Posts Tagged ‘jabal’

SYRIA: US War Crime in Jabal Al Tharda, Deir Ezzor and the Implausible Denials

The author and Col Nihad Kanaan, commanding officer at Jabal al Tharda. October 2017 (Photo: Tim Anderson) Prof. Tim Anderson21st Century Wire  On 17 September 2016 a carefully planned US-led air raid on Jabal al Tharda (Mount Tharda), overlooking Deir Ezzor airport, slaughtered over 100 Syrian soldiers and delivered control of the mountain to DAESH […]

‘We shall remain’: Bedouin of Jabal al-Baba face an uphill battle to keep their land

Forty-two-year-old Atallah Mazara’a from the Jahalin Bedouin tribe recalls a time when residents were free to move, unhindered by concrete walls and unobtainable permits. “Life was so simple before the [separation barrier] because you could leave for vacation, for weddings; you could take your car and go to Jerusalem,” Mazara’a said. “You could pray Maghrib [prayer just after […]

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