The Syrian civil war that has decimated the country for 11 years now, provoking a regional humanitarian crisis and drawing in actors ranging from the United States to Russia, appears to be drawing inexorably to a conclusion. President Bashar al-Assad, with the backing of Iran and Russia, seems to have emerged militarily victorious from the conflict, which began after his government violently repressed civilian protests in 2011. The fighting is not yet fully over, Idlib province is the last rebel stronghold and is home to about 3 million people, many of them internally displaced. It is regularly bombed by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government. Syria’s decade-old conflict has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million. Welcome to ‘Syria’s ‘FOREVER WAR’: Forgotten And Ignored’
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
zReportage.com Story Week #825: TUESDAY February 8, 2022: ‘WAITING for PUTIN: Ukraine BRACES’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographers BRYAN SMITH and CELESTINO ARCE LAVIN: Is Ukraine In a New Kind Of Cuban Missile Crisis? Big War with Russia coming? Russian troops amassed at the Ukrainian border and the world fears the growing risk of an invasion. Putin insists that NATO missiles in the region are a red line, while Biden threatens to cut Russia out of the international financial system if Russia invades Ukraine. Caught in the middle, Ukrainians, which comes seven years after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Welcome to ‘WAITING for PUTIN: Ukraine BRACES’.
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
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