The website Humanrights.gov published this before-and-after photo of what they believe is a mass grave dug after last week’s massacre in Houla, Syria. According to Reuters, the website is run by the bureau of the U.S.…
Ever since the horrific May 25th massacre of a hundred and eight civilians (eighty-three of whom were women and children) in the Syrian village of Houla, Kofi Annan has repeatedly expressed his frustration over the spiralling…
Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled fromcarnage and violence at home to neighbouring Jordan are draining the desert kingdom’s meager water resources, officials and experts say. It is a new challenge for Jordan, one of the world’s…
Bashar al-Assad is now history. Ignore his bluster towards Kofi Annan’s diplomatic mission. The issue is not whether, but how he will be forced out, and the answer is surprisingly encouraging. Recently, there has been a remarkable…
The shabiha have been blamed for the massacre in Houla, but who is their paymaster, and who gives them orders? “Women, children and old men were shot dead,” Syria’s foreign ministry spokesman, Jihad Makdissi, told reporters…
The man who has represented the interests of Syrians living in Southern California as honorary consul general there has resigned from the volunteer position. Last Friday’s massacre in Houla was “the tipping point,” Hazem Chehabi tells…
Security forces in Syria are using rape against both men and women as a tool to spread fear among the opposition, victims and human rights groups have told the Daily Telegraph. In the jails and…
Journalist Salameh Kail A prominent journalist has told Amnesty International how Syrian government forces tortured and detained him in deplorable conditions before deporting him to Jordan on Monday. Salameh Kaileh, a 57-year-old Jordanian national of Palestinian…
Because foreign journalists have been virtually banned from Syria during the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s regime, news coverage has relied heavily on citizen journalists and international reporters working with sources inside the country. Syrians who communicate…
Thanks for signing my petition, “The Syrian Regime: To Stop The Execution of Engineer Muhammad Alhariri.” Winning this campaign is now in your hands. We need to reach out to as many friends as we…
Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn of the death sentence passed today on the citizen journalist Mohammed Abdelmawla al-Hariri for “high treason and contacts with foreign parties”. He was arrested on 16 April just after giving an interview to…
(Reuters) – Syria‘s state media is fighting hard to cast the country’s unrest as an Islamist terrorist conspiracy rather than a popular uprising against the dynastic rule of President Bashar al-Assad. State television airs interviews with men confessing…
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the provisional release of eight journalists and bloggers who were arrested by intelligence officials during a raid on the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) in Damascus on 16 February.…
Reporters Without Borders is horrified to have learned of the death three days ago of the Syrian citizen journalist Abdul Ghani Kaakeh who was deliberately targeted during a demonstration in the Salah Al-Din district of the northwestern city…
Fourteen months after the spark of the Syrian revolution was lit, multiple forms of unprecedented repression not previously imposed by a regime on its people who simply demand freedom, democracy and end to decades of tyranny…
Despite danger, students joining protests against Assad’s regime Yaman Qadri, an enchanting looking Syrian teenager, would like us, as part of the international community, to keep pressuring the Assad regime in Syria to open the door…
Here and there the protest movement is resurgent—and it still disavows violence THE trunk of a tree in one of the orchards ringing the cool mountain town of Zabadani, close to the border with Lebanon, is…
Little more than a year into their terrible ordeal, the Syrians are a people disillusioned. “We have been forsaken by the world,” a noted figure of the opposition recently told me in Istanbul. Days later, in…
Looting, fighting eat at archaeological heritage. By Zeina Karam Associated Press BEIRUT – On its towering hilltop perch, the Krak des Chevaliers, one of the world’s best preserved Crusader castles, held off a siege by the…
Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s senior crisis adviser, was inSyria for 10 days during the second half of April. Rovera has worked at Amnesty International for 20 years and has extensive experience of working in conflict zones, including…
In a hospital in Lebanon, the casualties of the Syrian uprising recount tales of loss and woe “Baba Amr has only two doors, one to death and one to freedom,” reads Manar’s latest work, scrawled on…
2 May 2012 Executions, Destruction of Property, and Arbitrary Detentions (New York) – Syrian government forces killed at least 95 civilians and burned or destroyed hundreds of houses during a two-week offensive in northern Idlib governorate…
OUTSIDERS have many good reasons for not wading militarily into Syria’s steadily bloodier mire. The country is not like Libya: isolated, sparsely inhabited and vulnerable from the air. It contains a much bigger, more densely populated…