Damascus — Damascus signed an oil and gas deal with a Russian company Wednesday which will allow for the first-ever exploration off Syria’s coast. The agreement was signed by Syrian Oil Minister Suleiman Abbas, Syria’s General…
Beirut — One might think that America’s policy toward Syria couldn’t get any worse, but the rise of extremists there is generating dangerous thinking in Western capitals. High-level advisers and former officials have recently started to…
(Reuters) – The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has received substantial imports of Iraqi crude oil from an Egyptian port in the last nine months, shipping and payments documents show, part of an under-the-radar trade…
A British surgeon, imprisoned in Syria for over a year, has died in detention, his family has told the BBC. Dr Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old orthopaedic surgeon from Streatham, south London, travelled to the city of…
A million thanks for the help of Mary Hassan Ali Rizzo in this piece. (Whoever tells his story, inherits the land of speech and thus possesses the key to the meaningful) Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian Poet I…
In refugee camps across Jordan and Turkey Syrian children are freezing to death and their peers in the Gaza Strip are drowning while the Arab countries, most notably the wealthy ones, insist on turning a blind…
The author of 1984 and Animal Farm probably would not have stayed silent on Assad’s Syria There is always a danger in attributing opinions about modern events to the dead. We cannot say with absolute certainty…
Text WARM to 70111 to donate £3 to UNICEF UK’s Syria Winter Appeal. Donate by credit card at http://www.unicef.org.uk/syria(including viewers from outside the UK). In this short film Ewan McGregor, Michael Sheen, Tom Hiddleston, Emma Bunton, Rita…
“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century – a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.” António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Syria, 3 September 2013.1 Introduction…
Rami Aysha was investigating Hezbollah’s curious practice of selling arms to the Syrian rebels – despite sending fighters to aid the side of Assad – when he was kidnapped at gunpoint. After being held, beaten and interrogated…
The Assad regime has won the support of fascists and far-right nationalist parties and organizations across Europe. These include the National Front (France), Forza Nuova and CasaPound (Italy), Golden Dawn and Black Lilly (Greece), the British…
A JOURNEY OF IDEAS ACROSS IN DIALOG WITH EDWARD SAID International Symposium 31.10.2013 – 02.11.2013 Lectures, Conversations, Performances, Films, Workshop As an influential theorist and public intellectual, Edward W. Said has produced a body of work…
Shelling Universities and Schools….. students killed in their classes-1
Below are the quick bios of the National Coalition’s interim government Ahmad Tomeh: Prime Minister of the Syrian interim government Tomeh is an Islamist and a dentist who first engaged in political work in the early…
Yassin Swehat writes for The Syrian Observer how ISIS managed to control the city.The photo shows a huge banners in Raqqa that orders women to wear hijab By the time ISIS appeared as a movement in…
The commander is thirty-six years old. A few strands of white in his dark, curly hair make him seem older, as do his words. He points to six young men, posed like football players in a…
As al-Qaeda grows more powerful in Syria — seeking “complete control over the liberated areas,” according to a new Syrian rebel intelligence report — moderate opposition leaders are voicing new interest in a political settlement of…
Sign the petition In its last report, Reporters Without Borders considers Syria as “the world’s most dangerous country for journalists. ” Priority targets of the regime and its security forces since 2011, Syrian journalists are now facing…
The undersigned organizations express their utmost concerns as for the fate of tens of thousands of detainees in Syria and urge all parties to guarantee in all circumstances their physical and psychological integrity and release those…
Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about two Swedish journalists, Magnus Falkehed and Niclas Hammarstrom, who went missing in Syria near the Lebanese border on 23 November. The Swedish government confirmed their disappearance yesterday, as the…
Rare testimony about unspeakable rape and torture in Syrian government prisons. Alma Abdulrahman is lying gaunt and unable to move anything below her diaphragm in a hospital bed in Amman. Some bedsores have become so deep…
Well-known activists, scholars and writers are speaking out against providing a forum for Mother Superior Agnès Mariam de la Croix, a Catholic nun in Syria. Among Syrians participating in the struggle against the dictatorship of Bashar…
Miscalculations by the Syrian regime, opposition groups and U.S. government left them all unprepared for the Aug. 21 gas attack. As Syrian troops battled rebel forces in the Damascus suburbs Aug. 18, U.S. eavesdropping equipment began…
A prominent advocate for Syrian detainess said that the Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush ”is still alive, not executed.” Artist Yara Sabri quoted an ex-prisoner freed recently saying the revolution’s icon and first Syrian Army defector is…