In view of the continued brutal repression and violation of human rights by the Government of Syria, on 14 November 2011, the Council adopted Decision 2011/735/CFSP amending Decision 2011/273/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria(6) providing for an…
For more than eight months, Bashar Al-Assad’s regime has not ceased to savagely repress the Syrian people, who peacefully request the reconstitution of their rights – with the vision of establishing a pluralist and democratic state…
Three U.S. senators are asking Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to investigate recent reports that Internet-monitoring gear made by two California-based companies has found its way to Syria. In a letter (PDF) made public today, the…
European Union Tuesday announced the names of the 18 Syrian individuals accused of supporting or having links to the eight-month crackdown on the uprising. The list, signed by Catherine Ashton, the president of the EU Council,…
Russia will honor all arms contacts with Syria despite continuing violence against anti-government protesters in the country, a senior military official said on Sunday. “Since there are no restrictions on the supply of arms to Syria,…
Syrian actress and activist Fadwa Sulayman at a protest in Homs. Footage courtesy Al-Jazeera Fadwa Sulayman, a Syrian actress and opposition activist, made a courageous stand in appearances in the city of Homs, which was…
translated by SouriaHouria The assault that befell the Syrian political figures of the National Coordination Committee in front of the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo is a grave event. It is detrimental the National Council, for which the protestors wanted to express their support, as it is…
As Syria’s crackdown on protests has claimed more than 3,000 lives since March, Italian technicians in telecom offices from Damascus to Aleppo have been busy equipping President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with the power to intercept, scan and…
Reports indicate that the Syrian regime is using American and European technology and software in order to track the communications of the protest movement in the country. Software from the German firm Utimaco has also reportedly…
Translated to English by SouriaHouria The President of the Syrian National Council, Burhan Ghalioun, denounced the bloody spiral into which the regime has shut itself and announced the forthcoming publication of a charter of the opposition…
The restive west Syrian city of Homs has become has become a focal point for protests against President Bashar al-Assad – and it is also now one of the areas hardest hit by the state’s bloody…
Urgent call by Homs coordination committees and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights – World Service Homs 5 – Nov – 2011 Homs province: A disaster area and a disaster strickencity: On the 18th of…
Bashar al-Assad is trying to snuff opposition in Syria by silencing the media and blocking access to Facebook and other Internet services. But author Rula Jebreal says the strong-arm tactics cannot thwart a people committed to…
BEIRUT (AP) — Violence erupted Saturday in the restive Syrian city of Homs, killing at least five people as tank shells slammed into an area that has turned into one of the main centers of both…
Fariba Mavaddat, euronews: Over the past year, Middle East and North Africa have seen monumental change sin their histories. As citizens across the region call for their voices to be heard and demand democracy, euronews spoke…
NTAKYA, Turkey — Once one of Syria’s closest allies, Turkey is hosting an armed opposition group waging an insurgency against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, providing shelter to the commander and dozens of members of…
In the end, after the terror, torture, and murder, the tyrant rules with his face. The people cannot escape it, his image is all-consuming, devouring our streets, our walls, our shops, our screens. His face erases…
(Sunday, October 30, 2011) “If the Arab spring was interpreted as a mere social struggle for political reform and democracy, then it would offer no ideological gain for Iran’s Islamic leaders against their enemy. The ideological…
Editor’s Note: Soner Cagaptay is a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and is the co-author, with Scott Carpenter, of Regenerating the U.S.-Turkey Partnership. By Soner Cagaptay – Special to CNN The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) will dominate…
In his first interview with a Western journalist since Syria’s seven-month uprising began, President Assad told The Sunday Telegraph that intervention against his regime could cause “another Afghanistan”. Western countries “are going to ratchet up the…
BEIRUT/ALEPPO, 27 October 2011 (IRIN) – Mufid’s (second name withheld) small manufacturing business in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Aleppo, Syria’s commercial capital, used to run on trust because he would receive goods and…
25 October 2011 The Syrian government has turned hospitals into instruments of repression in its efforts to crush opposition, Amnesty International said today in a new report. The 39-page report Health Crisis: Syrian Government Targets the…
The US has withdrawn its ambassador to Syria over fears for his safety in the face of what officials said was a growing campaign of incitement against him being orchestrated by the regime. The Syrian government quickly ordered…
Ramy al-Dow, 21, draws his thin-striped V-neck sweater up to his neck and crosses his arms over his chest in a futile bid to shield himself from the piercing chill cloaking this mountainous southern Turkish village…