Scott Mc Kiernan presents zReportage.com Issue #997 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY July 22, 2025: ‘Syria: Between Fear and Hope’ by ZUMA Press award winning dpa photo-journalist Moawia Atrash: Just eight months after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, many Syrians fear they have merely exchanged one autocrat for another. Confronted with a battered economy and sectarian opposition to his rule, President Ahmed al-Sharaa governs a fractured country still reeling from drought and the aftermath of the country’s 13-year civil war. A surge in sectarian violence in southern Syria and Israeli airstrikes reaching central Damascus have pushed the war?scarred country into a volatile juncture, a senior UN official said on Thursday, warning that renewed violence could shatter prospects for peace and fuel wider regional instability. Welcome to ‘Syria: Between Fear and Hope’
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