Syria

US launches missile strike in response to Assad’s chemical attack

Editor 5 Min Read

The United States has fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase controlled by the Assad Regime. This is the first direct military strike the US has taken against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the

Chemical Attack in Syria: what “red line”?

Mukhtar Master 7 Min Read

The footage was extremely difficult to watch; images of men, women and small children writhing in agony, gasping for air and in the last throes of their lives. They were deprived of

Shocking report exposes secret “Human Slaughterhouse”

Dr. Salman Butt 12 Min Read

Today Amnesty International has published a harrowing 48-page report, exposing the “cold-blooded killing of thousands of defenceless prisoners” secretly and systematically in just one particular Syrian government jail called Saydnaya. An estimated

Virtual Reality Refugees

Hanan Abdel-Khalek 8 Min Read

Meet the man bringing the issue of immigration detention centres in the UK to the world’s attention through virtual reality film. On a microscopic level, I introduce Darren Emerson, the innovative Director,

The “Betrayal” of Turkey

Ahmed Hammuda 15 Min Read

Has Turkey betrayed Syria? The fall of the ‘revolutionary heartland’, the City of Aleppo, spurred arguably more attention than nearly six years of the Syrian crisis. People took to social media, engaged

#AleppoIsDying – “What Use is Protesting?”

Fahad Ansari 8 Min Read

I have seen many comments and messages from people questioning the point of petitions, demonstrations, lobbying campaigns and even prayer to try and stop the ongoing genocide in Aleppo. People are frustrated