Google et le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés lancent un site Internet pour répondre aux cinq questions le plus fréquemment posées par des internautes. LE MONDE | 22.05.2017 à 17h06 • Mis à jour…
Law professor David Crane, who has a record of taking on the prosecution of war criminals, is keeping a detailed record of the events in Syria for future prosecution. His Syrian Accountability Project’s latest report takes…
With Russians and Iranians in control in Damascus, the U.S. bolstering rebels, and no one powerful enough to press for unification, the breakup of Syria is a fait accompli. BY JONATHAN SPYER – MAY 19, 2017 DAMASCUS, Syria…
In a bid to counter the current negative perceptions on the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon, Dr. Nasser Yassin, Director of Research at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, and professor of…
WASHINGTON — The United States accused the Syrian government on Monday of using a crematory to hide mass murders at a prison where thousands are believed to have been summarily executed in the nation’s civil war.…
What Do Syrians Want Their Future to Be? A Survey of Refugees in Turkey May 1, 2017 By Kristin Fabbe, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sinmazdemir As the Syrian civil war enters its seventh year, the violence…
As numerous reports attest to — the refugee crisis is likely the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. The news is rife with images of people fleeing conflict in water-logged rafts, overcrowded into camps, and waiting…
The Per Anger prize goes to Abdullah al-Khateeb in Syria 29 September 2016 In July he survived an attempted assassination; now he is to receive a Swedish government prize. The 2016 Per Anger prize is being…
Orient Research Centre associate Zeina Yagan discusses one of the many dilemmas that has emerged for Syrians during the conflict: How does one bridge the deep, sometimes emotionally charged, divides in the Syrian community? WHEN THE SYRIAN…
Syrian photographer Zakaria Abdelkafi took a photograph in Paris as harrowing as many of the images from his war-torn native land: a French riot policeman engulfed in flames. Taken on the sidelines of a May Day…
Europe needs to step up its game in Syria Mazen Darwish: ‘I was in Brussels recently with other Syrian civil society representatives to meet with EU and UN officials to reinforce our key demands on protection,…
Report by U.K.-based human rights group documents regime violations in the Al-Waer neighborhood of Homs, including the killing of nearly 900 civilians, in the lead-up to resettlement operations being carried out, opposition media reports The Syrian…
24In this new research paper, ARI’s Deputy Director, Salam Kawakibi analyses the Assad regime’s exploitation of sectarian and confessional divisions and deconstructs the myths used in its political rhetoric to gain power and present itself as…
On International Street Children’s Day, Refugees Deeply speaks to Syrian students in Lebanon, some who had previously been out of school and on the streets for years, about the importance of education in their young lives. JAMAL…
Intervention in Syria and Putin’s Strategy Article publish on Souria Houria 2 april 2017 by Moiffak Hassan Today Syria is a country occupied by 60 thousand Iranian revolutionary guards and their cronies, an armada of the…
Syrian lawyers and activists launch suits against regime’s security leadership in European courts, hoping to to establish a mechanism for transitional justice for Syrians on a national level Syrian activists in recent months have succeeded in…
The Syrian war will permanently damage a generation if the mental health needs of children are not immediately addressed, writes Save the Children’s regional advocacy, media and communications director Misty Buswell. AMMAN, JORDAN – The physical scars of…
A wide element of Syrian children could be living in a state of “toxic stress” due to prolonged exposure to the horrors of war, aid group Save the Children said. The research drew on interviews in…
On a cool morning, an elderly man is standing at his espresso machine on a street in eastern Aleppo. It’s shortly after 8 a.m., and this part of the city — destroyed in the war and…
I’m in a jeep with Carlos, a Reuters correspondent, and three other independent journalists. Our driver, a Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander, is zigzagging around Aleppo’s alleyways to avoid the gaze of the pilot circling directly…
In the first of our in-depth reports on the education crisis for Syrian refugees, Abby Sewell reports from Lebanon on the challenges faced by Syrian siblings in a country with the highest per capita number of…
The report ‘No Return to Homs’ documents the government of Bashar al-Assad’s strategy of besieging, starving, killing and transferring people from various cities and neighbourhoods in Syria. The report focuses on Homs, the first major urban…
Muhammad Faris was the first and only Syrian to be sent into space. Selected as part of a Soviet-led mission in the 1980s, he received a hero’s welcome on his return home. But the national hero…
Nicolette Boehland, lead researcher on Amnesty’s recent report on Saydnaya prison, discusses the human rights NGO’s yearlong investigation of the Syrian government’s alleged campaign of mass hangings and extermination. BEIRUT – Public outrage and foreign pressure are two ways…