US and UK Sanction Assad Regime Over Syria’s Illegal Drugs Trade
US and UK sanction Assad regime figures over their involvement in Syria’s illegal drug trade, including $57 billion “financial lifeline” of Captagon.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 29, 2023 | Syria | 0
US and UK sanction Assad regime figures over their involvement in Syria’s illegal drug trade, including $57 billion “financial lifeline” of Captagon.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 25, 2023 | Iran, Syria | 6
US warplanes strike Iran-backed militia in NE Syria, after an Iranian-made drone kills contractor and wounds 5 troops and 1 contractor in attack on US base.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 24, 2023 | Syria | 0
Saudi Arabia and the Assad regime are in discussions about renewing diplomatic links, beginning with the restoration of consular services.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 22, 2023 | Syria | 0
Israel has reportedly struck Syria’s Aleppo International Airport, taking it out of service, in latest missile attack on Assad regime and Iranian targets.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 19, 2023 | Russia, Syria | 0
PR value of Bashar al-Assad’s appearance with Vladimir Putin in Moscow crumbles over dispute about Turkey presence in Syria, as high-level meeting cancelled.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 1, 2023 | MENA, Syria, Turkey | 4
50,000+ people have been killed in Syria and Turkey by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the most powerful quakes in the region for more than a century.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 27, 2023 | Syria | 0
In further sign of Arab countries edging towards renewed relations with Syria’s Assad regime, Egypt Foreign Minister meets Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 23, 2023 | Syria | 0
Multiple sources say Israel’s missile strike on Damascus targeted Iranian and Assad regime officials pursuing development of drone or missile capabilities.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 18, 2023 | Syria | 0
Latest Islamic State attack v. Assad regime, near al-Sukhna in central Syria, reportedly kills 46 civilians and 7 troops who were “truffle hunting”.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 12, 2023 | Europe, MENA, Syria, UK, What's New, World | 0
The Week in Review with political malfeasance in the UK, the Ukraine War, the Turkey-Syria earthquake, and a discussion of British comedy and music
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 10, 2023 | Syria, What's New | 0
Syria’s Assad regime seeks political and economic benefits from an earthquake, pushing myths about sanctions and trying to cut off opposition areas.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 31, 2023 | Syria | 2
OPCW chemical watchdog formally blames the Assad regime for an April 2018 chlorine attack near Syria’s capital Damascus which killed 43 civilians.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 24, 2023 | Syria | 0
As Syrians face soaring inflation and fuel shortages amid 12-year conflict, Assad regime sharply cuts expenditure and subsidies in its budget for 2023.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 10, 2023 | Russia, Syria | 0
After Russia backs away from veto, UN Security Council approves delivery of humanitarian aid to 4 million civilians in NW Syria for another 6 months.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 6, 2023 | Syria | 0
UN: Assad regime, following 300+ chlorine and sarin attacks across Syria since 2012, still refusing to cooperate over its chemical weapons & facilities.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 4, 2023 | Russia, Syria, Turkey | 0
Turkey Defense Minister meets Assad regime counterpart for 1st time since Syria uprising in March 2011, as Ankara seeks cross-border attack on Kurdish area.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 2, 2023 | Syria | 3
In 1st strikes of 2023, Israeli warplanes briefly knock Damascus International Airport out of service and kill at least two Assad regime troops.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Dec 8, 2022 | Iran, Syria | 0
Syria’s Assad regime, already in economic crisis, faces more fuel shortages after Iran suspends oil shipments. Power cuts now up to 22 hours a day.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Dec 1, 2022 | Syria | 0
The Islamic State confirms death of its leader, Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, in southern Syria. He is 3rd head of the group slain since October 2019.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Nov 29, 2022 | Syria | 0
Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons again calls out Assad regime for chemical attacks killing up to 2,000 civilians with sarin and chlorine.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Nov 20, 2022 | Syria, Turkey | 0
Turkey’s warplanes strike Kurdish and Assad regime positions in northern areas of Syria, reportedly killing 11 civilians, a journalist, and 14 regime troops
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Nov 7, 2022 | Syria | 0
Assad regime kills at least 9 civilians and wounds more than 70 in aerial attacks on displaced persons’ camps near Idlib city in northwest Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Nov 2, 2022 | Syria | 0
Displaced youth sift through rubbish at the Rukban camp in southeast Syria, November 2019 (Amad...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 29, 2022 | Syria | 0
Maj. Ahmad Yousef, who oversaw mass killing in Tadamon, Syria, operates from military base outside Damascus —- and is accused of directing 12 more massacres
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 24, 2022 | Syria | 0
Head of World Health Organization in Syria, Dr Akjemal Magtymova, faces accusations of corruption, fraud, and abuse as well as complicity with Assad regime.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 20, 2022 | Russia, Syria | 0
Trying to salvage Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s military moves military hardware, including S-300 air defense, and troops out of Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 14, 2022 | Syria | 0
Eleven Assad troops and two civilians killed in an attack on a bus on the Raqqa-Homs highway in northern Syria, amid series of Islamic State assaults
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 7, 2022 | Syria | 0
US kills three senior members of the Islamic State in attacks in northeast Syria, including one in a helicopter raid inside territory held by Assad regime.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 6, 2022 | Syria | 0
New report estimates that 30,000+ detainees were executed or died from poor conditions at Assad regime’s Sednaya military prison from 2011 to 2018.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Sep 27, 2022 | Syria | 0
Cholera is spreading throughout Syria, posing a “serious threat” to Syrians amid drought and the damage of almost 12 years of conflict.
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