The World

25.December 2023. BG

"Cocaine for the poor": Drugs from Syria are increasingly arriving in Europe

Captagon was created as a medicine a long time ago, but it was also banned a long time ago. It is a favorite in Syria, where soldiers use it before combat. Syria is believed to support the production and distribution around the world, in order to obtain fresh money. Now a larger quantity has been seized in Germany as well

The World

19.February 2023. S.Ć.

Damascus: Israel's deadliest attack on the Syrian capital

The Syrian Ministry of Defense confirmed the air strike on Damascus and blamed Israel for the attack. Syrian state media reports that five have been killed, while reports from Western agencies put the number at fifteen. A building in the neighborhood where several state security agencies are located was heavily damaged

The Syrian entanglement of Turkey, Russia and the Kurds

23.November 2022. Dragan Bisenic

Three enemy enclaves

The Syrian crisis remains a kind of bleeding wound in the Middle East. Syria, which was artificially created by the French after the First World War on parts of the Ottoman Empire, today has split into three hostile enclaves: Arab-Sunni, Arab-Alawite and Kurdish. Bashar al-Assad, with the military support of Iran and the Russian Federation, controls two-thirds of the country's territory, where only a third of its pre-war population lives. Most Syrians were not with Assad. About eight million live in neighboring countries in refugee camps, four to five million in territories occupied by Turkey and four million in the northeast of the country, in the Kurdish region of Rojava and the Euphrates basin.