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2 weeks ago | 
liberation.fr | Muhammad Haj Kadour |Laurence Defranoux
Vestiges explosifsQuatre mois après le renversement du régime de Bachar al-Assad, le retour tant attendu des Syriens sur leurs terres peut tourner au cauchemar. L’ONG Human Rights Watch (HRW), qui publie un rapport sur la question ce mardi 8 avril, appelle le gouvernement de transition à «assurer de toute urgence le recensement et le déminage des mines terrestres et des restes explosifs de guerre, ainsi que la sécurisation des stocks d’armes abandonnés».
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Muhammad Haj Kadour |Raja Abdulrahim
The rebels who are now Syria's de facto rulers have started to make their mark on the country's government. They took control of Aleppo just two weeks ago, but already police officers are in the streets sporting new uniforms, administrators are busy in the halls of government and there are posters on lampposts with QR codes directing people to updates on government policy.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
islandernews.com | Muhammad Haj Kadour
Men just freed from prison dance at the entrance to Aleppo -- the Assad system of rule relied on a brutal complex of detention centres
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Muhammad Haj Kadour |Raja Abdulrahim
SARAQIB, Syria — When Abdo Bakri returned to his hometown in northwestern Syria on Saturday after more than five years roaming the area in search of safe shelter for his family during the country’s civil war, he did not know what he would find.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Christina Goldbaum |Raja Abdulrahim |Muhammad Haj Kadour
Crowds descended on a prison on the outskirts of Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Monday, desperate to learn the fate of friends and relatives detained at a place that symbolized terror and death under the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Some hailed taxis or waited for buses from the city to the prison, Sednaya, which opened over the weekend as Mr. al-Assad fell. Others packed into cars, inching through traffic.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Raja Abdulrahim |Muhammad Haj Kadour
As rebels swept through towns and cities across Syria on their push to the capital, Damascus, displaced people followed close behind. Roads and highways where tanks and armored vehicles had driven just a day earlier were packed with bumper-to-bumper traffic on Monday as thousands of Syrians who had been displaced inside their country for years tried to get back home. They drove in cars and trucks piled high with the belongings they had accumulated - mattresses, and bags of clothes and blankets.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Vivian Yee |Raja Abdulrahim |Muhammad Haj Kadour
For nearly all the years that the Assad family ruled Syria, silence reigned. No one spoke freely, fearful of who might hear. Everyone knew the consequences of dissent: disappearance into government prisons, from which few ever returned. But as Saturday turned to Sunday — the first day in more than five decades that dawn broke without an Assad in the presidential palace — the streets were loud with joy.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Vivian Yee |Raja Abdulrahim |Muhammad Haj Kadour
Even as many Syrians celebrated the rebels' advance into Damascus on Sunday morning, they were reminded of all they had lost over 13 years of civil war. The loved ones who were killed, tortured or disappeared into the regime's labyrinthine prison system. The homes they lost to airstrikes and shelling. The lives they had to abandon. "Thank God, thank God," said Eman Ouad, whose husband was killed in the civil war. Her voice was close to breaking.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
wfft.com | Muhammad Haj Kadour
(CNN) - Syrian opposition forces claim to have taken control of Daraa city in southwestern S...
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
the-messenger.com | Muhammad Haj Kadour
The image is particularly symbolic: A statue of former President Hafez al-Assad, the father of Syria's current ruler Bashar, was toppled in Hama after Islamist-led rebels overran the country's fourth-largest city, video authenticated by AFP showed.
