In a world exhausted by wars, the word “peace” appears enticing enough to be placed atop the largest and most ambiguous projects. And when wounded and battered Gaza is invoked as the banner for a new international board of peace, one is led to believe that the world has finally decided to listen to the pain.

The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project ranks among the largest strategic initiatives in Central Asia, aiming to link Kashgar in western China, with Kyrgyzstan, and then Uzbekistan as far as Andijan, establishing a vital international corridor for trade and transit between China, Central Asia, and Europe.

Al-Rayah Newspaper: Issue 582 in English

Since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, there has been much talk in Syria about the necessity of achieving transitional justice, that is, justice that guarantees the transition from an unjust and tyrannical regime to a new system that provides justice and to a people who have suffered the most brutal forms of oppression and repression for fourteen years.