“Samir Othman Al-Sheikh, a close friend of Bashar & Maher al-Assad, a torturer who oversaw horrific abuses at Adra Prison, has finally been held accountable”
The man who oversaw torture & massacres & the arrest of Mazen al Hamada faces justice at last
www.courthousenews.com/former-syria...
14 yrs ago Marie Colvin gave her life to tell the story of the massacre of Syrians, believing the world would care & stop the slaughter
Lasting honour to a hero of humanity & of 🇸🇾, & our enduring sympathy to those who will always love and miss her
Thinking of you today also, @reflextv.bsky.social
Irish Syria Solidarity supports Ukraine after 12 yrs of brutal invasion & 4 yrs of full scale genocidal war against them by Russia.
The same Russia that with Assad, Iran & Hezbollah waged a horrific war of extermination against the people of Syria.
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦
#FreeSyria🇸🇾
How the Kurds Lost Eastern Syria
The autonomous administration in the country’s northeast replicated the authoritarian tactics of the regimes it fought, driving the Arab majority to revolt
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
Syria and France have called on Lebanon to arrest former Syrian Air Force Intelligence chief Jamil Hassan, believed to be on Lebanese soil.
— Enab Baladi
english.enabbaladi.net/archives/202...
Irish Syria Solidarity #StandWithUkraine
today at
Russian Embassy
Christmas Solidarity with Ukraine
Led by the indomitable group of protesters holding Rissia to account every day
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦
#FreeSyria🇸🇾
'The wives of #SyriasDisappeared exist in legal & social limbo, unable to grieve, move forward, or find answers. Because most of the disappeared are young men, the majority married with children, the economic, social, legal & emotional consequences are profound'
timep.org/2025/12/10/w...
Please sign @thesyriacampaign.org
petition & bring Assad to Justice
For insight into Assad's horrific crimes, see #BringingAssadtoJustice, award winning doc by Irish human rights film makers @annedaly19 @RonanLTynan www.bringingassadtojustice.com
Petition: act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/BringAs...
Ternopil, 34 killed
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
USCIS @USCIS X.com Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols. The protections and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission. 10:04 PM • 11/26/25 • 2.1K Views
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
BREAKING A Turkish court on Thursday acquitted four journalists, including AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, who were on trial over mass demonstrations in Istanbul in March.
The four were arrested several days into the wave of protest sparked by the arrest of Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
RIP Syrian Human Rights Defender #KhalilMatouq
He was last seen in September 2013, in Military Security Branch 235, Damascus, known as the 'Palestine Branch'.
Our deepest sympathy to all those who love and grieve him.
#SyriasDisappeared
tensofthousands.amnesty.org/content/khal...
Catherine Connolly met with a militia leader who committed war crimes against Palestinian refugees.
Saed Abd Al-Aal led a pro-Assad armed group responsible for killing, starvation & forced displacement of Palestinians in the refugee camp in Yarmouk.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
June 2018
Paediatrician @annie_sparrow
6 yrs exp in Syria
gave incontrovertible evidence to Dáil JFAC
of Assad stealing 50%++ of UN aid
Catherine Connolly
in a disgraceful letter
contradicted her
& insisted aid continue to go to Assad
& disgustingly insulted true humanitarian Dr Sparrow
Who is Saed Abd al-Aal, the commander of the murderous pro-Assad militia who showed Catherine Connolly around Yarmouk camp?
Why did she never mention 'facts' about him & the slaughter of Palestinians there on her return?
Ms Connolly's 'fact-finding' trip to Syria brought back no facts
She never spoke of Assad slaughter of Palestinians in Yarmouk.
Imagine a TD going to Gaza, meeting IDF commander, coming back with nothing to say but ask to lift sanctions on Israel, & leave IDF in control of aid
For 14 yrs we witnessed & spoke about what we witnessed as Syria was annihilated by the Assad regime.
We called out Irish TDs & MEPs whose actions aided & abetted the regime.
We often spoke into a void.
Most disappointing was that many on the left ignored Syrian suffering totally.
Catherine Connolly met with a militia leader who committed war crimes against Palestinian refugees.
Saed Abd Al-Aal led a pro-Assad armed group responsible for killing, starvation & forced displacement of Palestinians in the refugee camp in Yarmouk.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
ISSM:
Connolly & 3 other TDs visit to Syria in 2018 provided a lifeline to the regime.
She went on a 'fact-finding' mission & came back with no facts about Assad Russia Iran warcrimes & atrocities.
Never mentioned #Seydnaya death camp.
www.instagram.com/reel/DP0w11X...
4 Irish MPs toured Yarmouk camp, site of starvation siege, bombing & forced displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians - with the perpetrator of these atrocities.
Their guide was Saed Abd al-Aal, commander of the 'Free Palestine Movement', guilty of mass killing of civilians in Yarmouk
The FPM was instrumental in imposing a years-long starvation siege of the Palestinian camp.
One member under al-Aal's command, Mofeq al-Daouah, was accused of multiple counts of rape & of a massacre when he fired a rocket into a crowd of residents queuing for aid & imprisoned for life in Germany.
Catherine Connolly has not admitted nor explained her meeting with Saed Abd al-Aal,
commander of the Free Palestine Movement,
known as the butchers of Yarmouk.
FPM acted as enforcers for Assad, through massacres & rape, in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk.
telegra.ph/Open-Letter-...
Rape and torture in Assad's prisons: Syrian women break their silence
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
Why did #CatherineConnolly not carry out “due diligence” check on either militia commander Saed Abd al-Aal or high-ranking Assadist Fares al-Shehabi?
At best, lack of judgement -- At worst, effective support for propaganda of a murderous regime in #Syria
#Aras25 #Ireland
(3/3)
Now we learn that #CatherineConnolly guide in #Yarmouk camp was Saed Abd al-Aal, military commander of “Free Palestine Movement”, militia working w #Assad regime
Did she know that al-Aal was head of militia accused of mass killing of civilians?
#Syria #Ireland #Aras25
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Thread: Serious questions for Presidential candidate #CatherineConnolly re 2018 trip - funded by #Ireland taxpayers - to #Assad regime’s #Syria
She finally said her guide in #Aleppo was high-ranking Assadist Fares al-Shehabi but claimed she did not know his role
#Aras25
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