The horrible price of every news story you ve ever read on Syria
Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Turkish military vehicle, during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol near the town of Al Muabbadah in the northeastern part of Hassakah in 2019. AFP
A member of the Khabour Guards (MNK) Assyrian Syrian militia, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), walks in the ruins of the Assyrian Church of the Virgin Mary, which was previously destroyed by ISIS. AFP
Kamal, the father of an eight-year-old girl who was fatally wounded along with his son Hamed (sitting at left on background), cries while being treated in a local hospital in a rebel-controlled area of Aleppo in 2012. AFP
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The removal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ankle tag by Iranian authorities last week should have given the British-Iranian charity worker and her family joy, relief and hope. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran in April 2016. Her five-year prison sentence on highly suspect charges of plotting to overthrow the country’s regime – charges she has consistently denied and the details of which have yet to be made public – was completed last week. By now she should have been free to leave Iran and rejoin her husband and six-year-old daughter in the UK.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe is scheduled to appear in court to confront allegations that will no doubt be as trumped-up as the ones that saw her arrested five years ago. Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, was not even sure if a new trial would happen at all – such is Tehran’s unpredictable nature.
Money alone can t buy the rebuilding of Syria
People remove belongings from a damaged site after an air strike Sunday in the rebel-held besieged Al Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria on October 17, 2016. Reuters
Civil Defence members inspect a damaged site after an airstrike in the besieged rebel-held Al Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria on October 14, 2016. Reuters
A youth inspects a damaged site after an air strike in the besieged rebel-held Al Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria on October 14, 2016. Reuters
A general view taken with a drone shows damaged buildings in a rebel-held area of Aleppo, Syria, on October 13, 2016. Reuters
Men inspect a site damaged after an air strike in the rebel-held Al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria on October 11, 2016. Reuters