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All the Tyrant's Men: Chipping Away at the Assad Regime's Core

Bashar’s maternal uncle and cousins, the Makhlouf family, head the security and telecommunications sectors, a major cash cow. Cousin Hafez Makhlouf heads the General Intelligence Directorate in Damascus, where Iyad Makhlouf works as well

Al-Anfal Campaign in Ghouta

The Syrian army believed that what happened in Ghouta was a media war, following an official justification classifying yesterday’s massacres as being mere images carried by channels “that are partners in the bloodshed” affecting the Syrian people

Opinion: The West is selectively blind

Where is the concern for human rights with the carnage that takes place every day in Syria which led to the killing of more than 100,000 Syrians

Influx of Syrian Kurdish refugees into Iraq causes concern

The influx of refugees has raised the regional government’s concerns about its ability to absorb the number of people arriving in the area, because it lacks the resources to provide for them