Prior to the war in Syria, there were 135,000 Palestinians living inside the Yarmouk Refugee Camp, the largest in Syria. Since the beginning of the revolution, they have been subject to destruction and an on-going vicious…
The real divide is not religious or sectarian but geopolitical; and foreign intervention is not motivated by religious affiliations nor the promotion of democracy. The Great Game being played in Syria is between a broad coalition of US-Israeli-Saudi-Qatari-Turkish interests…
About Event: For many months into the Syrian uprising, the city of Raqqa was accused of not participating in the revolution. However, that didn’t spare it the regime’s brutality, and it has witnessed near daily bombing…
About Event: As a result of increasing distrust between members of the Syrian opposition, and accusations of betrayal between activists on some occasions, members of the Bees of the Coast Movement launched the Yes to Thinking, No to…
Ewa Jasiewicz reports on the plight of the relief efforts in Syria. People walk past damaged buildings in Ma’arrat al Numan, Idlib province in March 2013. Photograph: Getty Images We’re in Ma’arrat al Numan, a front-line…
A group of female detainees in the prison of Adra, Syria, have been on hunger strike since July 1, in response to the negligence of their cases and the absence of approval of their respective trials.…
FRIDAY FILE – AWID interviewed Rajaa Altalli, co-founder and Public Relations Director from the Center for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria (CCSDS) about the impacts of Syria’s humanitarian crisis on women, their priority shift from revolution to…
Surour Sheikhmous, 33, a Syrian activist, has made a habit of stopping by the Center for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, to debate the future of Syria with fellow…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles on the new institutions in areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in the liberated Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus. These reports are designed to highlight the…
(CNN) — The United States faces “a 10-year issue” in Syria as it weighs how deeply it wants to get involved the country’s civil war, the top U.S. military officer warned in an interview that aired…
For the past several weeks in Beirut, I have been inundated with emails and comments from colleagues and observers about developments in Syria. The same goes forJadaliyya’s coverage. Why, the question goes, is coverage thin on Syria?…
(Hatay) – Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee Syria. Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers…
ISTANBUL, June 23, 2013 Originally from Homs, Dr. M. Zaher Sahloul is based in Chicago, where he practices critical care medicine and serves as the president of the Syrian American Medical Society. Over the past year,…
‘I’ve worked in some pretty ugly spots, but coming away from Syria I was really disturbed’, writes Greg Elder. Greg Elder has worked in several trouble spots, including Sudan, but is appalled at what is happening…
The syrian author and jornalist describes how whe sees the situation in Syria. Samar Yazbek on the devastation in Syria: “I saw it with my own eyes and I lost all understanding of logic, justice and…
Why Obama’s small plan to send small arms to the Syrian rebels might fail on all counts. This week, President Barack Obama finally reached the point where he had to decide between something and nothing on…
The Obama administration’s policy on Syria is a strategic disaster that undercuts its entire foreign policy from the Middle East to Asia. If you think I’m exaggerating, read on. Bashar al-Assad – whose exit President Obama…
Tory MP describes visits to dictator’s house for tea… and says 20million face genocide while we do nothing IFIRST met President Assad on a trip to Damascus in 2006. I had asked the Syrian Embassy in…
TEL ABYAD, Syria — I just spent a day in this northeast Syrian town. It was terrifying — much more so than I anticipated — but not because we were threatened in any way by the…
The international community should urge the Syrian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release and drop all charges against a freedom of expression activist and two of his colleagues, 19 regional and international human rights organizations said…
This is the text of an interview with Abu Mohammad an eye witness who survived the massacre of Banyas and narrated on Al-Arabiyah T.V what he saw in Ras-Elnabe’ in Banyas: Abu Mohammad: They allowed people…
Aid Inside Syria: Too Little, But Not Too Late Two years after the Syrian revolution began, there is much wider recognition of the dire humanitarian needs inside the country, and support for expanding cross-border aid activities…
Alawite Syrian Resistance chief Mihraç Ural spoke in a video about the necessity to “cleanse” the Alawite-majority coastal region of Banias, which witnessed mass violence against Sunni residents last week. “Banias must be soon besieged,…
Violence in Syria has made even the Palestinian territory an attractive option for some – putting strain on its infrastructure Omar Ouda, 56, whose family fled from the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus to Gaza. Photograph:…