[It's] an indicator of the continued activity of its cells and its ability to reorganize its ranks and exploit any security vacuum to cause field breaches.

Despite more than 7 years passing since [ISIS] lost geographical control, it still possesses security and military capabilities that allow it to carry out sporadic attacks that threaten stability in the region

It also pointed out that "this threat is particularly evident in Deir ez-Zor Governorate," saying that "the methods of attacks have varied between bombings, ambushes, and assassinations, reflecting that the organization is repositioning itself and has not been completely eliminated — SOHR

Namir al-Assad is accused of being one of the gangsters who committed several crimes during the era of the defunct Assad regime and was languishing in Sednaya prison, but he was released after the prisons were opened on December 8 — SOHR

'Of course, we do have a historical relationship with the Palestinians and will help them [as necessary]'

This is how the bodies of Gaza prisoners were returned to us:

– Bound, blindfolded, and bearing brutal signs of torture and burns that expose the scale of crimes committed in the dark.

– These were not people buried underground, but detainees kept for months in the occupation’s refrigerators — their innocent bodies left as testimony to the torturers’ savagery.

– They did not die a natural death; they were executed after being tied up.

This is a fully fledged war crime that demands an urgent international investigation and holding the perpetrators accountable before international justice — Gazan Ministry of Health director Dr. Munir al-Barsh

Under a deal discussed between a senior U.S. official and Mr. Maduro’s top aides, the Venezuelan strongman offered to open up all existing and future oil and gold projects to American companies, give preferential contracts to American businesses, reverse the flow of Venezuelan oil exports from China to the United States, and slash his country’s energy and mining contracts with Chinese, Iranian and Russian firms.