Tag: Syria
Paris violates the Convention against Torture
This is information from the French newspaper Release. The UN Committee against Torture condemns France for not having repatriated dozens of French families detained in Kurdish camps in Syria, families…
“At the time, I was in a utopia”
It is a rare word heard this Friday, January 20, the specially composed Assize Court of Paris. Jonathan Geffroy is being prosecuted for “terrorist criminal association for having joined Syria…
Arrest in the Netherlands of a former leader of the Islamic State group
Dutch police have arrested a Syrian refugee in the Netherlands, suspected of having played an important role within Daesh and Jabhat al-Nusra, in particular in the “camp” of Yarmouk south…
Former Toulouse jihadist Jonathan Geffroy before the special assize court in Paris
Since his arrest in 2017 with his wife, Jonathan Geffroy has provided a lot of information to investigators on his career within the Islamic State organization but also on the…
Syria: how Bashar El-Assad is preparing his comeback on a field of ruins and corpses
Step by step, in the still smoking ruins of Syria, Bashar El-Assad traces his path, without worrying about the corpses on the side. After twelve years of war, more than…
“Syria beyond the war”, by Manon-Nour Tannous
“We must take an interest in Syria, beyond the crises, to stop making its society invisible”, explains the researcher Manon-Nour Tannous who signs this book, so each chapter makes it…
UN’s ‘Syria’ decision: It will be made through Turkey! Term extended for another 6 months
Breaking news: The United Nations (UN) Security Council extended the decision allowing the use of the Cilvegözü Border Gate in Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to northwest Syria for another…
One hundred IS fighters are said to have been arrested in Syria
It is the Kurdish-dominated SDF alliance (Syrian Democratic Forces) which, according to its own statement, carried out an eight-day long operation against the jihadist organization IS in eastern and northern…
deadly Israeli strikes on Damascus International Airport
Damascus International Airport was put out of service this Monday, January 2 for a few hours by Israeli strikes, which killed four people, including two Syrian soldiers, according to the…
Meeting between Turkish and Syrian Defense Ministers in Moscow, a first since 2011
This is a milestone in the Turkish-Syrian rapprochement that Russia has been promoting covertly for several years, and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been publicly calling for since…