Syria is set to hold parliamentary elections on Sunday for the first time since the fall of the country’s longtime autocratic leader Bashar al-Assad, who was unseated in a rebel offensive in December. CBC | World News
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Graffiti left on walls of Assad’s prisons expresses fears, loves of tormented Syrians
As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad’s prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry out. They plead to God and yearn for loved ones. Often mysterious, they preserve fragments of what anonymous men were thinking as they faced torture and death. CBC | World News
Read More »‘I haven’t seen the sun until today,’ says Syrian released from Assad’s prisons on day of execution
As insurgents swept across Syria in just 10 days, bringing an end to the Assad family’s 50-year rule, they broke into prisons and security facilities to free political prisoners and many of the tens of thousands of people who disappeared since the conflict began in 2011. CBC | World News
Read More »Assad’s plane ‘disappears’ while fleeing Syria sparking fears it’s been shot down
Fears have been shared over the fate of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as a plane has disappeared from flight tracking after he reportedly fled Damascus. Daily Express :: News Feed
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