar ...
Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria ... He served in the Syrian Army for four years as a doctor. In 1992 he moved to London to continue his studies, but was called back to Syria ...