THE REGION is a weekly news digest of significant developments in the Middle East that will be of interest for the American and Middle Eastern audiences. THE REGION is a news selection curated by the experts of ACLS and drawn from English, Arabic, and other regional language sources. For questions about THE REGION or suggestions for topics to cover, contact the editor of THE REGION at rkisar@acls.shinesyr.org.
More than a year and a half into their tenure, the Biden administration studiously avoids having a Syria policy.
Syria has disappeared from the world’s newspaper headlines, but the situation inside the country grows more volatile by the day. In every quarter of Syria, daily life is becoming unsustainable.
The Syrian regime is guilty of terrible war crimes – the killing of civilians, destruction of property, and the use of chemical weapons against defenseless civilian populations. The regime has also committed crimes against humanity which, in my view, include: the systematic killing, arrest, forced disappearance of countless individuals, as well as the torture, and …
Syria: A Dictatorial Regime And Its Continuing Crimes Read More »
When Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against Syrian communities, he found himself the object of the indignation of the free world. But when he uses his Captagon weapon against them, his attacks are invisible to the outside world, making Assad’s drug victimization of Syrians the perfect crime without trace or noise. The Syrian …
Narcotics: Assad’s New Weapons of Mass Destruction Read More »
September 30, 2022 marked the seven-year anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in Syria to prop up Bashar al-Assad’s sinking regime. Since September 2015, Syrian cities, towns, and villages have suffered the same war crimes the world now sees the Russians committing against Ukraine. Syrians believe a principal reason the Russians feel free to terrorize …
With Eyes on Ukraine, Syrians Mark Seven Years of Russian War Crimes Read More »
For more than eleven years there has been precious little accountability as Bashar al-Assad and his Syrian regime have committed the worst atrocities of the twenty-first century, but mounting documentary evidence of Assad’s deliberate policy of mass murder and torture may change that.
