by Amir Taheri | Nov 22, 2016 | Features
When he assumes the US presidency in a few weeks’ time, one of the first files that the President-elect Donald Trump will find in his foreign policy in-tray will be the continued tragedy in Syria. Speculation is already rife on what he might do. Some analysts believe...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 16, 2016 | Middle East
The Syrian regime and Russia resumed military and air operations in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday, a month after they were suspended. While Moscow insisted that the large scale operation carried out by its forces “does not include Aleppo”, the director...
by Majid AlKhatib and Asharq AlAwsat | Oct 22, 2016 | World
Cologne-A Syrian refugee has gone on trial on charges of working with a terrorist organization and participating in the kidnapping of a U.N. peacekeeper in Damascus in 2013 in what prosecutors call a “war crime”. The 25-year-old, named only as Suliman...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 21, 2016 | World
The killers of the Syrian Imam Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, from Acton, were jailed for life with minimum terms of 32 years yesterday at the Old Bailey Criminal Court. Imam Abdul Hadi Arwani was found dead in his car in Wembley, London after he was shot in April 2015....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 12, 2016 | Middle East
The Russian air force has intensified its raids on neighbourhoods in eastern Aleppo after attacks carried out by the Syrian regime’s forces aimed at recapturing southern neighbourhoods in besieged eastern Aleppo failed. Opposition forces also recaptured most of the...
