To no surprise, Bashar Assad runs for reelection in Syria
Syria s upcoming election has been criticized as a theatrical farce. Though there are five candidates in addition to the incumbent, international governments and the UN see no sign of a free and fair election.
55-year-old Bashar al-Assad announced on Wednesday that he will run for another term
As of Wednesday, three days have passed since Hammouda Sabbagh, the speaker of Syria s parliament, announced the date of the presidential election as May 26. After the official call, two men, Abdullah Salloum Abdullah and Mohammad Firas Yasin Rajjouh, as well as Faten Ali Nahar, a 50-year-old lawyer and the first female presidential candidate in Syria s history, joined the list of candidates. On Wednesday, Mohanad Nadim Shaaban and Mohammad Muwaffaq Sawwan announced their runs, as did the country s current president: Bashar al-Assad.
Denmark tells Syrian refugees to return to Damascus
Zero asylum seekers that is essentially the Danish government s ultimate goal. Now, it is ordering Syrian refugees to return to Damascus, which Copenhagen says is safe.
The Danish government wants to send refugee Aya Abo Daher, seen here with her high school principal, back to Syria
Aya Abo Daher had just graduated high school in the Danish town of Nyborg and was looking forward to celebrating the event with her friends at the end of June when she received an email from the Danish authorities that changed everything. The mail the Syrian student and her parents received stated that their residency permits would not be renewed.
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Syrian photographers document a decade of war
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has compiled moving documents of contemporary history with a collection of images by Syrian photographers who have recorded daily life in the ongoing war.
Searching for memories in the rubble of Raqqa
A woman pushes a stroller through the destroyed landscape of Raqqa in this photograph from 2019. I was shocked by what happened to my city, in which I have memories in every street, the photographer Abood Hamam says. They destroyed everything connected to our past and memory with our life in the city, every detail that used to connect me to it. It was so painful.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has compiled moving documents of contemporary history with a collection of images by Syrian photographers who have recorded daily life in the