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UN rights chief in historic meeting in Syria’s with caretaker authority in Damascus
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk has described the unbearable suffering of former detainees under the deposed Assad ...
The Economist13m
A short history of Syria, in maps
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...
Middle East Eye59m
Looting and destruction: The reality of return for Syria’s 13 million displaced
Around 6.2 million Syrians fled the country during the 13-year conflict. Since the fall of Assad in a rebel offensive on 8 ...
UN rights chief urges reconciliation process in first Syria visit
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...
France 2446m
Despite Israel’s threatening presence, Syrians in Golan refuse to leave ‘in exchange for peace’
Assad, Syrians living in the Quneitra governorate in the Golan Heights looked on as Israeli troops suddenly drove into their ...