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Secret police tricked Carlos the Jackal into fleeing Prague, archives reveal

New book casts doubt on accepted picture of communist bloc support for violent radicals during cold war

In June 1986, a pair of operatives from communist Czechoslovakia’s StB intelligence service made…

‘We were raided regularly’: with Assad gone, banned books return to Syria’s shelves

Under the deposed dictator, books had to pass detailed scrutiny by government censors

To print a book in the days of the Bashar al-Assad regime, one first had to think of the censors. Was the book pol…

‘I’m not giving up’: US mother resumes search for reporter son kidnapped in Syria in 2012

The Assad regime stopped Debra Tice from entering Syria to search for son Austin, but its downfall has helped to renew her hope

Debra Tice had managed to gather her family in one place in early Decemb…

Broadway biopic and film with Jessica Chastain among Berlinale highlights

Contenders for prestigious Golden and Silver Bear unveiled with 75th edition of festival due to open on 13 February

Richard Linklater’s long-awaited Broadway biopic Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke and …

‘Not a mouthpiece of the regime’: Syria’s state news agency enters new era

Journalists and broadcasters at Sana wait for ‘actions, not words’ but look to future after fall of Assad government

Zyad Mahameed finally has the job he always wanted. In his previous role in the med…

‘It raised our spirits’: Palestinian refugees in Syria on the ceasefire in Gaza

Yarmouk camp residents lived through fighting and starvation in the Syrian civil war and feel intimately connected to the suffering in the Gaza Strip

After 15 months of watching their relatives suffer…

Our £3,700 Egyptian hotel was more like Syrian warzone: Brits' anniversary trip turns in to holiday from hell with power cuts, hairs in bed and 'prison block' rooms that were 'nothing like the photos'

Robbie and Dawn Bennett flew out with two friends for a £3,700 two-week, all-inclusive holiday in Safaga, Egypt, to celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary.

Inside Syria’s ‘horror city': Sednaya and a country reborn – video

A new Syria is emerging from the shadow of the brutal Assad regime. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan and Ayman Abu Ramouz meet people celebrating their hard-won freedom, but also those grappling with a…

4 months ago

Hundreds protest in Christian areas of Syrian capital after Christmas tree burned

Demonstrations flare after video spread on social media showing hooded fighters setting fire to tree

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus early on Tuesday to pr…

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