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- Riccardo Cristiano 12 December 2024Yassin al-Haj Saleh, born in 1961, is one of Syria’s foremost intellectuals and a long-standing dissident against the Assad regime. He spent sixteen years in prison for “political reasons,” including time in the maximum-security facility of Tadmur, also known as Palmyra. With the onset of the Syrian Spring, he immediately emerged as an opponent of the regime.
- Hussein Ibish 10 December 2024The lightning victory of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in its stunningly successful offensive to unseat the more than 50-year-old Assad family-led Baathist dictatorship in Syria was highly reminiscent of the manner in which the Taliban pushed down the house of cards that was the nominal Afghan government when the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
- Luca Steinmann 14 April 2021As most Syrians stil grapple with a full-scale humanitarian crisis afer ten years of destruction, regional powers are competing to secure influence on the country’s reconstruction, and future balance.
- Mariano Giustino 23 January 2020Cold weather, inadequate healthcare and Daesh cells are all threatening the refugee camps where thousands of Kurds have been displaced after Turkey’s military offensive last October
- Mariano Giustino 13 November 2019With the US completely out of the scene, the military operation against the Kurds consolidates the two clear protagonists of the new Great Game: Turkey and Russia. The Kurdish question remains, once again, unanswered.
- Riccardo Cristiano 23 July 2018It is March 7th 2013. In a few short months Father Paolo Dall’Oglio will be taken prisoner by ISIS in Raqqa, right at the beginning of his mission to save others who had been kidnapped in Syria since 2011.
- Luca Steinmann 27 April 2018Maria Saadeh is a former independent member of the Syrian parliament (2012–2016). Nowadays she travels all over the world to represent Syrian civil society at public conferences. While in Milan, ResetDOC had the chance to interview her to find out more about her role as an observer and to get her take on the prospects for peace.
- 13 February 2015One year ago, a photograph of a tidal wave of humanity queuing for food, filling what remained of a street amid the ruins left by bombs, made its way around the world. Yarmouk became the symbol of the horrors of war in Syria. One of the many sieges, like those of Homs, Kobane, Aleppo and other cities and villages, in a conflict that is almost in its fifth year and has caused over 200,000 deaths, 7.6 million internal refugees and 3.2 million finding refuge abroad.
