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Syria’s decade of death

James Snell 20 March 2020

Now in its tenth year, Syria’s war has seen an entire generation of reporters come and go, exposing its crimes in minute detail to a world that only ever grows more indifferent.

The Assad regime’s “Terrorism Financing Commission” recently accused Turkey’s president, Lebanon’s prime minister, and a host of other politicians, judges, academics, and ordinary citizens of supporting jihadism. The laughable charges better describe Assad’s own record, writes James Snell.

Stone cold

James Snell 8 January 2019

Aside from all the lives it’s extinguished, the Assad regime has destroyed or damaged multiple UNESCO World Heritage sites across Syria. Why do archaeologists and professed heritage-lovers continue to laud it as a defender of civilization?

Nothing special

James Snell 26 October 2018

The departing UN special envoy to Syria was not merely feckless or naïve about the Assad regime; he was an active facilitator of its survival strategy.

In sight of Sochi

James Snell 25 September 2018

Though the pro-regime axis has its own reasons for wanting to avoid an Idlib offensive, there is ultimately no reason to think last week’s cessation of hostilities has any more chance of holding than its predecessors, argues James Snell.

The Rojava Reconquista

James Snell 17 August 2018

The “Syrian Democratic Council”—ostensibly a vehicle for Kurdish-Arab coexistence in former ISIS territories—is increasingly looking to normalize ties with the Assad regime, spelling disaster for the displaced residents of Raqqa and elsewhere, with no apparent opposition from its Western sponsors.

Refuge from the law

James Snell 27 July 2018

Work bans, endemic delays, and no translation assistance are just some of the extensive legal and bureaucratic obstacles faced by Syrian and other refugees seeking asylum in Britain. Al-Jumhuriya speaks to lawyers and civil society activists trying to help those trapped in legal limbo, in the UK and across Europe.

Syria’s decade of death

Terror’s wars of words

Stone cold

Nothing special

In sight of Sochi

The Rojava Reconquista

Refuge from the law

The coalition that could have been

Fair-weather friends

Facile talk

A platform for Syrians to own their discourse.

A platform for Syrians to own their discourse.