Pressure is growing for world leaders to respond to Syria’s brutal crackdownon anti-regime protests. Earlier this week, the United Nations’ Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said more than 5,000 people had been killed in Syria…
On Friday, Nov. 25, Mona Ghorayib woke up on a metal bed in a tiny room that she didn’t recognize. Someone had boarded up the only window, and a fan was switched on at full blast…
Member of the Syrian National Council and prominent opposition figure Monzer Makhous refuted the popular belief that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is backed by the Alawite community. “The fact that Alawites have never been able to…
Thousands of refugees fleeing the escalating violence in Syria are seeking shelter in Libya, a country still recovering from its own civil war. Buses from Damascus, crammed with Syrian families, are arriving daily into the east…
BAGHDAD — At the very moment American troops are pulling out of Iraq, the revolt in neighboring Syria is threatening to disrupt the fragile political consensus that U.S. forces spent most of the past few years…
Evidence received from reports, videos and information obtained by activists on the ground in Homs, indicate that the regime paving the way to commit a massacre in order to extinguish the Revolution in Homs and to…
December 7, 2011 This summer, NPR told the story of a young man in Syria who worked a regular job by day and was a protester by night. At the end of that story, the activist…
BEIRUT (AP) Dozens of bodies were dumped in the streets of a Syrian city at the heart of the country’s nearly 9-month-old uprising, a grim sign that sectarian bloodshed is escalating as the country descends further…
Hamas ordered the departure of nearly all its staff at its Damascus headquarters by next week following pressure from Turkey and Qatar, two regional allies trying to isolate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad amid an eight-month crackdown…
DAMASCUS, Syria — During his most recent news conference, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem interrupted the flow of questions by waving a small white piece of paper indicating that he had important news. “I just received a…
A consummate activist, let’s hope my friend’s belief in the power of people is well placed and helps secure her freedom I got an urgent instant message from my good friend Razan Ghazzawi last Tuesday night.…
Famous comedian in Syria, Fadwa Soleiman has been living in hiding since she publicly criticized the Syrian regime on the AL-JAZEERA channel, the 7 of November 2011. Yet this activist who is now leading the protests…
Burhan Ghalioun, the leader of the Syrian National Council, Syria’s main opposition group, spoke with The Wall Street Journal Wednesday at his home in south Paris. It was his first major interview as SNC president. Below,…
PARIS—A Syrian government run by the country’s main opposition group would cut Damascus’s military relationship to Iran and end arms supplies to Middle East militant groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, the group’s leader said, raising…
(Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell said on Friday it would cease operations in Syria to heed new European Union sanctions against Damascus, deepening the international isolation of President Bashar al-Assad imposed over his violent crackdown on…
Many of Syria’s 2.5 million Christians are supporting President Bashar Assad amidst ongoing protests in the country. They prefer a brutal dictator who guarantees the rights of religious minorities to the uncertain future that Assad’s departure…
Editor’s Note: Caitlin Fitz Gerald writes about international affairs and civil-military relations at Gunpowder & Lead. She is currently turning Carl von Clausewitz’s On War into an illustrated children’s book. You can find her on Twitter at caidid. By Caitlin Fitz Gerald – Special…
As Syria faces growing economic sanctions and condemnation over what the United Nations calls “gross human rights violations” for its crackdown on protesters, the BBC’s Jim Muir considers how the country’s immediate neighbours are reacting and…
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood would follow the quasi-secular Turkish republic were it to gain power should President Bashar al-Assad’s regime fall, said Mohammad Shafka, the exiled leader of the outlawed Syrian group. “We…
The Syrian government’s September 22 decision to impose a ban on all imports carrying a tariff rate of 5 percent or more — and the reversal of that measure less than two weeks later — have…
The Syrians have suffered a litany of horrors. Their resistance to Assad’s regime will stand as an exemplar of human courage ‘Be careful what you wish for” will be scribbled on the totalitarian tombstone of the…
Traduit de l’anglais par SouriaHouria. Huit mois se sont à présent écoulés depuis le début de la révolution en Syrie, et il reste encore beaucoup à faire. Une diplomatie nulle et des politiques insignifiantes ont…
(CNN) — Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad looks more isolated with each passing day as his regime continues a bloody eight-month crackdown on pro-democracy protests. His Arab neighbors signaled their displeasure with him this week by suspending…
It’s been eight months now since the start of the Revolution in Syria, and much has yet to be done. Lousy diplomacy and trivial politics have so far cost thousands of people their lives, not to…