Image copyright SUWAYDA24/AFPImage caption Economic hardship has triggered rare anti-government protests in the southern city of Suweida Protesters are back on the streets in southern Syria, where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad started in 2011. They are not mass demonstrations, as they were back then, but the slogans are the same. The old grievances … Continue reading Syria war: Assad under pressure as economic crisis spirals