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Egypt frees rights activist after Sisi pardon
AFP, Published on 23/09/2025
» CAIRO - Prominent Egyptian-British human rights defender Alaa Abdel Fattah was released from prison after years behind bars and reunited with his family in an emotional celebration following a long-awaited pardon by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
'Like a dream': AFP photographer's return to Syria
AFP, Published on 25/12/2024
» DOUMA (SYRIA) - AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a tunnel seven years ago after it was besieged by Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Syrian medics say were coerced into false chemical attack testimony
AFP, Published on 24/12/2024
» DOUMA (SYRIA) - Two Syrian doctors and a nurse told AFP in a series of interviews over the weekend that Bashar al-Assad's government coerced them into providing false testimony to international investigators after a deadly 2018 chlorine attack.
Huge illegal drug lab exposed in Syria
Published on 13/12/2024
» DOUMA - The industrial-scale drug lab sat just up a hill from a main road on the western edge of Damascus, the city that was the seat of power for the Assad family which long denied any links to the narcotics trade.
Syria blamed for 2018 chlorine attack
AFP, Published on 27/01/2023
» THE HAGUE: The global chemical weapons watchdog blamed Syria on Friday for a 2018 chlorine attack that killed 43 people, in a long-awaited report on a case that sparked tensions between Damascus and the West.
Timeline: Ten years of war in Syria
AFP, Published on 15/03/2021
» PARIS: Syria's decade-long war has left more than 380,000 people dead and forced millions into exile.
Arab Spring: How the West missed a date with history
AFP, Published on 07/12/2020
» PARIS: Ten years ago, as protests flared across the Arab world, Western governments failed to meet a date with destiny and help nurture dreams of democracy, missing an unprecedented chance to shape real reform.
Watchdog blames Syria for chemical weapons attacks
AFP, Published on 09/04/2020
» THE HAGUE - The global chemical weapons watchdog on Wednesday for the first time explicitly blamed Syria for toxic attacks, saying President Bashar al-Assad's air force used the nerve gas sarin and chlorine three times in 2017.
Chlorine used in attack on Syria's Douma: watchdog
AFP, Published on 02/03/2019
» THE HAGUE - Chlorine was used in a deadly attack on the Syrian town of Douma in 2018, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said Friday in a long-awaited final report on the incident.
Moscow to summon Dutch envoy over cyber-attack claim: agencies
AFP, Published on 08/10/2018
» MOSCOW - The Russian foreign ministry was to summon the Dutch ambassador on Monday after the Netherlands said it had foiled a cyber attack by Russians, state news agencies reported.