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2 days ago · After the onset of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, control of the Syrian-administered part of the Golan Heights was split between the state government and Syrian opposition forces, with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) maintaining a 266 km 2 (103 sq mi) buffer zone in between to help implement the Israeli–Syrian ceasefire across the Purple Line.
6 days ago · May 13. Watch 7:16. In Syria, more than 100,000 have entered Assad’s prisons — and never returned. While one phrase of Syria's brutal nine-year civil war may be concluding, the systemic forced ...
May 26, 2024 · Beginning in 2011, Assad faced a major uprising in Syria that evolved into a civil war. Early life. Bashar al-Assad was the third child of Hafez al-Assad, a Syrian military officer and member of the Baʿath Party who in 1971 ascended to the presidency via a coup.
May 24, 2024 · A Paris court has sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad ...
May 7, 2024 · ABSTRACT. In the Syrian Civil War, external observers have often misunderstood and misrepresented the nature and significance of indiscriminate violence that drives displacement, with the result that it has been (mis)understood as being driven by primordial sectarian hatred.
3 days ago · List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
May 21, 2024 · 2 of 7 | . Lawyer Clemence Bectarte answers reporters Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at a courtroom in Paris. A Paris court will this week seek to determine whether Syrian intelligence officials — the most senior to go on trial in a European court over crimes allegedly committed during the country’s civil war — were responsible for the 2013 disappearance and deaths of Patrick Dabbagh and his father Mazen.
