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Syria inks oil, gas deal with Russia firm

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…

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Don’t Get in Bed With Assad – By EMILE HOKAYEM

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…

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Assad’s secret oil lifeline: Iraqi crude from Egypt – By Julia Payne

(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…

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British doctor dies in detention in Syria

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…

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On Hassan Hassan, or the most beautiful place on earth, Yarmouk Camp! by Salim Salamah

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…

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Syria’s children are freezing to death and Gazans are drowning as Arab billionaires turn a blind eye – by Abdel Bari Atwan

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…

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What Orwell can tell us about Syria

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…

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UNICEF UK presents “No Place Like Home” with Ewan McGregor, Rita Ora…

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…

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An International Failure: The Syrian Refugee Crisis – by Amnesty International

“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…

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An Interview with a Journalist Who Was Tortured for Investigating Hezbollah – By Oz Katerji

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…

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Who are Assad’s fascist supporters? – By Leila Shrooms

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…

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In Dialog with Edward Said Subhi Hadidi (Arabic)

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…

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Syrian HR report on shelling of universities and schools

Shelling Universities and Schools….. students killed in their classes-1

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Who’s who: The Interim Government Ministers – By The Syrian Observer

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…

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Raqqa: A Journey of Suffering from the Regime to ISIS – By The Syrian Observer

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…

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Syria: On the Way to Genocide? – Charles Glass

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…

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Ousting Assad may be only the beginning – By David Ignatius

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…

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DEMANDING AN END TO THE CRIMES AND ABUSES TOWARDS JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA WORKERS IN SYRIA

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…

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Urgent appeal for the release of prisoners of conscience and all detainees in Syria

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…

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SYRIA – TWO SWEDISH JOURNALISTS REPORTED MISSING NEAR LEBANESE BORDER

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…

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‘Take Your Portion’: A Victim Speaks Out About Rape in Syria – Lauren Wolfe

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…

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Protesting an Assad apologist

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…

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As Syrian Chemical Attack Loomed, Missteps Doomed Civilians

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…

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Syrian Icon Hussein Harmoush still alive

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…

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