"Removing #Syria’s designation is not a concession. It is an overdue recognition that the facts have changed & that US policy should change with them." My latest with lawyer John Balouziyeh on how @SecRubio must remove the outdated & unjustified SST: lawfaremedia.org/article/syr…

It's official -- #Turkiye & #Saudi have signed an agreement to begin planning an expansion of the [to be rehabilitated] Hejaz Railway into #Saudi & then the Gulf. In practice, it'll connect Gulf waters with ports in #Turkiye -- via #Saudi, #Jordan & #Syria.

medieval Muslims were obsessed with the symmetry and beauty of the Moon and left behind one of the most advanced records of its motion of the and phases which had a substantial influence on astronomy. Here’s one of my favorite diagrams from the famed 11th c polymath al-Biruni

Heartbreaking to hear confirmation that #Syrian dentist & chess player Rania al-Abassi was murdered by #Assad’s regime along with her husband & 6 children, aged 2-14. Her husband died by torture (confirmed in #Caesar files). Rania & the kids were murdered for Rania’s aid work.

Hāhona Ormsby, a New Zealand citizen and Gaza flotilla activist, said an Israeli soldier detaining him told him: “I’m a crazy MF. I’m going to hurt you every minute you’re with me.” Over roughly two hours, he said the soldier largely kept that promise: punching him repeatedly, knocking him unconscious, and running his head into a wall during a strip search. Ormsby said the soldier approached him naked with a taser, stating he would taser his genitals. A second man, not in uniform, intervened, before the soldier struck him in the genitals instead. Ormsby said he was urinating blood that night. He also described having his cable-tied hands placed over a chair while the soldier punched him in the stomach and kneed him in the back, aggravating a prior spinal fusion injury. Source: @NZStuff on IG (link in reply).

#Syria: one of Assad's most closely guarded secrets has finally been uncovered - the clandestine chemical weapons and related facilities. Storage equipment and hexamine, used in ​sarin production, raw materials & over 70 munitions (incl. aerial bombs) were discovered after months of tracking. Sites are located on the Coast and center of the country (covered by Homs province). According to the OPCW, 18 Regime figures linked to this program, incl. high-ranking Officials, were arrested.

#Syria's gov't & the @OPCW have discovered 70 #Assad regime chemical weapons rockets & aerial bombs, as well as Sarin nerve agent ingredients in #Syria's Coast & central areas of #Hama/#Homs. 18 suspects were arrested. A huge step forward.

Yup.

Who said Germans weren’t funny?

WOW A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves. One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did. An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY. Link: genocide.live Direct Link: experience.arcgis.com/experi…

Gaza 2026.

Sounds like Israel is getting ready to bomb some churches.

3rd generation Jewish New Yorker here. We’re thrilled!

RT @MahmoudMassri15: We will never forget how this young man tried to save his mother, dragging her in the most basic way—until an Israeli…

For the 1st time in history, #Syria has been invited to attend the G7 Summit -- scheduled for June in #France. President Ahmed al-Sharaa will participate. On Monday, #Syria's Finance Minister participated in the G7 Finance Summit -- another sign of #Syria's new global role.

This is the new map of Gaza. Nearly 2 million people — most of them displaced — are now crammed into just 133 square kilometers. That is nearly 15,000 people per km².

I really need people to pay attention to how insane this is.

This man, Amin Abdullah, saved up to 140 children at the Islamic center school in San Diego 🙏RIP

Israel killed every single child in this photo today in Deir Qanoun Al-Nahr, South Lebanon. Every. Single. One. 6 children. Murdered, alongside their parents.

JFC