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Israeli military vehicles cross the fence to the buffer zone witrh Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 24: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with fellow Brics leaders pose for a family photo with new Bric members at the last day of the Brics summit fellow leaders president, Xi Jinping, China's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, Iranian president is Ebrahim Raisi, on the closing day of the BRICS summit at the Sandton Convention Center in the Sandton district of Johannesburg on August 24, 2023, South Africa. The Brics summit, held in South Africa between 22-24 August 2023. Brics is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. New Members are Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia. Some of the things are discussed during the summit is if to expand Brics and accept new members like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and a Brics currency. Vladimir Putin wanted to attend the meetings but South African president Cyril Ramaphosa managed to talk him out of it, as he risked being arrested while in in South Africa, as the ICC, International Criminal Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Mr. Putin's on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

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Algerian security surround protesters during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 11, 2019, ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for December 12. Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the vast gap between youth at the heart of a reformist protest movement and an ageing elite they see as clinging to power. The poll will see five candidates, all linked to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office. But protesters, whose mass mobilisation forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to say sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)

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'It Was Annihilation.' Victims of Assad's Chemical Attacks Can Finally Speak Out

December 19, 2024

Algerian security surround protesters during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 11, 2019, ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for December 12. Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the vast gap between youth at the heart of a reformist protest movement and an ageing elite they see as clinging to power. The poll will see five candidates, all linked to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office. But protesters, whose mass mobilisation forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to say sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)

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'Freed From Assad,' Syrians Rejoice While Wary of What Comes Next

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'It Was Annihilation.' Victims of Assad's Chemical Attacks Can Finally Speak Out

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Israeli military vehicles cross the fence to the buffer zone witrh Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

What the Collapse of the Assad Regime Means for Israel

December 13, 2024

Mourners attend the funeral of Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada (portrait), whose body was found recently, in the capital Damascus on December 12, 2024. Hamada's body was found in Harasta Hospital after Syrian rebels took control of Damascus in a lightning advance. Hamada, who was first imprisoned for participating in anti-government protests in 2011, fled to Europe in 2014 and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where he publicly testified about the abuse and torture he had suffered. In 2020, he unexpectedly returned to Syria, where he was arrested again upon arrival and subsequently disappeared. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)

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Syrians Are Finally Free From the Prison of the Assad Regime

December 12, 2024

A defaced portrait of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad stands above a ransacked government security facility, in Damascus, on December 8, 2024. Islamist-led rebels declared on December 8, that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Rami al SAYED / AFP)

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Assad's Road to Moscow

December 11, 2024

A defaced portrait of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad stands in a ransacked government security facility, in Damascus, on December 8, 2024. Islamist-led rebels declared on December 8, that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Rami al SAYED / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

The End of Assad's Kingdom of Fear in Syria

December 10, 2024

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - DECEMBER 08: Syrians celebrate the collapse of 61 years of Baath Party rule in Damascus, Syria on December 08, 2024. Sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapsed on Sunday when, the capital fell out of the hands of regime control. As anti-regime armed groups started to dominate the capital, the Assad regime on Sunday morning quickly lost all control of Damascus. (Photo by Bekir Kasim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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December 8, 2024

A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

December 2, 2024

Syrian Red Crescent rescuers attend to displaced people arriving from Lebanon at the Jdeidat Yabus border crossing in southwestern Syria on October 7, 2024. The head of the UN refugee agency warned on October 6 that civilians in Lebanon were caught in the crossfire as Israel's intensified bombardment campaign forced many to flee while others were trapped under fire. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

There Are No 'Safe Zones' in Syria for Refugees Forced to Return Home

October 18, 2024

on February 1, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian army has said it will not fire on protestors as they gather in large numbers in central Cairo.

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Why There Is Still Hope For Democratic Liberalism in the Arab World

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