When the black flags of the Islamic State (ISIS) swept across Syria and Iraq, terror reigned—and women bore the brunt. ISIS militants captured, enslaved, and sold women in brutal slavery markets, where abuse was both systematic and sadistic. But amid this nightmare, a defiant force emerged: the women of the YPJ. The Women’s Protection Units,…
Syria News: सीरिया में फिर से हिंसक झड़पें शुरू हो गई हैं. ये हिंसक झड़पें पूर्व राष्ट्रपति बशर अल असद के समर्थकों और अंतरिम राष्ट्रपति अबू मोहम्मद अल जुलानी सरकार के HTS सुरक्षाबलों के बीच हुई हैं. इसमें अभी तक 48 लोगों की मौत हो गई है. 2024 दिसंबर में बशर अल असद को सत्ता…
Syria’s finance minister said on Sunday the government would hike salaries for many public sector employees by 400% next month after completing an administrative restructuring of ministries to boost efficiency and accountability. The increase, estimated to cost 1.65 trillion Syrian pounds, or about USD 127 million at current rates, will be financed by existing state…
Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad exchanged his country’s military secrets with Israel for passage out of the country, according to Turkish media reports. Assad allegedly gave coordinates of weapon depots to Israel, which then bombed them even as the rebel forces were taking control of Damascus. The reports reveal how Israel got the precise location…
The citizens of Damascus largely celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s hated regime with joy, after 13 long years of brutal civil war.But the city’s drinking holes did have one concern. The rebel army that overthrew the former leader was led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Islamist group which some drinkers feared would forbid…
In the early days of 2013, an American man, dressed in ragged clothing, dodged between houses in the streets of Damascus’ upscale Mazzeh neighbourhood looking for a civilian to take him to safety after more than five months of captivity in the concrete cells of a local prison. The man, journalist Austin Tice, was taken…
Turkish Qatar officials in Damascus: तुर्किए और कतर के वरिष्ठ अधिकारी पूर्व सीरियाई राष्ट्रपति बशर अल-असद की सरकार को उखाड़ फेंकने वाले विद्रोही खेमे के नेताओं संग चर्चा करने के लिए दमिश्क पहुंचे हैं. इसकी जानकारी सीरिया के अंतरिम सूचना मंत्रालय ने दी है. सिन्हुआ समाचार एजेंसी की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, तुर्किए के प्रतिनिधिमंडल में…
Syria’s new Prime Minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will guarantee minority rights, in an interview published on Wednesday, also calling on the millions who fled the war to return home. Assad fled Syria after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, which…
“History shows how quickly moments of promise can descend into conflict and violence. ISIS will try to use this period to re-establish its capabilities, to create safe havens”, warned Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, after the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria was toppled on December 8. People flooded the streets of Damascus to…
Syria Civil war Crisis: Hama, a city synonymous with one of the darkest chapters in Syria’s history, has become the epicenter of conflict once again. Syrian rebel forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, have seized the strategic city, marking a turning point in the civil war. As fears of reprisals grow and Assad’s forces retreat,…