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December 19, 2024 | |

Unseen ‘Since the Nazis’: Syrians Uncover Mass Graves and Evidence of Assad Regime’s Atrocities

Hundreds of Thousands of Regime Victims Buried in Mass Graves: Human rights organizations are uncovering evidence of mass executions that occurred during the rule of ousted Syrian...

December 11, 2024 | Andrea Stricker |

Israel does world a service by hitting Assad’s chemical weapons caches

In the wake of the Assad regime’s collapse, Israel did the world a major service. Over the past few days, the Israeli Air Force struck dozens of alleged Syrian chemical weapons...

November 16, 2023 | |

French Court Issues International Arrest Warrant for Syria’s Assad

French judges issued an international arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad on November 15, citing his use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians. The court also issued warrants...

July 13, 2018 | John Hannah |

Putin Sees Trump as an Easy Mark on Syria

As U.S. President Donald Trump approaches his July 16 summit in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, there’s much speculation that Syria will be near the top of the agenda. Trump is repo...

April 26, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Belgium companies sold deadly chemicals to Assad in violation of sanctions

Antwerp’s Criminal Court has opened cases against three Flemish companies for the alleged violations of EU sanctions relating to the sale of illegal chemicals to the Syrian regime, accordin...

April 9, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Assad’s Horror, and Those Who Enable It

Horrific images from the aftermath of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria are once again circulating online. The scene of this gassing is the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus. Both the...

February 28, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Fear of US Sanctions Ends German Companies Fueling Iranian FM’s Plane

Energy and oil companies refused to refuel Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s airplane ahead of his trip to the Munich Security Conference in mid-February to avoid violations of US sanc...

February 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany Sold Technology to Iran for Use in Syrian Chemical Attacks

Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control approved a license for a company to sell military applicable technology to Iranian companies that subsequently was used in S...

April 26, 2017 | |

Syria Chemical Weapons Sanctions Send Clear Message

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday des...

April 20, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Syria’s chemical program: Rubio ‘gravely concerned’ about Iran & Russia complicity

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told Fox News he’s “gravely concerned” about Iran’s role in helping Syria develop its chemical warfare program that ended up killing dozens of peo...

April 17, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Iran Enables Syria’s Chemical Warfare Against Civilians

The 59 Tomahawk missiles the US fired at the Shayrat Air Base served to punish dictator Bashar Assad for his use of chemical weapons against civilians. The strikes on April 6 also helped...

August 15, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Syria Spillover: The Growing Threat of Terrorism and Sectarianism in the Middle East

Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, and distinguished members of the committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,it is a...

September 19, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Saudi Strategy in Syria

Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, issued a direct order earlier this month: “...

September 11, 2013 | Jonathan Kay |

Bombing Syria Would Be Bound to Backfire

The case for bombing Syria comes in two flavours — left and right. But they boil down to the same bad argument. Liberal interventionists echo Barack Obama’s declaration that...