Joshua Landis

Turkey is pushing super hard for Mazlum to make concessions. Mazlum's position is that he wont give anything for nothing, which is what Damascus is pretty much offering in his eyes. The French are working hard on a compromise and hoping that something can be announced by way of…

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📍#Tartous: The death of a Young Alawite in a New Sectarian Attack Local sources reported that three young men from the village of Karto in the Akkar Plain, Tartous Governorate, were attacked while returning to their village at the Karto junction, where they were stopped at a…

Posters in Damascus were pasted on shop doors reading: “Barbarism doesn’t represent us… We are the people of Damascus, and we send all our love and apologies to our brothers and sisters in Suwayda. Suwayda is an integral part of this country and of its soul.” مناشير في دمشق…

U.K., Turkey Sign Preliminary Deal for Eurofighter Typhoon Fighter Jets, years after failing to get the F35 wsj.com/world/europe/u… via @WSJ

Turkey’s Defense Ministry says the Syrian government has officially requested support to boost its military capacity and fight terrorist groups, including ISIS. In response, Ankara is moving to provide training, advisory, and technical assistance. t24.com.tr/haber/msb-suri…

Grief Gentrifiers In both sectarian-driven massacres of the Alawites in March and the Druze today, two moments stand out: Um Ayman, the Alawite mother whose sons lay dead at her feet as she was mocked in her grief and told that every Alawite would be stomped on, and Abu We’am,…

Syrian government forces have been accused of killing dozens of people in a massacre at a hospital in the southern city of Suweida, following sectarian clashes which erupted in recent days - BBC

Dareen and Areen Suleiman, who were kidnapped 2 months ago in Masyaf area, have been released and were accompanied by Jolani security forces and are now back home ❤️

DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will organise a Saudi-Syrian investment forum in Damascus, aimed at exploring the potential for cooperation and signing deals that should promote sustainable development, the Saudi Investment Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

Yes, this American citizen is our family member and my best friend — Hosam Saraya. He was executed in cold blood by government security forces, alongside his brother, father, uncles, and cousins. Their home was raided, looted, and their cars stolen. We learned of this heinous…

Good thread 🧵 by @timourazhari on the #Syria Gov report on the March massacres on the coast in which close to 2,000 #Alawites were killed.

Chronology as per committee: March 6, organized attacks in coastal region on government forces left 238 from security forces dead, put hospitals and other institutions out of service and resulted in many areas falling out of government control. Some 265 suspected Assad remnants…

In all its work over months, the committee did not receive a single report of a Syrian woman being kidnaped, head of fact-finding committee Jumaa Al-Anzi said.

BREAKING - Killings of Alawites in March, "though widespread, were not organized" , spokesperson for Syrian investigative committee says, citing final report. Found most killings driven by revenge, not ideological reasons. Committee able to identify 1,426 dead, most…

With a broken heart, we say goodbye to my cousin, Dr. Firas Abu Latif, a kind and brilliant Syrian-French academic.He was found murdered and burned in his home in As-Suwayda, after a violent raid by forces from the “Ministry of Defense”and “General Security Directorate 1-2 #syria

SYRIA: Last week, attacks on Druze-majority Suwayda killed over 1,000 — with help from government forces. How does the new constitution promote government accountability? It doesn't. @joshua_landis breaks down how President al-Sharaa holds total power: youtube.com/live/zNMDCULlW…