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Introduction
Syria is likely one of the oldest locations the place civilization has thought to have began. Its capital, Damascus, is likely one of the oldest constantly inhabited cities on the earth. All through historical past it has seen many modifications, violent and in any other case.
Right this moment it’s comprised of quite a few ethnic teams, principally Arab, although an inexpensive variety of Kurds, Armenians are additionally current. There have additionally been quite a few Iraqi refugees and the principle Arab group are themselves from totally different sects and denominations.
Round January 2011, following on from the Arab Spring the place protests in opposition to ruling regimes erupted in quite a few Center East nations, protesters in Syria got here out demanding President Bashar al-Assad and his authorities step down. In response, Assad despatched in troops with some cities and areas being besieged for weeks and months. Each professional and anti-government protest gatherings have at instances been giant.
Criticism of Syria’s crackdown has been fairly widespread. The Arab League has responded by suspending Syria’s membership. Syria claims that it’s preventing an insurgency that’s terrorist by nature and claimed Al Qaeda is concerned. It has not been attainable to confirm that declare so many see it as a cynical excuse.
The ruling regime is a sect of Shia, so has help from Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah, whereas the opposition is basically Sunni, thus receiving help from different Center East nations, akin to Saudi Arabia and others.
1000’s have been killed — civilians and armed combatants. Some are asking the West for a navy intervention like there was in Libya, however the US specifically shouldn’t be eager on one other navy intervention though they’ve been overtly hostile and demanding of the Syrian ruling regime for a few years.
China and Russia even have shut ties with Syria and so far haven’t been eager on any motion condemning Syria and have even vetoed some actions. Some papers have reported Iran and others serving to Syria with weapons, whereas others additionally talked about the opposition being armed by the West.
Mainstream media protection is after all a part of the difficulty; understandably the brutal regime crackdown has been met with shock, horror, and so on. However the protection has additionally been one-sided within the sense that comparable forms of violence dedicated by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan don’t obtain comparable criticism, however a lot flatter and measured reporting as a substitute. Media Lens covers this level in rather more element mentioning many propaganda issues in mainstream media protection and is value studying.
Information tales from IPS
Beneath is a listing of tales from Inter Press Service associated to the Syrian rebellion
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‘All of us have somebody lacking’: Households of the 1000’s of Syrians ‘disappeared’ by Assad regime share tales of loss
– UN Information
Tens of 1000’s of individuals went lacking in Syria throughout the Assad household’s rule, which stretches again to the early Seventies. A UN physique set as much as uncover their whereabouts has been listening to the testimony of members of the family of the disappeared throughout a go to to the capital, Damascus, described as a “step on the trail to reality.”
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Syria: Chemical weapons watchdog hits reset button in Damascus, following productive conferences
– UN Information
In a big transfer in direction of eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons programme, the top of the UN-backed worldwide watchdog devoted to ending the scourge has been visiting Damascus, along with a high-level delegation.
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Syria: Assad’s armed forces should face accountability, says rights probe
– UN Information
Widespread pillaging and the destruction of property in Syria by all events to the battle have largely gone unpunished and certain quantity to conflict crimes, high unbiased rights investigators reporting to the Human Rights Council maintained on Thursday.
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Lethal assaults in japanese Aleppo spotlight Syria’s vulnerability
– UN Information
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned a lethal automobile bomb assault within the Syrian metropolis of Manbij that killed 20 folks, principally girls, and left many others critically injured.
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Hidden Hazard: How Conflict Remnants Threaten Syrian Lives
– Inter Press Service
IDLIB, Syria, Feb 03 (IPS) – When 42-year-old Amina al-Hassan’s household returned house after the autumn of the Bashar al-Assad regime, her son stood on a landmine.
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Syria: Particular Envoy applauds ‘shared conviction’ amongst Syrians on political transition
– UN Information
The UN Particular Envoy for Syria mentioned on Monday that Syrians throughout the political spectrum share a deep conviction that the nation’s political transition should succeed.
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Syria: Hostilities and assist challenges persist throughout devastated nation
– UN Information
Humanitarians warned on Thursday that Syria continues to face main safety and assist challenges within the northeast and past, within the unsure aftermath of the overthrow of the Assad regime.
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Syria: Rights probe reveals systematic torture and detention of Assad regime
– UN Information
A report from UN human rights investigators for Syria launched on Monday has laid naked the systematic use of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances by the deposed Assad regime.
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What’s UNDOF? Why UN peacekeepers patrol the Israel-Syria border
– UN Information
Greater than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are at present deployed within the Golan, a demilitarised zone alongside the Israel-Syria border at what’s a tense and harmful time within the historical past of the area. However, why are the Blue Helmets there?
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Dwelling Situations in Syria Deteriorate Throughout Transitional Interval
– Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 23 (IPS) – 13 years of prolonged battle, financial downturns, and a number of earthquakes, has left Syria within the midst of a extreme humanitarian disaster. Hostilities stay plentiful throughout all of Syria’s governorates, with every going through widespread civilian displacements and harm to essential infrastructures. Following the change of presidency in December of 2024, Syrian refugees have begun getting back from neighbouring nations. Nevertheless, this return has been marred with insecurity as a result of sheer scale of unexploded ordnance, which has resulted in quite a few civilian casualties.
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In Syria, high UN envoy highlights worldwide backing for political transition
– UN Information
The UN Particular Envoy for Syria on Wednesday emphasised the sturdy worldwide consensus that’s rising in help of the nation’s political transition because the fall of the Assad regime final month.
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Will these chargeable for atrocities in Syria lastly face justice?
