Sacks of chemicals, plastic fruit … and millions of pills: inside a Damascus Captagon factory

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 16:44 UTC

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Burnt-out rooms reveal extent of lucrative regime-supported operation to smuggle drug across region

It was no secret, everyone seemed to know where it was. When asked for directions, the coffee vendor…

Assad denies planning to flee Syria before evacuation by Moscow

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 16:44 UTC

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Former Syrian leader claimed he wanted to stay and fight but left after Russian airbase came under attack

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The former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has said he had…

Assad's killing fields: Mass graves containing 'sacks full of human bones' are discovered near Damascus as Syrians dig up horrors of dictator's regime

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 16:44 UTC

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An alleged mass grave in the Baghdad Bridge area near the Syrian capital features deep trenches filled with human remains, believed to belong to slaughtered civilians.

Syria’s Captagon trade: inside a Damascus amphetamine factory

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 13:56 UTC

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Burnt-out rooms reveal extent of lucrative regime-supported operation to smuggle drug across region

It was no secret, everyone seemed to know where it was. When asked for directions, the coffee vendor…

Assad claims he wished to keep fighting as Syrian regime fell but Russians evacuated him – Middle East crisis live

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 13:56 UTC

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Syrian dictator says he left country on evening of 8 December in first comments since his regime was toppled by rebel offensive

Syria’s Kurds, who run a semi-autonomous administration in the north-eas…

Syrian dictator Assad issues astonishing first statement since he was toppled: Tyrant insists he wanted to keep fighting and claims Putin 'forced him' to flee

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 13:56 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Assad claimed to have left Damascus for Russia's Hmeimim air base in the early hours of December 8, shortly before Islamist rebels from Ha'yat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other militias seized the city

Middle East crisis live: Death toll in Gaza Strip since 7 October tops 45,000, Palestinians say; Israel bombards Syrian coastal region

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 10:50 UTC

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Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed over 45,000 people since Hamas’s attack on 7 October, Palestine’s health ministry has said

Syria’s Kurds, who run a semi-autonomous administration in the north-ea…

Fury as minister refuses to rule out Shamima Begum being allowed to RETURN to Britain from Syrian detention camp

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 10:50 UTC

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Begum is currently detained in a detention camp in north-east Syria after her UK citizenship was revoked by the previous Tory government when she fled Britain as a schoolgirl to join ISIS.

Prisoner freed by CNN was one of Assad's intelligence henchmen who killed and tortured but gave a 'false id' during rescue, report claims

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 10:50 UTC

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Verify-Sy identified the 'hidden prisoner' as Salama Mohammad Salama, a first lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, which served former President Bashar al-Assad.

'The Syrian regime hit us with chemical weapons: only now can we speak out' – video

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 07:39 UTC

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Syrian airforce helicopters dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas onto the town of Douma on 7 April 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. For six years, afraid of reprisals, the town has grieved…