Bashar Deeb / بشار ديب

Congratulations to every Syrian who fought tirelessly for this moment: the peaceful protesters, the Free Syrian Army fighters, the detainees who paid the heaviest price among us, and the heroes of the White Helmets who gave us hope in our darkest hours.

Wtf

It's not often we get to report on hopeful news... Alaa Hamoudi has won in the EU's top court against Frontex! This opens doors for many survivors of Frontex pushbacks. @bash_deeb tells how he first reported on Alaa's case back in 2020 with @bellingcat. And how this evidence ended up in court.

Although It's an open secret that his employers are the main supporters of the RSF in Sudan, none of the journalists in the room thought about asking him the obvious question when he mentioned being hurt by seeing the images from Sudan.

Penguins don’t live in Greenland. But ignorance lives in the White House.

The amount of disinformation with regards to Syria right now is crazy. Pro-SDF accounts claim there is a 'genocide of Kurds' occurring (when the Syrian army has entered zero Kurdish towns). Meanwhile, YPG gunmen have conducted two separate mass executions of Arab men past 48hrs.

Very important investigation into yet another crime committed by #Assad's terror regime: How the 'charity' @sos_children @SOS_Children_Sy helped disappear & hide the children of political detainees in #Syria. @LHreports @bash_deeb @SIRAJ_SYRIA @derspiegel youtu.be/LymByDEqWkM?si…

I will never forgive nor will I ever forget about the various Assadists, Russian stooges & malicious inhumane bastards who deliberately and knowingly did everything they could to get my friend @Elizrael killed by her captors while she was held hostage in Iraq. The huge push by those nasty propagandists to talk up false claims about her being some kind of Israeli spy or intelligence agent put her life at greater risk and it is quite apparent that individuals like Ali Abunimah, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate and Asa Winstanley - to name just a few - published hit pieces and promoted disinformation with the intent of getting Elizabeth killed. These people are pure evil. They do not believe in any kind of human rights or justice. Read Elizabeth's story here in the @nytimes published today: nytimes.com/2025/11/05/wor…

نشرت صحيفة @nytimes للتو التقرير الخاص باختطافي، والفترة التي قضيتها في الأسر، وكيف تم تحريري. يحتوي التقرير على تفاصيل صعبة حول التعذيب الذي مارسته كتائب الحثالة لإجباري على الإدلاء باعترافات كاذبة. كان المراسلون الذين كتبوا القصة محترمين ومراعين، ولم يضغطوا عليّ لمشاركة أي شيء كنت أرغب في الاحتفاظ به كمعلومات خاصة. مثل أي شخص آخر، لا أريد أن تكون تفاصيل أسوأ لحظات حياتي علنية. لكني أعلم أن جميع ضحايا الميليشيات العراقية تقريباً لا يستطيعون التحدث علانية: فإما أن تكون الميليشيات قد قتلتهم، أو أنهم موجودون في العراق أو لديهم عائلات فيه، وبالتالي ما زالوا معرضين للتهديد. قلت لنفسي وأنا في الأسر أن إذا نجوت وخرجت حياً، فسيكون واجبي تجاه الضحايا الآخرين لهذه الميليشيات، الذين غالبيتهم الساحقة من العراقيين والسوريين، أن أفضح وحشيتهم ودناءتهم. لقد نجوت بفضل الله من يد هؤلاء القوم المجرمين وخرجت حياً. أنا بأمان. ويمكنني وواجبي أن أصدح بالحق الآن.

The story of my kidnapping by Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia serving Iran, 903 days of captivity, and liberation thanks to threats of the Trump Administration nytimes.com/2025/11/05/wor… By @adamrasgon, @IKershner & @ronenbergman

@Elizrael @adamrasgon @IKershner @ronenbergman Although I don't know you in person, I thought of you on the day Syria was freed from the Assad regime, you are one of the few voices that never stopped supporitng our casue. Congratulations on your freedom and I wish you a smooth and steady recovery.

simultaneously incredible and totally predictable

@trbrtc Very valuable and important work Christiaan

When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs

@SOSKinderdorfAT @1962Wren @simonajeger @SOSChildrenUSA @soschildrenuk @LHreports By severely limited, you mean limited to secretly hiding children of detainees that were forcibly separated from their parents so the authoritarian regime can use them as leverage against their own communities.

@1962Wren @simonajeger @SOSChildrenUSA @soschildrenuk @bash_deeb @LHreports @1962Wren​ Working in authoritarian contexts presents significant challenges. Our colleagues' scope for action in Syria was severely limited. We are reaching our limits precisely where help is needed the most, yet we are doing everything we can to protect children.

Most of the senior positions at SOS #Syria @SOSKinderdorfAT @SOSChildrenUSA @soschildrenuk were appointed directly by the #Assad palace and Asma al-Assad played a leading role in the organisation.' @bash_deeb @LHreports #SyriasDisappeared lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

@SOSKinderdorfAT @1962Wren @SOSChildrenUSA @soschildrenuk @bash_deeb @LHreports To disappear and hide children per Assad’s orders is not to protect children. You should do everything possible to find them. - @qunfuz2 @Syrians4J @EliotHiggins

'#Syria has one of the largest populations of missing people in the world. - Families are still searching for at least 3,700 children who went missing under al-#Assad.' @bash_deeb @LHreports @MonicaCCamacho #SyriasDisappeared #JusticeForSyria lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

@LeilaShami الحمدلله عالسلامة!!

بحبك يا شام

Two things you can do: 1-Ignore Tim & don't buy his books 2-Be better than Tim, condemn all war crimes regardless of their origine.

Two facts about this tweet: 1-Huge number of civilians were tragically executed in the Syrian coastal areas over the weekend 2-Tim Anderson only speaks of massacres that fits with his narrow worldview, he spent the best part of the last decade denying the war crimes of Assad.