A year ago, a chemical weapons attack killed hundreds of my neighbors and friends. But the greatest tragedy is Obama’s refusal to punish the murderer in Damascus. Every time I see President Barack Obama speak…
Cars were smashed and turned upside down in the İkitelli neighborhood in the early hours of Aug. 25 following violent protests targeting Syrian refugees. DHA Photo Hundreds of Istanbul residents angered by the presence of Syrian…
After the murder of a Turk in Gaziantep by a Syrian man, many fear hostility will spread Similar mutterings have been heard from Turks across Istanbul recently: “Syrians have not shown gratitude and respect for Turkish…
The insistence of the security and economic mafia surrounding the tyrant not to respond to any legitimate demands raised by peaceful demonstrators, and after more than 5,000 peaceful demonstrators were killed, hundreds of thousands were arrested…
Dans sa version aflaqo-irakienne, le Baath est un Islam proclamé. Cela se manifeste à l’évidence dans les écrits de Michel Aflaq qui avait fait de l’Islam la mission des Arabes et qui avait appelé dans une…
I was driving the car, feeling that my heartbeats were audible to the group commander, who was in the car beside me, so I hid my worry by playing with the car radio My name is…
Under the Assad regime, Syria acquired a well-deserved reputation as a repressive mukhabarat state dominated by vast, overlapping internal security agencies that operated with near impunity, reporting directly to the president. Having presided over so much…
When it comes to an external threat, Kurds gather around the PYD’s People Protection Units for protection Syrian Kurds have been greatly affected by what is happening in neighboring Turkey and Iraq, as much as they…
A series of bizarre laws have been imposed on residents in areas under ISIS control. The Islamic State (IS) has forced shopkeepers in the Iraqi city of Mosul to veil the faces of mannequins in store…
International Institutions Confirm Increasingly Frequent War Crimes in Syria, while the United Nations Limits Itself to Humanitarian Measures that Will Not End the War. The latest decision by the Security Council to provide humanitarian aid to…
Will we as Syrians, the people and state, continue to be? The tragedy experienced by Syrian people has reached its zenith after the speeches of the tyrant of Damascus and that of the Caliph of…
Syrians are exploiting the need for accommodation, creating a new mini-market Being a refugee is no doubt one of the most traumatic human crises, with…
The bitter irony is to find out that there are nine checkpoints awaiting you before you reach your home I thought of Damascus for a long time after my departure, almost on a daily basis.…
The persistence of the conflict and the ever growing number of urban refugees is creating a set of tough challenges for Turkey The first Syrian refugees began to cross into Turkey in April 2011. This…
The opposition fighters want to end ISIS’s presence in the areas surrounding Damascus Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are coming under increasing pressure from other Syrian rebel groups in areas around…
Nada sat her exams in June in Kansafra, one of 34 towns in the Jabal al-Zawiya area, home to around 100,000 residents and under the armed opposition’s control for the last year-and-a-half For the second year…
I was never concerned with their sects, just as I did not care about the side they were fighting on My name is Laurie, I am 35 years old and I will carry you with me…
There were not too many differences between the speeches of Baghdadi and Assad After listening to the speech of Bashar Assad appointing himself President of Syria for seven more years, the first scene that came…
Scores of civil society activists, human rights defenders, media and humanitarian workers remain in arbitrary detention in Syria more than a month after the government declared a general amnesty, twelve nongovernmental organizations said today. Syrian officials should immediately…
After opposition forces took control of the town, the Farmers Association stopped its work because it could no longer provide the necessary funding or fuel to maintain its water pumps (Al-Bouleil, Syria) ─ Authorities in the…
Today’s United Nations Security Council resolution, which directly authorizes UN agencies and their implementing partners to deliver aid across Syria’s borders and conflict lines, is a welcome and unprecedented further step towards ensuring millions of people…
The Day After organization (TDA), in collaboration with local councils, civil society institutions, and military councils in the province of Edlib, launched a campaign under the title of ‘Complain In Order Not To Lose Your Rights’,…
TDA Communicators are preparing to launch the ‘complaints box’ campaign in several areas in Idlib. The aim of the campaign is to encourage citizens to express any concerns they may have about the behavior of…
BY ABDULLAH AL ANDALUSI on JULY 6, 2014 • ( 1 ) The Al-Qaeda offshoot, ISIS (now called ‘Islamic State’ [I.S.]) is accused of fighting rival groups more than Syrian security forces. Folly Bah Thibault speaks to Isabel Nassief – research analyst at…