Tag: Syria
Why the Islamic State group is ‘returning to its roots’ in the Syrian desert
Some of the remaining members of the Islamic State organisation – those who escaped death or imprisonment after losing their territory in 2019 – have made their way to Badia,…
Idlib, the last Islamist rebel bastion in Syria
SYRIA – FRANCE 24’s jihadism expert Wassim Nasr recently travelled to Idlib, the northwestern Syrian province controlled by the armed Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and a desired…
How ‘apolitical’ Western Youtubers help push Syrian propaganda
Their videos get huge amounts of clicks and profits on YouTube. And their vlogs show a Syria that has turned the page on years of civil war. But these so-called…
‘It used to be green, now it is hell’: How oil is poisoning northern Syria
Two funerals taking place side by side one afternoon along the banks of a slick-black river of oil is a stark reminder of the deadly impact pollution is having on…
Half of Syria has been displaced by war. Now record drought threatens millions more
There is a cruel irony to the village’s Arabic name, Um Gharqan,or “Mother of the drowned”, as it sits perched along the dusty ribcage of a dry river in northeast…