After his escape from the besieged city of Homs, photographer Paul Conroy tells Channel 4 News: “It’s systematic slaughter, not a war.” Mr Conroy, a freelancer and filmmaker who was working for the Sunday Times in…
Stephen J. Hadley, a principal at the RiceHadley Group, was national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration. The moral case for arming Syrians seeking their freedom has become overwhelming. The world has rarely seen…
“We are not pretending that the human rights situation in Syria is perfect. . . . We are aware that there is a regression in the quality of services usually provided by the government to the population by the regions…
REYHANLI, Turkey – Here on the border between Turkey and Syria, evidence abounds that Bashir Al-Assad is winning. Despite widespread rumors, no organized effort is under way to arm rebel fighters. The opposition “Free Syrian Army”…
The few Syrian police brave enough to speak out or defect face dire consequences The protesters were unarmed, posing no threat, offering no provocation. When the order came to open fire, many among the security forces…
It has become a common refrain to argue that the options for the United States and the international community in Syria range from bad to worse. There is simply no silver bullet or magic solution to…
The city near the Turkish border has been in a standoff with President Bashar Assad’s forces for months. It keeps fighting, and keeps digging graves. Mourners in Maarat Numan, Syria, gather around the bodies of people…
Charlotte McDonald-Gibson in Damascus talks to an activist who survived 21 weeks’ interrogation by Syria’s security forces It was a single egg that made Jolan, a 28-year-old activist, realise he was going to survive Syria’s notorious…
Syrian Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Mazen Darwish and other detained activists The undersigned Organisations call on the Syrian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mazen Darwish, a prominent Syrian human rights defender and Director…
A special corespondent for The Times shares his dramatic account of a peaceful funeral that spiralled into bloodshed and terror The funeral possession had been joined by thousands of Syrians, filling the street in central Damascus.…
Thanks to the marvels of modern technology, members of the resistance movement inside Syria last week were able to have a secure conversation with a small group of foreign-policy mavens in Washington. What they told us…
The shelling of Homs in Syria by government troops continues, despite the international condemnation. As evidence of the deepening tension in the country, elite forces have also stormed part of the capital Damascus. Middle East expert…
Verse 1 Sometimes it’s better for me to listen to some words/ before (as) I talk about my people’s problems Sometimes it’s better to zip my mouth(to be quite)/ when allover the world smells like under…
The Assad regime in Syria has killed over 7,000 people since March of 2011. And yet China remains as one of the only countries on the U.N. Security Council that has not supported Syrians’ struggle for…
China will not protect the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad, Premier Wen Jiabao said, after Beijing drew international ire for vetoing a UN resolution on the country. Wen’s comments, during an EU-China summit on Tuesday,…
In a town near Homs residents walk a fine line every Friday between fear of the Assad regime and the courage to fight it Just after noon in this rebel-held Syrian town, demonstrators took to the…
Les paroles de la chanson : Moving’ on up, rising like true 3arabs Ousting Mubaraks, ya, like who Barak? Enough with em they too corrupt Taking all our rights and pocketing the butter What a load…
Revolutionary Council of Homs An Appeal for Help To Syrians everywhere, to Arabs and Muslims, to the entire World: For 11 months the residents of Homs specifically, and Syrians generally, have been facing a brutal…
click on the link to see a video subtitled by SouriaHouria on the medical disaster in Homs English subtiles : http://www.universalsubtitles.org/fr/videos/UuSzLKiNbYCY/info/مشفى%20ميداني%20و%20تقرير%20ابو%20جعفر%20عن%20الوضع%20الطبي/
Three months after the onset of the Syrian revolution, Arab intellectual Burhan Ghalioun said in response to a question about the silent majority, “I believe that there actually is a significant, not-so-small group of Syrians who…
Unlike the former rebels in Libya, those in Syria are fragmented and don’t control even a corner of the country. There is one thing that everyone agrees about Syria – that President Bashar al-Assad will go.…
This is an appeal to all human beings : SAVE US ! States, governments, regimes, even the United Nations do not wish to rescue us. We, the Syrian people, are being decimated. We call upon all…