par This Is Beirut, 12/03 14:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Assad Switzerland Syria This is Beirut war crimes
Switzerland's Attorney General announced on Tuesday that Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, will stand trial in Switzerland for alleged crimes. Accusations include ordering homicides, torture and illegal detentions. Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, will stand trial in Switzerland ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/03 22:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Assad Drug Smuggling Drugs sanctions Syria This is Beirut US sanctions
The US Treasury Department sanctioned 11 people and companies on Tuesday it said were involved in illicit financial transfers and drug smuggling in support of the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Many of those sanctioned were involved in the trade of the highly addictive amphetamine captagon, which is illegally trafficked ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/04 15:44 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Syria has avoided getting embroiled in the Gaza war, experts said, despite a strike on Iran's Damascus consulate, blamed on Israel, that threatened to ignite a regional conflagration. The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seeking to strike a delicate balancing act between Russia and Iran, which have propped it up during 13 years ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/06 13:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Daesh fighters have killed nearly 4,100 people in Syria since 2019 when the jihadists lost their last stronghold in the country, a war monitor said Saturday. Daesh overran large swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a so-called caliphate and launching a reign of terror in June of that year. In March 2019, the jihadist group lost its ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/07 15:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he might invite his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to Turkey "at any moment," in a sign of reconciliation after the 2011 war broke ties between Ankara and Damascus. "We may send an invitation (to Assad) at any moment," Erdogan told journalists aboard a plane from Berlin, where he watched Euro ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/07 12:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Syrian defense ministry said an Israeli strike caused damage but no casualties near the Mediterranean coastal city of Baniyas on Tuesday. "At approximately 12:20 am (2120 GMT) the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea... targeting a site near the city of Baniyas," the defense ministry ...
par This Is Beirut, 25/07 11:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Vladimir Putin met Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss what the Russian leader described as an "escalation" in the Middle East, images on television showed Thursday. The meeting late Wednesday comes at a time when Russia, which saved Assad's government through its military intervention in 2015 during a civil war, could mediate ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/08 13:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Assad Human Rights Refugees Syria
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) published a report on Thursday, accusing the Syrian regime of killing at least 43 people through torture and arresting at least 756 civilians. The SNHR found that the Syrian regime has significantly increased its targeting of citizens, as well as refugees and returnees in the areas under its ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/09 19:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Six people were wounded when a roadside blast hit a convoy transporting local officials including the governor in Syria's southern Daraa province on Wednesday, the interior ministry said. "Six people were lightly wounded" when a roadside "explosive device planted by a terrorist group" went off while the local officials were returning "from a work ...
