Syria

This week, Syria’s new rulers were forced to backtrack, after proposed changes to the national education curriculum sparked concerns about ‘Islamisation’. 

With the Israel Gaza war reportedly on the brink of a ceasefire and Iran reeling after the devastation of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the Middle East could totally change in 2025.

Syria’s third city, Homs, was called ‘the capital of the revolution’ against the regime of Bashar al Assad.

Syria’s third city, Homs, was called ‘the capital of the revolution’ against the regime of Bashar al Assad.

The UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, addressed the Security Council earlier from Damascus where he met Syria’s new leadership.

The leader of Syria’s HTS rebel group has promised to disband the armed factions that toppled Bashar al Assad and unite them under the authority of the defence ministry. 

What chance is there of accountability for the Assad regime given the evidence being uncovered at Al-Qutayfa and elsewhere in Syria?

We spoke to Stephen Rapp, who served as the US ambassador at large for war crimes issues in the Office of Global criminal justice under President Obama.

We spoke to Mouaz Mustafa and asked how certain he was that his uncle was one of those buried in the mass graves of Al-Qutayfa.

His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.

The UN says humanitarian needs are growing in Syria – with thousands of people displaced across the country following the collapse of the regime.

All over Europe, governments have started to consider whether Syrians could be returned home – just days after the fall of the Assad regime.

We were joined by Dr Haid Haid, from the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the foreign affairs think tank, Chatham House.

It’s no coincidence that the forgotten war in Syria has suddenly reignited now.

Syrian and Russian jets have stepped up their airstrikes in northern Syria, trying to slow the advance of rebels who seized the city of Aleppo in a surprise offensive.