A Palestinian flag flutters in the wind during a pro-Palestinian encampment, advocating for financial disclosure and divestment from all companies tied to Israel and calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, inside Columbia University Campus on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in New York [AP Photo/Andres Kudacki] Universities in the United States have been especially repressive over the past year. Sever

Israel’s defence minister says the country aims to establish a “sterile defence zone” in southern Syria after Israeli forces seized territory and unleashed a wave of air strikes on the country following the removal of President Bashar al-Assad. Israeli troops in recent days have moved into the demilitarised zone inside Syria, including the Syrian side of the strategic Mount Hermon that overlooks D

During a lightning offensive to capture Syria, opposition fighters have freed thousands of people from a network of terrifying prisons that characterised the repressive al-Assad regime that they eventually ousted. Coming from the north, they took Aleppo first, then Hama, Homs and Damascus. Along the way, they busted open central prisons and reassured those stumbling out – frail and confused – that

Syria opposition forces have declared that the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad has come to an end, hours after fighters entered the capital, Damascus, following a lightning advance across the country. In a statement broadcast live on Syrian national television on Sunday, a group of fighters said the “tyrant al-Assad has been toppled” and that all prisoners have been freed from a major pr

Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun, 33, is survived by his wife, Alaa, and their seven children - the youngest of whom is a baby girl named Aline, who was born just a few weeks ago [GazaSoupKitchen via Instagram] It feels strange to grieve Chef Mahmoud. There is something about mourning a stranger that condemns their real self to obscurity. I hesitate to grieve a brother I never had, a laugh I never heard, se