Farewell to Smithfield – how past, present, commerce and culture collide in London’s 900-year-old meat market
Many fear Smithfield’s special sense of place will be lost once the meat market is gone. But could a new emerging cultural ...
Syria's New Leaders Turn to Islamic Law in Effort to Rebuild Assad's Police
Syria's de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has sought to reassure Western officials and Middle Eastern governments worried ...
Insight: Syria's new leaders turn to Islamic law in effort to rebuild Assad's police
Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...
On the road with Syria’s new ‘terrorist’ leaders
HTS’s security force claimed that it had foiled a huge car bomb attack by the group on the sensitive Shia shrine of Sayeda ...
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‘This Is the Room Where My Sister and Mother Died’: The Heartbreaking Return Home for Syrians After Assad Was Overthrown
In a room of his house, destroyed by a Russian bomb, Nasser, a young HTS soldier recently returned from exile, feeds a small ...
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Palestinian refugees in Syria's Yarmouk camp reflect on shared suffering after Gaza ceasefire
Gaza The smell of paint lingers in the air, a wall still tacky from its application. In the Palestinian neighbourhood of ...
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Postcard from Irbid: Urban sprawl masks archaeological gems in Jordan’s northern city
Pausing for directions in Irbid, Jordan’s third city, can turn into a protracted process. Once it becomes clear that the ...
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HTS raids and forced disappearances fuel fear in Syria’s Alawi heartlands
In Zahra, an Alawi neighbourhood on the outskirts of Homs in western Syria, an unspoken, organic curfew has taken hold since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. With the rise to power of Hay'at Tahrir ...