Iran provides military support to President Bashar Al Assad by way of regular clandestine flights between Tehran and Damascus, according to a Syrian official with knowledge of air traffic between the two capitals. Up to three…
Ten days ago a refugee boat with Syrian refugees sank outside of Alexandria, Egypt. Those in the boat say they were eventually heading to Sweden, as this country grants permanent residence to all Syrians who make…
ARAB REFORM INITIATIVE – NEW PAPER The impossible partition of Syria Mustafa Khalifa October 2013 The idea of a partition of Syria along sectarian boundaries has been circulating among pro-government circles, reaching the ears of Western…
Five photographers who have borne witness to Syria’s civil war tell the stories behind their defining images of the conflict All war is brutal and dangerous, but for the journalists and photographers assigned to cover it…
Snipers belonging to the Assad regime in Syria are shooting pregnant women and their unborn babies in a disturbing “game” of target practice, a British surgeon has claimed. By Bonnie Malkin, and Ruth Sherlock in Beirut 3:18PM BST…
I am saddened to write that Cartoonists Rights Network reports that Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan has been executed by the Syrian regime after a sham trial. Click on the photo to see a larger view. That’s me sitting…
Human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh bemoans the West’s indifference to Assad’s crimes, its focus on chemical weapons but not on the starving children in the areas besieged by Assadist forces, and its failure to arm the…
When she was brought to a field hospital in rebel-held Moadamia, one mile north of Damascus, Syria’s capital, Rana Obaid had all the signs of severe malnutrition—a bloated belly, glassy eyes, hollow cheeks, and bloodied gums.…
With his staunch refusal to play the political game, Ayman Abdelnour is one of the more credible voices in the Syrian opposition. A close university friend of Bashar al-Assad, Ayman Abdelnour served as an adviser to al-Assad during…
12 October 2013 «Where are the secular rebels?» wonders one apprehensive Western «leftist», whose main task has become to emulate his Islamophobic counterpart on the right by counting the number of beards he sees in a YouTube…
At the side of a dusty unpaved road in the centre of Domiz camp, Lukman stands talking to his colleagues, whilst puffing on his cigarette. With his low-waist jeans, short-sleeved shirt and tattooed tiger on his…
The Syrian regime and its various security bodies have not lingered in arresting children and put them in jails and expose them to all sorts of harsh ill-treatments. VDC has documented 997 cases of boys arrest…
Untitled. Artist: Tammam Azzam With over 120,000 people killed in Syria in under three years, sometimes it seems like there’s no words to describe the brutality of the war — which may be why Syrians are turning…
Syrians refugees thought Egypt would be safe. They were wrong. Long before the start of the Arab Spring, Syrians in the southern town of Saqba had close ties with Egyptians in Damietta. For generations, the two…
1. In early June 2011, some three months into the uprising against the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Syrian government forces began preparing for a large-scale assault on Jisr al-Shughour, a rebellious border town sixty-five…
This video shows the bad condition of the children in the countryside of Damascus, Bait Sahm, and the lack of food and medicine due to the continuous tight siege imposed on the area by the Syrian…
A resolution ordering the elimination of Syria’s chemical arms is “a disgrace for the United Nations,” opposition figures said in Paris, arguing it was making leader Bashar al-Assad “legitimate” again. “This agreement is a disgrace…
The Creative Memory The revolution established a space for ingenuity that has astounded us, the Syrians, before even making its mark on the rest of the world, and we wonder, where had all this talent in…
As world leaders scurry about New York during this week’s U.N. General Assembly, hyperventilating and bloviating over what to do about Syira, Bashar al-Assad is breathing easy. Though a deal seems imminent between Washington and Moscow…
One can only wonder about the timing of this series of acts which aim only to increase the people’s concerns about a future Syria if Assad has been toppled The Islamist extremist groups have made further…
Many people forgot today how the Syrian revolution started and why. Many lost track and other only knew about Syria after the revolution was called “civil war”. Thats why this video comes to remind people how the…
The UN inspectors investigating the chemical weapons attack on two suburbs in Damascus last month weren’t supposed to point the finger at the party responsible for the killings. But even so, the Sellstrom report revealed key…
The rebel attack earlier this month on the Syrian village of Maaloula heightened worries that the conflict there is becoming increasingly sectarian, with some members of the historic Christian community there fleeing and saying churches had…
Bashar al-Assad cannot be trusted on any promises over chemical weapons and it will be a decade before the world can be confident they are out of his reach, one of his former senior diplomats has…