Turkey’s military offensive in Afrin is also an example of how refugees are instrumentalized to gain domestic support for foreign policy ambitions.
As the long and tumultuous Syrian civil war grinds on, the cascade of death, displacement and physical destruction shows no signs of ending.
While recent violence in Eastern Ghouta has made international headlines throughout the first months of 2018, it has not been the only display of force by the Syrian regime.
Aid workers speak out against the suffering of Syria, the failures of politicians and the cynicism of political campaigns to discredit foreign aid.
The sharp regional and international alignments that have currently gripped the Middle East in general, and Syria in particular, have put the Syrian Kurds at a crossroads. العربية
In the 4-month period from 1 July to 30 October 2017, Israel violated Lebanon’s airspace 758 times for a total of 3,188 hours.
Syrian ‘guests’ in Turkey have been used not only as political tools for foreign ambitions, but also for reinforcing the conservative and Islamist ideology promoted by Erdogan’s AKP.
الاصطفافات الإقليميّة والدوليّة الحادّة التي تعصف بمنطقة الشرق الأوسط عامّة، وسوريا بشكلٍ خاصّ، وَضَعَت الكُرد السوريين على مفترق طُرُق، في موقفٍ يُعيدُ إلى الأذهان اتفاقيّة سايكس بيكو، ومعاهدتي سيفر، ولوزان. English
Kurds, it seems, have the misfortune of being victims of a “non-western” power and so their suffering barely registers. Kurdish
Upon arriving in Syria, the first step a foreign fighter takes is to find a woman to marry. Why do Syrian women accept such marriages? عربي
The end game is clear: Assad, Russia and Iran will emerge victorious.
