Anas Zein - أنس زين العابدين 🇬🇧 🇸🇾

British Syrian. Travelling and Biking. Syria is Free

[Anas Zein - أنس زين العابدين 🇬🇧 🇸🇾 @alharriri]

After 50 years away, my father returned to #Syria, not just to a place, but to a lifetime of memories, loss, and belonging. This short film is dedicated to my father’s long-awaited return.

[YASSIN² 🇸🇾🇺🇸🦅 @Yassin44SYR]

Does the West realize this?

[Anas Zein - أنس زين العابدين 🇬🇧 🇸🇾 @alharriri]

Arrived in Syria today and this was one of the first messages I received randomly via sms from the Ministry of Health:

“Substance use disorder is a health condition that can be treated. It is not a weakness of character or morals.”

Interesting to see this kind of public health messaging in Syria. A very different approach to addiction and stigma.

[Anas Zein - أنس زين العابدين 🇬🇧 🇸🇾 @alharriri]

@Haqiqatjou For 20 months, you’ve been falsely accusing Ahmed al-Sharaa of normalising relations with Israel. Perhaps wait and see whether he actually does (it won’t happen). Yet you remain obsessed with the idea and continue passing judgement on him because it suits your narrative.

[Anas Zein - أنس زين العابدين 🇬🇧 🇸🇾 @alharriri]

😂 Bye-bye, Hikmat al-Hijri.

This feels like a precursor to what comes next, just as we saw with the #SDF.

[Ambassador Tom Barrack @USAMBTurkiye]

We are dismayed by the renewed escalation in Suwayda.

Nearly a year ago, alongside Syrian Foreign Minister al-Shaibani and Jordanian Foreign Minister Safadi, we put our signatures to a trilateral roadmap for peace in Suwayda: a path to the dignified reintegration of the province into Syria, with the full rights and the full obligations of citizenship for its Druze community. That path remains the only one that leads anywhere but back to grief.

Syria’s Druze are a people of noble and ancient history. Yet where governance is absent, gangs fill the void, and today a very few with toxic motives are turning on their own, men such as Atef Hunaidi, arbitrarily detained and driven from his home. Our team is in contact with Mr. Hunaidi and with others caught in this campaign of intracommunal violence. Cooperation among the Druze, the Arab tribes, and the neighboring nations along Suwayda’s borders must continue to be built in threads of tolerance and understanding: one nation and one people, of diverse and respected cultures and faiths, interacting through communal dialogue and empathy, and leaving the kinetic, knee-jerk reflex where it belongs, in the hands of the nation-state alone.

The Syrian government has begun to confront the grave crimes committed by its forces last July and to hold those responsible to account before its courts. That is the direction of hope, and it must continue. The only way forward is a dialogue that delivers accountability, restores security, and opens the road for the displaced to return and for what was destroyed to be rebuilt.

This is a sensitive hour, in the neighborhood and in the world. We urge upon all parties the two disciplines that peace has always asked of the brave: restraint in action, and communication in
earnest. The alternative to talking is not victory. It is only the next round of mourning.

[Marwan || أبو يعـقوب 🇸🇾 @MrMarwan07]

الفن الدمشقي❤️

📍دمشق-سوريا ❤️🇸🇾

[𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 @ColdBrief]

Twenty months. Let's do the scoreboard 🤩

Assad fled to Moscow on 8 December 2024 and has not been heard from since, which is the most useful thing he has done for Syria in fifty years!

Since then:

The sanctions came off. All of them. The EU in May 2025, the US embargo in June, the Caesar Act repealed in December, and on Monday Syria came off the state sponsors of terrorism list after forty-seven years. Forty-seven. Syria was on that list longer than most of the people arguing about it have been alive.

There was an election. October 2025, a 210-member parliament, the first since Assad. A provisional constitution. A roadmap. Boring, procedural, unglamorous, and exactly what nobody thought these people could do.

The economy turned. Inflation from 72 percent down to 11. The pound appreciating since the day Assad left, which is its own commentary. The stock exchange reopened.
$28 billion in investment pledged.
In February the state took back its oil and gas fields and shipped heavy crude for the first time in 14 years.

Three million people went home.
1.5 million refugees, 1.7 million internally displaced.
Turns out people return when the man bombing them leaves.

The coast went from the most dangerous place in Syria in early 2025 to the safest by the end of it.

Kurdish became a national language. Citizenship restored to people the 1962 census erased. Newroz a national holiday. Kurdish in classrooms this academic year.

