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guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 March 2012 17.48 BST Ian Black, Middle East editor Hillary Clinton in Riyadh for talks amid concern Saudi Arabia and Qatar are planning to arm anti-Assad regime rebels. Hillary Clinton (centre) meets King…
LONDON | Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:15pm BST EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Credit: Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl LONDON (Reuters)…
1:46PM BST 30 Mar 2012 Fadwa Suleiman, an actress who became an icon of Syria’s revolution, is furious that her country’s peaceful protest movement has been drawn into armed conflict with the regime. Syrian Alawite actress…
March 30, 2012 1:38 PM FILE-In this March 21, 2012, file photo, anti-Syrian regime activists cover their faces with scarves in the colors of the Syrian revolution flag as they prepare a banner to be held…
By Editorial Board, Published: March 31 IT’S NOW BEEN 10 days since the U.N. Security Council endorsed a six-point plan for Syria created by former secretary general Kofi Annan, and the Obama administration’s ambassador described it…
By Tony Karon | @tonykaron | March 29, 2012 Sebastiano Tomada / Sipa A Free Syrian Army member takes up a position near Idlib, on March 23, 2012. Skepticism by Syrian opposition groups and their foreign…
In a previously unreported turn of events, it has now come to light that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her meeting with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu last month, emphatically dismissed a number of…
(Antakya, Turkey) – Syrian government forces have endangered local residents by forcing them to march in front of the army during recent arrest operations, troop movements, and attacks on towns and villages in northern Syria, Human…
A l’occasion de la journée internationale des femmes, la FIDH (Fédération internationale des ligues des droitsde l’Homme) lance une publication sur le rôle des femmes dans les mouvements de contestations, lesrévolutions et les transitions dans le monde arabe [lien vers le rapport] et propose 20 mesures pour consacrerl’égalité [lien vers les 20 mesures]. Si la situation des femmes varie selon les pays concernés, les menaces convergent. Les femmes sontaujourd’hui confrontées à des tentatives d’exclusion de la vie publique. ===== A travers ce rapport, la FIDH entend adresser un message aux gouvernements, aux opinions publiques et à lacommunauté internationale : les droits des femmes sont une priorité qui doit être au cœur des réformes politiques. On International Women’s Day, FIDH (the International Federation for Human Rights) launches a report on the role of women in protests, revolutions and transitions in the Arab world, proposing…
A visit to Gaziantep, a Turkish city near the Syrian border, suggests that Turkey’s policy on Syria is evolving in parallel to Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown: The more brutally al-Assad acts against its own people, the more…
British newspaper the Guardian recently revealed thousands of personal emails it uncovered between Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma. Amidst the beginnings of civil war brewing in Syria, and the slaughtering of civilians in…
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria is locked in an ominous and violent stalemate: With overwhelming firepower and a willingness to kill, President Bashar al-Assad could hold on to power for months or even years, keeping the opposition…
Syria’s imports of weapons increased nearly sixfold between 2007 and 2011 compared to the previous five-year period, a new study found. The bulk of Syria’s military weapons came from Russia, according to the report from the…
Translated by Free Syrian Translators Mustafa Khalifa – Syrian writer Many observers, political analysts, and even some politicians, have almost reached a consensus that the Assad regime in Syria is about to collapse. They agree that…
DAMASCUS, March 17, 2012 – Martyr journalist Marie Colvin said before she was killed in Homs – Syria on February 24, 2012: “I feel cold and disgusted. I am amazed, how can the world just watch…
Posted on 17th February on www.souriahouria.com Many observers, political analysts, and even some politicians, have almost reached a consensus that the Assad regime in Syria is about to collapse. They agree that the issue right now…
The blame for the situation in Syria does not lie with Russia alone; one of the biggest problems is also the Obama administration, which has squandered a golden opportunity to get rid of a significant obstacle…
BEIRUT — Syria has planted landmines near its borders with Lebanon and Turkey, along routes used by refugees fleeing the strife-torn country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) charged on Tuesday. “The Syrian regime is trying to prevent…
The president’s Syria policy consists of high-minded pronouncements and inaction. Cynics would say that President Obama is simply avoiding conflict (or any controversy, for that matter) to get him through the November election with the claim…
Freedom Convoy For Syria We are independent Syrian youth “living abroad,” we are organizing a peaceful convoy in order to break the information blockade imposed on Syria and to draw world attention to the tragedies of…
Une vidéo secrètement tournée dans un hôpital militaire à Homs, en Syrie, montre que certaines salles servent à torturer les « patients » au lieu de les soigner. C’est la chaîne britannique Channel 4 qui a rendu publiques…
It was damp and cold as Anthony Shadid and I crossed in darkness over the barbed-wire fence that separated Turkey from Syria last month. We were also crossing from peace into war, into the bloodiest conflict…
Yesterday I posted on the limits of diplomacy in Syria given all of the incentives for Bashar al Assad to fight on. The question then is what to do about it. I take the criticisms of…