The war, which has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of of 23 million, began as peaceful protests against Bashar Assad’s government in March 2011
Bashar Assad’s government was widely deemed by the international community to be responsible for the Aug. 21, 2013, sarin gas attack in the suburb of Ghouta
Syria’s military accused insurgents ‘backed by known international forces’ of the attack, without naming any particular group, and said ‘it will respond with full force and decisiveness to these terrorist organizations, wherever they exist’
The human rights activist, now based in the U.S. and Sweden, survived the prisons of Al-Assad and today urges people not to forget the crimes of the regime in Syria
On the 12th anniversary of the war, the population is suffering more from food insecurity and poverty now than in the toughest moments of the conflict. And the forecasts for 2023 are even worse due to the earthquake
President Erdoğan has pledged to build half a million homes within a year, but experts and the opposition say this promise is due to upcoming elections in May
The Pulitzer Prize winner wrote an article where he said the US was responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream, the gasoduct between Russia and Germany, arousing suspicions
At least 164,000 buildings have either collapsed or are so damaged that they need to be demolished, said Murat Kurum, Turkey’s minister for the environment and urbanization
The tremor has deepened the drama of a country beset by 12 years of civil war that killed half a million people and created 6.6 million refugees. Syrians were also dealing with an economic crisis, Covid and cholera