Uncertainty over the disappeared is forcing many to confront the brutal reality of Assad’s military prisonsThe last time Alaa Qasar saw her father, in 2013, he studied her face as if he was trying to memorise it. Moutaz...
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Read MoreHuman Rights Watch says Israeli forces have acted deliberately to cut availability of clean waterIsrael’s restriction of Gaza’s water supply to levels below minimum needs amounts to an act of genocide and...
Read MoreFormer Syrian leader claimed he wanted to stay and fight but left after Russian airbase came under attack• Middle East crisis – live updatesThe former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has said he had no plans to flee...
Read MoreRifaat al-Assad, the ‘Butcher of Hama’, identified as client of consultant who received ban and fine this yearAn uncle of the recently ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad used an adviser in Guernsey to secretly...
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Read MoreForeign secretary says Britain is also working diplomatically to secure better governance in Syria after ousting of AssadThe UK has announced £50m of humanitarian aid for vulnerable Syrians across the Middle East after the...
Read MoreLaila Soueif to sit outside Foreign Office over Cairo’s extended detention of her British-Egyptian dissident sonA woman on hunger strike to secure the release of her son, the British-Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah,...
Read MoreStrikes follow statement by Israel’s defence minister that troops would remain on Mount Hermon for winterIsrael struck dozens of sites in Syria overnight with airstrikes, despite the Syrian rebel leader, Abu Mohammed...
Read MoreFormer president’s regime killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of protesters. Now Syrians are facing a new country and a new realityOne month ago, during a meeting in Beirut, a senior western diplomat was venting his...
Read MoreAbu Hafs al-Hamwi’s HTS group coordinated rebels to create a unified war effort that included a specialist drone unitMiddle East crisis – live updatesSyrian rebels began planning the military assault that toppled the...
Read MoreTravis Pete Timmerman, from Missouri, says he was imprisoned for seven months after travelling to Syria on a pilgrimageAn American citizen found in the suburbs of Damascus on Thursday says he was detained after crossing into the...
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