And on Tuesday the SDF dissolved itself. One army. Saudi Arabia sent congratulations today.

Now here is the part I enjoy.

Since December 2024, Syria has taken more than a thousand Israeli air and artillery strikes and at least 825 ground incursions.

Its response, every single time, has been diplomacy.

A thousand strikes and the man will not take the bait. Netanyahu has been trying to start a war with Damascus for twenty months and Damascus keeps sending negotiators to Amman instead.
Katz stood on Mount Hermon this week and told al-Sharaa to look up at the mountain every morning, and al-Sharaa's answer was to hold a ceremony, dissolve a militia, and get himself delisted by Washington on the same day.

That is what actually irritates them. Not that Syria is dangerous. That Syria refuses to be.

Twenty months. Nobody predicted this. Least of all the people who keep bombing it.

[Syrian Response @SyrianResponse]

Welcome to the conversation.

[Anas Zein - أنس زين العابدين 🇬🇧 🇸🇾 @alharriri]

Was looking forward to using @nsavecom but…

I registered today and the USD to Syrian Pound rate on nsave is approximately 12,904, while the market rate in Syria is around 13,700. I hope this can be improved.

On a modest $1,000 transfer, the recipient loses roughly 800,000 SYP (8,000 new currency). That’s 6%! More if you are being charged by your bank to transfer the money into nsave.

Currently, unconventional money transfers to Syria are around 7%, so I can’t yet say this is a robust solution.

MoneyGram was great before they removed the USD and replaced it with SYP. I hope @nsavecom can offer something more competitive especially when I want to transfer larger sums.

[أسعد حسن الشيباني @AsaadHShaibani]

أتقدم بخالص الامتنان وعظيم التقدير لأخي معالي وزير الخارجية السيد ناصر بوريطة على ما غمرنا به من حفاوة استقبال أصيلة وكرم ضيافة يعكس عراقة المغرب وشهامة أهله، وعلى اللقاءات الأخوية الثرية التي جسدت عمق العلاقات المتينة بين بلدينا الشقيقين.
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[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

NEW -- #Syria has foiled a major #Hezbollah plot to assassinate a series of senior government officials across the country.

Simultaneous raids were conducted today in #Damascus, #Aleppo, #Homs, #Tartus & #Latakia -- neutralizing the whole operation & seizing IEDs.

[Anas Zein - أنس زين العابدين 🇬🇧 🇸🇾 @alharriri]

ان شاء الله نشوفو على المشنقة مع عاطف نجيب وأمجد يوسف. يستحق الشنق مع جماعته

[Nathalie | ناتالي @Nath_limited_ed]

المفتي أحمد حسون يكذب على الهواء، ومذيع الجزيرة اشمئز منه وقال، لاحول ولاقوة الا بالله.
بما معناه، إذا مشايخ النظام هيك لكن كيف الباقي!

[Shelly Kittleson @shellykittleson]

I deeply appreciate all the requests I have received in this period for interviews but I will not be doing any more for some days at least.

My CNN interview and @TheAtlantic story are online for anyone wanting to know a bit about the circumstances, background, etc.

At the moment I need to focus on dealing with some of the physical, financial, and other repercussions of what happened. I will be writing more in the future but give me some time, please.

[قناة الجزيرة @AJArabic]

#عاجل | جيروزاليم بوست عن ضابط بسلاح الجو الإسرائيلي: سوريا تعيد بناء قدراتها العسكرية وأنظمة الرادار والدفاع الجوي

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

After record rains in recent months & storage efforts in late-2025, #Syria's Grain Authority has assessed that the country won't require *any* wheat imports in 2026.

That'd be the first time in many, many years.

[Rami @RamiSafadi93]

Every single color piece you see here is a piece of wood from an actual tree, like pistachio trees, lemon trees, almond trees and more. I can't imagine how much labor goes into building one of these.

[أحمد الشرع @AH_AlSharaa]

ستظل العدالة إحدى أسمى القيم التي انتصر لها شعبنا، وغاية كبرى تسهر الدولة ومؤسساتها على تحقيقها، إنصافًا للضحايا وتضميدًا للجراح، وتعزيزًا للسلم الأهلي والعيش المشترك، وتأكيدًا لعهدنا بملاحقة المتسب��ين في معاناة شعبنا وآلامه.

[Shadia Ajlouni @shadia_aj]

كلنا حمزة الخطيب
من محاكمة المجرم #عاطف_نجيب