Chris Ray
Chris Ray is a freelance journalist whose writing on the Syrian war has appeared in Australian, US and UK publications.
Articles by Chris Ray (3 total)
Syria’s minorities under siege
The drive by Syria’s Sunni Islamist rulers to stamp their authority over religious and ethnic minorities has hit a stumbling block in the southern province of Suweida.
A massacre in Sharifa
The residents of the Syrian village of Sharifa lay in puddles and rivulets of blood. Some died with arms outstretched; others seemed to clutch protectively at their chests. Most had been executed with shots to the head and two women had their faces blown apart.
An Islamist regime takes shape in Damascus
On a winter night in 2014 I stood by the side of a highway outside Damascus as a Syrian army officer shone a torch over the contents of my suitcase he had ordered me to empty onto the grey dirt.