– UN Information
Hopes are rising that, with the help of the United Nations, the architects of the brutal former regime of Bashar al Assad in Syria will finally be held accountable for his or her crimes.
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Safety Council briefed on challenges to peacekeeping in Lebanon, Syria
– UN Information
Two senior UN peacekeeping officers briefed the Safety Council on Friday on latest developments in Lebanon and the occupied Syrian Golan, and the challenges going through “blue helmets” serving there.
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UN human rights chief hails ‘indicators of recent beginnings’ in Lebanon and Syria
– UN Information
The UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights expressed solidarity with the folks of Lebanon and Syria on Thursday, acknowledging the traumas each nations have endured over many years.
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UN rights chief in historic assembly in Syria’s with caretaker authority in Damascus
– UN Information
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk has described the insufferable struggling of former detainees underneath the deposed Assad regime and insisted that he stands with the folks of the war-torn nation as they “rebuild a rustic that works for all Syrians”.
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The Fall of Assad is a Cautionary Story of Blowback
– Inter Press Service
Jan 14 (IPS) – A regime constructed on terror, dominated by worry and sustained by overseas proxy forces crumbled in lower than a fortnight. Ultimately, the foundations of the Home of Assad (1970–2024) rested on the shifting sands of time. Within the good ol’ days, despots might retire with their plundered loot into snug life in Europe’s pleasure haunts. Now not. The reverse damascene expulsion has seen the Assads scurry to security to Moscow.
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Syria emergency: 4 youngsters a day killed by leftover explosives
– UN Information
Syria’s deadly legacy of landmines and different explosives left over from years of battle has led to the deaths of over 100 youngsters within the final month alone, the UN Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) mentioned on Tuesday, calling on the worldwide group to urgently help country-wide demining initiatives.
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First Particular person: Syrian migrant shipwreck survivor vows to reconstruct shattered nation
– UN Information
Syrian refugee Doaa Al Zamel’s harrowing story of surviving a lethal shipwreck introduced the horrors of fleeing conflict to a worldwide viewers when it was informed within the ebook “A Hope Extra Highly effective Than The Sea” in 2017.
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Syria has actual alternative to ‘transfer from the darkness to the sunshine’
– UN Information
Syrians have excessive expectations for his or her nation, and a robust want for folks from throughout the social spectrum to come back collectively and forge a brand new structure, which should start with an inclusive “nationwide dialogue”.
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Greater than 125,000 refugees return to Syria in determined circumstances
– UN Information
A month because the fall of the Assad regime, greater than 125,000 refugees have returned to Syria “filled with hope after years of exile”, solely to seek out themselves confronted by determined circumstances, UN humanitarians warned on Thursday.
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UN Fee notes new sense of optimism in Syria throughout first-ever go to
– UN Information
A workforce from the UN Fee of Inquiry on Syria concluded a primary go to to the nation on Thursday, taking essential steps to advertise dialogue and engagement with the brand new caretaker authorities.
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MIDDLE EAST LIVE: Safety Council meets on Syria, plus Gaza and Lebanon updates
– UN Information
Whereas the conflict in Gaza grinds on with dozens of civilians already reportedly killed and injured to date this yr – and because the fragile ceasefire in Lebanon largely holds – hopes are nonetheless excessive for a profitable transition of energy in Damascus following the overthrow of the Assad regime, though wants and challenges are immense. On Wednesday, ambassadors held their first assembly of the yr on Syria, with all eyes on a possible lifting of sanctions. App customers can observe dwell right here.
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‘A Syrian-led future’: Safety Council highlights priorities forward
– UN Information
The Safety Council met on Wednesday to debate political and humanitarian developments precisely a month on from the collapse of the Assad regime. The transitional authorities additionally outlined their imaginative and prescient for the nation’s future for the primary time in a serious worldwide discussion board.
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World Information in Temporary: Killings of Alawites in Syria, executions in Iran, human rights defenders in Central African Republic
– UN Information
The UN human rights workplace, OHCHR, has urged restraint in Syria, amid stories that some people from the nation’s Alawite group and different minority teams have been focused and killed.
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Syria disaster: UN groups help cholera vaccination in northeastern camps
– UN Information
In northeast Syria, UN groups pressed forward with a lifesaving cholera vaccine marketing campaign in Al Hol detention camp advanced on Friday, regardless of rumours of assaults by ISIL extremists and uncertainty throughout the war-torn nation, following the overthrow of the Assad regime.
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Over 115,000 Syrians have returned house since finish of Assad dictatorship
– UN Information
Greater than 115,000 folks have reportedly returned to Syria from nations akin to Türkiye, Jordan and Lebanon since 8 December – the autumn of the Assad regime – the UN refugee company (UNHCR) mentioned on Thursday.
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Support vehicles ship meals to northwest Syria
– UN Information
Humanitarians proceed to reply to wants in Syria as safety and logistical circumstances allow, the UN mentioned on Tuesday.
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UN help continues in Syria and Lebanon
– UN Information
The UN Particular Envoy for Syria continues to uphold the necessity for a Syrian-led transition in his ongoing talks on the best way ahead for the nation.
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Well being wants in Syria worsen amid winter circumstances
– UN Information
Well being challenges in northwest Syria have escalated on account of harsh winter circumstances, exacerbating the vulnerability of displaced populations, the UN World Well being Group (WHO)-led Well being Cluster reported on Friday.
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Syria: UN well being company launches $56.4 million enchantment to fulfill essential wants
– UN Information
The UN World Well being Group (WHO) on Tuesday launched a $56.4 million flash enchantment to deal with pressing well being wants in Syria, the place years of battle have cripped the healthcare system.
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