Robert G. Rabil is associate professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of “Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel and Lebanon” (Lynne Rienner, 2003); “Syria, United States and the War on Terror in…
Against a backdrop of growing armed revolt in Syria alongside street protests, the main opposition group is planning for a future without President Bashar al-Assad, its leader tells the BBC’s Paul Wood in an interview. Ahmed,…
Syria’s embattled government has been holding jailed dissidents underground and paying pro-government gang members $100 a day to crack down on protesters as it tries to quell months of demonstrations against it, a former defense official…
Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — The Philippines has asked its 10,000 workers to leave Syria as escalating conflict in the Middle Eastern state prompted President Benigno Aquino to order “mandatory repatriation,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario…
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The Secretary-General of the Arab League acknowledged today that Syrians doubt the nature of the observers’ mission in Syria. The Arab League has demonstrated, despite their alleged good intentions, their ignorance of the daily reality Syrians…
إهداء إلى شهداء الثورة السورية نيسم جلال – إرتجال حر Hommage aux martyrs de la révolution syrienne Naïssam Jalal – Improvisation libre Tribute to the martyrs of syrian revolution Naïssam Jalal – Free Improvisatio Plus
GENEVA — A cousin of Syria’s President Bashar Assad has lost his legal bid to get a visa for Switzerland, where he wanted to meet with a lawyer to challenge international sanctions imposed against him.Switzerland’s supreme…
An Arab League observer steps into a mosque in the city of Homs and is shown the tiny “martyr,” one of thousands of people killed in Syria over the past nine months. The 5-year-old boy was…
In these troubled days, what present should we ask from Father Christmas? Does he still have any gifts for us? The only gift that would please me is that he take care of my county’s health…
December 26, 2011 With abuses reportedly taking place in Syrian hospitals, doctors set up makeshift clinics in opposition neighborhoods to treat wounded protesters. Now authorities are targeting them. The young doctor got the call early in…
The Syrian Organization for Human Rights (SWASIAH) Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. (Article /3/ of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) Statement One of the gates of the General Intelligence Department in…
الجزء الثاني سيعرض قريبا على صفحتنا على الفيس بوك ان شاء الله وتوثيق ودراسة لكافة فيدويهات التعذيب وانتهاك حقوق الانسان الذي يتعرض إليه المعتقلون بدون أية تهم. وثائقي للقناة الرابعة البريطانية. من داخل سوريا.الجزء الأولترجمة فريق العمل…
The Syrian Organization for Human Rights (SWASIAH) · Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. (Article /3/ of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) · Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and…
Regime officials have long blamed al-Qaida for the uprising. Now they will say they have been proved right. Friday 23 December 2011 Arab League observers had barely started work in Damascus when the message that their…
December 23, 2011 ISTANBUL — Around 100 Syrian demonstrators are assembled outside a Syrian government building, clearly shouting their opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. The protesters, many of them students, are aware of the severe risks…
The Syrian regime wants to crush any expression of dissent in its fragile neighbor. President Bashar al-Assad’s allies in Beirut are only too happy to oblige. BEIRUT – The blacked-out sport utility vehicles entered the small…
The Syrian leader isn’t crazy. He’s just doing whatever it takes to survive. BY BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA, ALASTAIR SMITH | DECEMBER 20, 2011 The assessments of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following his interview with Barbara…
Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman December 21, 2011 Amid mounting violence that has killed more than five thousand in Syria, it is “almost inevitable” the regime of President Bashar al-Assad will collapse, says Dennis Ross, a former senior…
Syria’s major opposition group condemned Bashar al-Assad’s regime Wednesday for “horrific massacres” this week and called on the Arab League and the U.N. Security Council to take “necessary measures” to protect civilians. The Syrian National Council…
In recent days, human rights groups and opposition activists say some 200 people have been killed by Syrian security forces in the hills and villages of the north-western province of Idlib. Most of those killed in…
Les réfugiés affluent vers la région de Djebel al-Zawiya, la seule du pays qui soit contrôlée par les déserteurs de l’armée de Bachar el-Assad. En neuf mois, les affrontements en Syrie auraient fait plus de 5000 morts,…
It’s going to be a decisive week for Syria. The Syrian National Council (SNC), the de facto umbrella organization representing the country’s political opposition, is meeting in Tunis to try and get its house in order…
What do you do when you run out of arguments? For some Arab and Iranian intellectuals the answer is simple: you brand your opponents as “agents” of foreign powers and pawns in a foreign-hatched “conspiracy”. This…