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Turkey recently began evacuating its observation post at Al-Eis in northern Syria following prolonged attacks in the region by Russian-backed regime forces. (AFP/File Photo) Turkey…

Ten years after Arabs mobilised in their millions, we take a retrospective look at the media’s role and the damage that has been done to journalism since. The wave of revolutions that came to be known as the Arab Spring…

Oman’s growing influence in Syria could make it an increasingly important diplomatic actor there, though the Sultanate must tread carefully. The Sultanate of Oman has long held a strategy of maintaining diplomatic…

When Allam Jebbo and his wife Fatima El Hussein fled Syria for Canada via Lebanon, they had one thing in their minds: moving to a safe place where their children could go to school. The family was sponsored by the Canadian government after…

Thank you very much indeed, Mr. President. I will focus today on five areas: first, COVID-19; second, the humanitarian impact of the economic crisis; third, protection of civilians; fourth, humanitarian access; and lastly, our…

As the end of another year of war looms, “families in Syria remain without respite after almost a decade of conflict”, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Wednesday. Speaking…

“One day, we’ll go, and you’ll see for yourselves,” my father told us. His thin bottom lip sucked up, almost in a pout, and his eyes stared across an ocean and a sea. We were seated on the living room floor of a small Côte-Saint-Luc…

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia on 25 November 2020 The United States has accused Russia of being responsible for destabilising the Mediterranean region, saying that it has worked to undermine…

It’s all been erased so completely, so much blood has been shed and destruction wreaked over the past decade. The idea that there was a moment when millions across the Middle East wanted freedom and change so much that they took…

From armed conflict to an "even tougher" economic war, which caused "a further lack of resources and raw materials". Covid-19 makes life even more difficult than before, but the faithful are always "numerous at Mass". The Pope in Iraq…