South Syria increasingly unstable even as normalization proceeds with Assad
Economic turmoil and failed attempts at reconciliation over a decade after the beginning of Syria's civil war keep the country on unstable footing.
Economic turmoil and failed attempts at reconciliation over a decade after the beginning of Syria's civil war keep the country on unstable footing.
In March 2022, a group of wild Namibian elephants landed in the UAE. The New Arab's investigation reveals that the sale serves only to simulate an African safari experience in Emirati zoos with no benefit for the animals and Namibian locals.
When the US Supreme Court repealed Roe vs Wade at the end of June, people took to Twitter to warn: delete your period tracking apps. With abortion rights no longer protected at the federal level, the decision is up to the states - more than half of which are likely to ban the procedure.
On the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin gave a rambling, hour-long speech in which he claimed that Ukraine historically belonged to Russia and that his war would be a correction. Almost immediately after, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad came out in full support of the action.
In the early weeks of November world leaders convened in Glasgow to accelerate the global response to the threats of climate change. More than three thousand miles away, along the Euphrates River in northeast Syria and Iraq, the threat had already arrived.
Frank Herbert, Dune In 1930s Europe, the fascists were anxious. Out of power and decidedly unpopular, far-right circles had to regroup and revise their strategy to maintain an ideology quickly falling out of fashion. It paid off when fascists and their ideological cousins came to power decades later - in America in 2016.
Daraa occupies a unique role in the story of Syria's war. It was there, in March 2011, where what began as a localised protest became the 'spark' that ignited the revolution in Syria. A decade ago, the scene at the al-Omari mosque was much bloodier.
Less than 24 hours after the president ordered an assault on peaceful protesters outside the White House, the demonstrators returned to Lafayette Square. This time, the police had pushed the barricades as far back as H Street, completely blocking off Lafayette Square.
By Saturday afternoon, it was clear that the White House's week-long efforts to fortify the building were comically ill-conceived. Protesters by the thousands walked past the fencing stretching from the front of Lafayette Square to the back edge of the South Lawn, uninterested in engaging with the law enforcement behind the gates.
It's hard to hear Amanda Litman's voice at first. She's speaking on the phone from a noisy café in Chicago. Based in Brooklyn, she's spent the past six weeks bouncing around the country for fundraising events, media interviews, and volunteer meetings.
At forty-three years old, Kaymi Ross has long been financially independent. But she recently found herself doing something she hadn't done since her twenties: calling her retired mother to ask for money. That's because Ross, a lawyer at the Department of Justice, is one of the more than 800,000 federal employees going without pay as the government shutdown drags on past the one-month mark.
Donald Trump is anything but subtle. When he designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization on April 8, the timing was impeccable. One day before Israel's election, the decision was a major boost to Benjamin Netanyahu, who went on to win a fifth term as prime minister.
"After five years of fighting, we stand here to declare the physical defeat of ISIS." So reads the latest press release from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on March 23. This victory comes after months of drawn-out fighting in Syrian territory straddling the Euphrates River and the Iraqi border.
How Trump abandoned Assad's opposition long before he withdrew U.S. soldiers from Syria. When President Donald Trump announced America's military withdrawal from Syria last year, just about everyone-from White House officials to U.S. allies on the ground-were shocked and disheartened. While the abandonment of American partners against ISIS has rightly been called a "betrayal," it should not have been unexpected.
President Donald Trump seems to have a favorite kind of crisis: one of his own making. His decision on Thursday to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria is evidence of that. With one stroke of a pen, he infuriated members of his own administration-resulting in Defense Secretary Jim Mattis's resignation-and left the anti-ISIS coalition wondering what comes next.