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John Rossomando

John Rossomando

Defense and national security analyst and author of "The Arab Spring Ruse: How the Muslim brotherhood duped Washington in Libya and Syria"

U.N.: Says Syrian Forces Likely Committed ‘War Crimes’ Against Alawites

A U.N. Human Rights Council report should put the brakes on normalization with the Islamist regime in Syria A U.N. Human Rights Council report from August 11 should put the brakes on normalization with the Islamist regime in Syria. Reuters found that 1,479 Alawites were brutally murdered in the jihadist rampage last March in the […]

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A New Caliphate Is Rising in Syria—And the West Is Silent

Editorial examining the rise of HTS and western silence on jihadist rule in Syria In December 2024, Syria’s longtime dictator Bashar alAssad finally fell — a moment hailed in the West as the end of tyranny in Damascus. But what followed was not liberation. It was the rise of something far more dangerous: Hay’at Tahrir […]

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Rami Abd al-Rahman

Rami Abd al-Rahman

Director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and leading documentarian of Syria's ongoing humanitarian crisis. Based in Coventry, England, Rami has spent over a decade meticulously documenting human rights violations across Syria through an extensive network of sources. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, founded in 2006, has become one of the most cited sources for casualty figures and human rights documentation during the Syrian conflict.

A Storm of Denial and Violence: The Syrian Observatory Accuses the Regime of War Crimes and a Media Blackout in As-Suwayda

In a powerful and damning statement, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has accused the Syrian regime’s official media of distorting the truth regarding the violation of the ceasefire in As-Suwayda. In a powerful and damning statement, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has accused the Syrian regime’s official […]

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John Rossomando

John Rossomando

Defense and national security analyst and author of "The Arab Spring Ruse: How the Muslim brotherhood duped Washington in Libya and Syria"

Can Syria’s President Be Trusted?

An analysis of Syria’s new leadership and the credibility of their claimed moderation Since the jihadi massacre in Sweida in July and early August and the genocidal mass killings of Alawites and Christians before that in March, the landscape of the Syrian internal conflict has shifted. The post-Assad attempt to stabilize the country shifted to […]

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