Um memorando de entendimento entre EUA e Irã, assinado após um conflito militar, prevê o fim da guerra no Líbano e a suspensão de sanções americanas em troca da reabertura do Estreito de Ormuz. A decisão, vista como um erro de política externa por críticos, pode impactar a carreira de Netanyahu e fortalecer o regime iraniano.
Três ou quatro células iraquianas compostas por combatentes de elite xiitas lançaram ataques com drones contra Kuwait, Arábia Saudita e Emirados Árabes Unidos entre abril e maio. Os grupos operam sob o controle direto da Guarda Revolucionária Iraniana (IRGC), refletindo uma mudança tática do Irã para projetar força regionalmente em meio a recursos esgotados e enfraquecimento de aliados.
A Syrian man, identified as Rafiq al Q, has been sentenced to 26 years in prison by a Dutch court for crimes against humanity, including torture and rape of detainees in Syria between 2013-2014. This marks the first conviction in the Netherlands for Assad-era atrocities and the first time a Dutch court has convicted an individual of sexual violence as a crime against humanity.
A Dutch court sentenced a Syrian man, Rafik A, to 26 years for crimes against humanity, including torture and rape of prisoners while working as an interrogator for the Assad regime in 2013-2014. The sentence is part of a series of cases in European courts using universal jurisdiction.
Syria's National Commission for Missing Persons concludes with high certainty that the six children of Dr. Rania al-Abbasi, missing since 2013 under Assad's rule, are deceased, based on verified evidence and video recordings from a 2013 massacre in Damascus.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree offering a bonus of 9,000 Syrian pounds per ton of wheat delivered to the government, following farmer protests against the official purchase price.
Displaced Kurdish families live in a school turned shelter in Qamishli, Syria, after being uprooted multiple times following Assad's fall. A U.S.-brokered ceasefire handed control to Syrian government forces, prompting accusations that Washington abandoned Kurdish allies who fought ISIS alongside U.S. troops. Families describe harsh conditions with no fuel for cooking, and some remain searching for missing relatives including a 15-year-old girl killed in fighting.
Syria's first public trial of officials linked to former President Bashar al-Assad opened in Damascus, with Atef Najib, a former brigadier general and cousin of Assad, facing charges related to crimes against the Syrian people. Najib headed the Political Security Branch in Daraa province in 2011 when teenagers were arrested and tortured for anti-government graffiti, an event that catalyzed mass protests and sparked the 14-year civil war ending with Assad's ousting in December 2024.
