magine for a moment being trapped under the rubble of your house after it’s just been bombed. Imagine the dust, the darkness, the claustrophobia and the pain. Imagine the relief of being rescued by one of…
Alex and Charlie are walking 100km in 24 hours for Syria Relief because the children of Syria need help ON 12TH JULY, CHARLIE AND ALEX COMPLETED THEIR 100KM WALK IN 23 HOURS AND 38 MINUTES! This is…
Pro-Assad supporters fleeing rebel fighters are refused entry to the regime-controlled Syrian coast The Assad regime has closed access to the country’s coastal region to hundreds of families fleeing the villages of al-Jeed, al-Kareem, Jourin and…
Hezbollah is no longer obsessed with protecting Assad from falling, and is now seriously discussing the protection of its areas of influence inside Syria, as well as ensuring its supply routes and strategic depth The rhetoric…
Discontent soars among pro-Assad areas as power cuts and other public services fail to provide adequate living conditions A blackout in Damascus has angered regime supporters after rationing hours rose to 20 hours a day in…
On a street in East Beirut, two small boys sit on the pavement, their heads between their knees, arms wrapped around their legs. Around them, groups of people, laughing and raucous, spill out from the many…
We call on the Asad regime to drop its most recent charges and all others against prominent human rights activists, journalists, and opposition figures, including Michel Kilo, Hind Kabawat, Mazen Darwish, and Faisal al-Kasem. These absurd…
The stories of two families who left everything behind in Syria to chase a better life only to be part of the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War Rezan Abdou, 35, soft-spoken and a…
In an interview with The Syrian Observer, Syrian scholar Kheder Khaddour argues that the Syrian regime uses its control over state institutions as a means of legitimization. Drawing a clear line between the state and the…
Hundreds of soldiers and officers from prominent Alawite families, including the Assads, have reportedly defected, according to government documents A leaked document obtained from Syrian government archives shows the Assad regime reported 686 defected soldiers and…
Dick Simon responds to the question he was asked by Syrian refugee children in Turkey – “Why does everyone hate Syrians?” In April 2015, the Karam Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization, launched its fifth Innovative Education mission for…
Recent crucial events are not likely to prove the beginning of the end of the war, a top academic tells Syria Deeply. Syria’s civil war on brink of being ‘Lebanonized’ BEIRUT: The end of the Syrian…
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics. She…
In an incredibly candid and powerful address Raed Saleh, head of the White Helmets, speaks truth to power at the UN Security Council Arria Briefing on the 26th of June. Your Excellency ambassador Roman Oyarzun, Permanent…
French academic lays bare the machinations of the ‘security mafias’ behind the Arab counter-revolutions and their ‘evil twin’ of militant jihadism. “If you think you understand Lebanon, you haven’t been properly briefed”. Thus went the advice…
Jan Egeland tells Syria Deeply that a real opportunity and obligation exists to pull together at an international level to change Syria’s story. Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and former U.N. humanitarian…
Many Americans bristle when they hear that Washington bears some responsibility for the war in Syria. The US shouldn’t be blamed for a conflict between Arabs taking place thousands of kilometres away from its shores, they…
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics. She…
Obama has decided to provide Iran with an instant reward of $200 billion when signing the nuclear deal, which will undoubtedly be funnelled into Syria and other regional conflicts. Despite the rapid collapse of his forces,…
Leen speaks of her loss and struggle as she leaves her home in Syria for Istanbul Living alone in Istanbul, 20-year-old Leen lost everything in Syria. She lived with her father and brother in Damascus, her…
“This medieval organization exploits the injustice and oppression suffered in the Arab and Islamic region, just as Nasrallah and Khamenei do, to send the desperate young men in the region to die – hoping to find…
Surviving two years of oppression, tyranny, exploitation and denial of basic human rights, a group of Syrian women fled ISIS rule arriving in the northern city of Kobani A group of women who fled ISIS rule…
Library will act as an Arabic education center with the aim to provide a number of educational and artistic workshops, lectures and seminars The Syrian community in Istanbul celebrated the opening of the city’s first Arabic…
Yassin Al Haj Saleh is one of Syria’s leading political dissidents. He spent from 1980-1996 in Syrian prisons and became one of the key intellectual voices of the 2011 Syrian uprising. He spent 21 months in…