Humanitarian agencies are standing by to resume their desperate scramble to evacuate hundreds of civilians – including terrified and malnourished children, the elderly, the sick and the injured – from the besieged Old City of Homs…
The Syrian peace conference known as Geneva II has just restarted after a weeklong pause, but the results so far are meager. Despite an evacuation of civilians from Homs, there has been no visible progress on the issue for which the…
A tentative ceasefire between government forces and rebels in the besieged neighborhoods of the Old City of Homs was announced late Thursday afternoon, which just might allow the U.N. teams to evacuate women and children who…
DENVER — THE Syrian people are starving. According to the United Nations, about 800,000 civilians are currently under siege. In areas around the cities of Homs, Aleppo and Deir Ezzor and in parts of the capital,…
Iranian freedom activists who themselves risk execution for protesting against the Tehran regime yesterday launched a Facebook page in solidarity with the people of Syria also fighting for freedom from the Tehran-backed Assad regime to share…
Syria is my father’s country, where I spent an important part of my young adulthood, where my son was born. Living there was the inspiration for my first novel (though it’s set mainly in London). In…
At the start of the “Arab Spring,” I was so optimistic about the prospect of democracy in the Middle East and heartened by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. On my mind was the oppression of…
Children have endured ‘unspeakable’ and ‘unacceptable’ suffering during Syria’s civil war, UN’s Ban Ki-moon says Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by President Bashar Assad’s forces and recruited for combat by the…
That the first round of talks in Geneva in the last week of January achieved nothing as Mr Brahimi admitted, is not a surprise. But is there a strategy? For there to be one, it must…
Each and every day that the barrel-bombing of Aleppo continues, the Asad regime reminds the world of its true colors. It is the latest barbaric act of a regime that has committed organized, wholesale torture, used…
HOMS – Nearly 600 days have passed since the Syrian government laid siege to neighborhoods in Homs. Now residents of those areas hope that concessions made this week in Geneva conference will help the approximately 250 families who need…
Esa Alexander/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty ImagesFree Syrian Army soldiers in a captured Syrian government prison, Darkoush, Syria, April 23, 2013 President Obama’s State of the Union address last week took an hour and five minutes, of…
After violent clashes between government forces and Muslim Brotherhood insurgents in several trouble spots in 1982, then-President Hafez Al-Assad ordered troops into the restive city of Hama. For three weeks Syrian tanks and planes bombarded Hama…
C’est un témoignage unique en son genre et particulièrement riche à l’heure où les pays européens découvrent que plusieurs centaines de leurs jeunes citoyens sont déjà partis combattre en Syrie. L’un d’entre eux, un ancien militaire hollandais…
Ahmad Heidar, a former teacher, is using his expertise in electronics to design a machine that can rescue wounded Syrians from live fire “The authorities think we’re building a machine for making chocolates,” Ahmad Heidar says…
Pour voir l’exposition de Kafranbel à Paris : Paris du 4 au 6 /10/2013: Exposition : Kafranbel, Révolution et dessins / كفرنبل، ثورة ورسوم Syrie: la leçon de courage, d’humour et de fraternité de Kafranbel, la ville…
GENEVA — The first face-to-face peace talks by antagonists in the Syria conflict appeared to deadlock on Monday, with enormous differences over the basic purpose of negotiations as well as a government relief gesture for civilians…
A world away from Geneva II, the inhabitants of one Syrian village have dug in on their crag and won’t give up the fight any time soon. A year ago the villages of Jebel Akrad were…
Publiée le 27 janv. 2014 Samar Yazbek & Razan Ghazzawi, for the freedom of Razan ZAITOUNEH and her comrades. سمر يزبك و رزان غزاوي من أجل حرية رزان زيتونة وأصدقائها
If Hezbollah’s constituency has learnt anything recently, it is that nothing comes without a price. The party of God always calculates its moves and measures wins and losses before embarking on new adventures, and they always…
ISTANBUL / AMMAN // Syrian intelligence agencies released Islamist militants from prison to deliberately subvert a peaceful uprising and ignite a violent rebellion, according to a former regime security official. The claim comes ahead of peace…
Posted on Facebook on January 24, 2014 It’s been a while since I blogged and told the world about what’s going on in Moadamiya, but once again, the lack of electrical power and an overdose of…
Ahmed Zaino مخيم اليرموك – بلدات الغوطة الشرقية – أحياء دمشق الجنوبية- حمص القديمة حيث اطفالنا يموتون جوعا تحت الحصار وعلى مرأى الجميع . انا المواطن السوري احمد زينو اعلن اضرابي المفتوح عن الطعام تضامنا…
In November 2013, the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) hosted a workshop on civil military relations in times of armed struggle. The workshop examined regime change efforts in Kosovo, South Africa and Syria for lessons learned. How does building unity…