Mother Superior Agnes Mariam de la Croix (born Fadia al-Laham) is a Catholic nun from Syria who bills herself as an advocate of peace, moderation, negotiations, and reconciliation. As Syria descends into its third year of…
No matter what your position on the potential U.S. strikes on Syria (I’m against), all I ask is, DON’T be a hater who denies the existence of the grassroots youth who began the Syrian revolution out of hope for…
Not everybody likes Louay Hussein, but almost everybody takes him into account In Brief: Louay Hussein has made a strong return to the political scene since talks have warmed up regarding a political solution at…
Syria’s authorities have arrested Rajaa Nasser, a dissident whose National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change is tolerated by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a party official said Thursday. Top NCCDC official Nasser “was arrested on Wednesday” in…
Never mind that the first people who took to the streets demanding the overthrow of the regime also took to the streets protesting against Islamist extremists «Where are the secular rebels?» wonders one apprehensive Western «leftist»,…
A priest who has earned the trust of both the opposition and loyalists has been able to resolve issues with minimal loss This past July, around 50 frightened Christian villagers in a town in an area…
As the regular army intensifies its attacks on Aleppo, it is targeting Syrian media and news providers. A citizen-journalist was shot dead by an army sniper yesterday and two news media were destroyed by army shelling…
Over the last few weeks, the growing plight of Syria’s civilian population has drawn belated international attention to the country’s failing health system. In late October, in the eastern part of the country, the World…
They call themselves an anti-war movement. Set up in 2001 in the UK to counter the Bush Administration’s ‘War on Terror’, the Stop the War Coalition claims to defend civil liberties. And yet their binary…
(Reuters) – As food begins to flow into Bashar al-Assad’s Syria after several months of disruption, some of the president’s close allies stand to make substantial profits from the secretive trade, according to trade and opposition sources with…
The hometown of Swedish tennis legend Bjoern Borg, a place known locally as “Little Baghdad,” is preparing for the next wave of refugees from Syria. The town, Soedertaelje, is one of the reasons Sweden is the…
WRITTEN BY MOHJA KAHF We are going through hell and our friends inside Syria are being torn limb from limb. You come in after three years of it and tell us what our uprising is and…
After more than two years of internal conflict in Syria, a pressing question relates to the practice and legality of arms transfers to both the groups opposing the regime of Assad and the Assad regime itself.…
The revolutionary media center in the city of Raqqa has decided to stop all of its operations, in protest of the continued harassments by ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and the physical lashing of…
The song La dame de Damas, The Lady of Damascus is a Tribute to the Syrian Revolution is a poem by Jean Pierre Filiu music by Catherine Vincent drawings by Paolo Cossi
The Assad regime helped establish the most repressive jihadi groups by releasing its leaders from prison, say activists “They asked for my ID and if I was working with the Free Syrian Army or the [Syrian]…
Publiée le 7 nov. 2013 هل تعلم ان ثلث الشعب السوري مشرد؟ هل تعلم أن ٩٠٪ من أطفال اللاجئين السوريين محرومون من الذهاب إلى المدارس؟ هذه ست حقائق ستفاجئك وتكشف لك الكلفة الإنسانية للصراع السوري. Did you…
Manbij is a poor and rural town of some 200,000 people in north eastern Syria. The city is half an hour’s drive from the border with Turkey and the vital Tishrin Dam. It sits in the…
More than one group affiliated with Al-Qaeda is involved in the conflict in Syria, but with what end in view, asks Bassel Oudat in Damascus Dozens of armed groups are fighting in Syria today, presumably aiming…
Since its start in March 2011, the Syrian revolution has presented a challenge to classical interpretations of political protest and conventional attitudes toward armed insurgencies. The markedly grassroots nature of this popular uprising has made the…
A personal account of Baathist and Islamic indoctrination in Syria’s schools Mine was not a normal childhood with clean schools, happy classrooms, and unbiased education. Much like the 90% or more of Syria’s students, my education in…
Das unabhängige Filmkollektiv Abou Naddara hat ein kurzes Video namens “The Woman in Pants” veröffentlicht, in dem die Lehrerin Souad Nofal über ihren Protest gegen die extremistische Gruppe ISIS (“Islamischer Staat in Irak & Syrien”) berichtet. Dabei spricht…
(This story was reported by a visiting journalist whose name has been withheld for security reasons) (Reuters) – One Syrian security official called it the “Starvation Until Submission Campaign”, blocking food and medicine from entering and…