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The layers of crime in Afrin

Orwa Khalife 31 March 2023

Around this time five years ago, the Turkish government announced the end of Operation Olive Branch in the Afrin district of northwest Syria.

Grave atrocities

Orwa Khalife 21 September 2020

The testimony delivered last month in a court in Germany’s Koblenz by the man who has come to be known as the “gravedigger”

Syria’s parliamentary appointments

Orwa Khalife 20 July 2020

Ever since the Assad family seized power in Syria almost fifty years ago, the national parliament has been reduced to an object of

Chemical crime and no punishment

Orwa Khalife 22 April 2020

Earlier this month, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that its new Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) had completed

Army of scam

Orwa Khalife 9 December 2019

[Editor’s note: Last week, a former spokesman of the Syrian “Army of Islam” militia was arrested in Marseilles, France, on war crimes charges.

A festival of inanity

Orwa Khalife 4 November 2019

Last Wednesday, the Syrian “Constitutional Committee” gathered for the first time to hold its inaugural meeting in Geneva. After an opening statement by

Russia’s chemical witness intimidation

Orwa Khalife 21 March 2019

Last month, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) published a report confirming the use of a “toxic chemical contain[ing] reactive

Samer Foz, Assad’s new favorite handyman

Orwa Khalife 19 November 2018

How do you kill a man in Turkey and get out of prison? Do business with both Islamic State jihadists and the Kurds?

The curious case of Idlib’s “extremists”

Orwa Khalife 15 October 2018

Ever since Turkey and Russia reached an agreement in the city of Sochi last month on averting a military offensive in Syria’s Idlib,

The Tehran summit: Finalizing Syria’s tripartite tutelage

Orwa Khalife 5 September 2018

All eyes in the region are on Friday’s tripartite summit bringing together the Turkish, Russian, and Iranian presidents in Tehran, which is expected