by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 11, 2017 | Saudi Arabia
Dammam – Relevant authorities have commenced destruction of Al-Masoura Neighborhood in the town of Awamiyah – in the Kingdom’s Eastern province – in the presence of security bodies to ensure safety of engineers and workers who have started...
by Michael Kimmelman | Oct 16, 2016 | Middle East
The destruction is so complete that it obliterates even a sense of time. At a glance, the video shot from a drone could show Berlin in 1945 or Grozny, 2000. Mass death erases all distinctions. The place is Aleppo, Syria, the Mashhad district, or what remains of it...
by Stephen Heyman | Sep 7, 2016 | Features
Did Syria’s urban architecture help fuel the civil war that has shattered the country and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people? This is the provocative theory proposed by Marwa al-Sabouni, a young architect from Homs who spent two years confined to her...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 5, 2016 | Middle East
Eight months after ISIS took over Ramadi, Iraqi government forces backed by U.S.-led warplanes wrested the city from the ultra-radical militants, heralding a major victory. But the cost of winning has been Ramadi itself. In the once blooming Haji Ziad Square, not a...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Apr 30, 2016 | Opinion
Syrian regime warplanes deliberately chose their targets; hospitals and civilian neighbourhoods in their vicinity were bombed violently and did not face resistance because residents are unable to defend themselves on the ground due to the international embargo. The...
