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In the blind spot of history

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Jörg Luyken
Dec 08, 2024
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Dear Reader,

For those of you who don’t know, before I moved to Germany I spent several years in the Middle East and still occasionally report from afar on Middle Eastern news.

With no journalists on the ground in Assad-controlled Syria, the main source journalists have used is the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Run by exiles in London, it has an e…

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