Tag: syria
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Solidarity in Smoke – From Idlib to Gaza
The impacts of the genocide in Gaza in its impact on solidarity is monumental globally. The concept of solidarity and its manifestations are often discussed from a Western background. The images and videos of university encampments through America, spreading to the UK and Canada are fresh in people’s minds. Hundreds of protests with hundreds of…
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Massacres & Resistance in Idlib (2023)
October 6th. Assad begins his retaliatory attack against the Syrian rebels in Idlib following the Homs drone strike at the Homs Military Academy – killing 125 and leaving 277 injured. To many, Assad’s retaliation is a continuation of a consistent back and forth between the rebels and Assad, yet the recent bombardment of Idlib paints…
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The Assad Regime and Captagon Trade
Introduction Following crippling sanctions against the Syrian regime under Bashar Al-Assad, the world has seen a terrifying uptick in the manufacturing and distribution of captagon. Captagon is a synthetic drug that was produced in Bulgaria in the 1990s, and its popularity and manufacture soon found its home in the Middle East. While production was relatively…
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The Abandoned Iraqi – the Promise of “Baqia”
The Middle-East is often polemicized as an area embroiled in perpetual violence, with the orientalist sentiment “the Middle East has always been at war” unjustly imposed upon the people in this region. This narrative has persevered with the invasion of Iraq and the rise of the “Islamic” State of Iraq and Syria (hereinafter referred to…
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Syria – October (2023)
A brief timeline of events: 01/06/2023 – A suicide bombing in front of the General Directorate of Security building in Ankara. Two police officers injured. PKK claims responsibility. 05/06/2023 – The Turkish Armed Forces deploy troops and engages in aerial warfare against YPG – the Syrian branch of the PKK. 05/06/2023 – A series of…
Ghurkan Investigative Notes 