Coalition official delivers memorandum to Russian embassy in Brussels denouncing Moscow’s actions against the Syrian people Chairman of the Syrian National Coalition’s Legal Committee Haitham al-Maleh said Russia’s aggression against Syria is “illegitimate and illegal according…
MEE sits down with Nagham al-Ghadri, vice president of the Syrian National Coalition, in Beirut. Nagham al-Ghadri joined the Syrian opposition movement shortly after protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad broke out and then escalated. Spurred…
Moscow’s efforts to prop up the Assad regime with military support is bound to backfire, Coalition president tells Turkish reporters. Russia has sent 2,000 mercenaries to Syria, hoping to raise the number of fighters to 20,000,…
Three years after her father’s disappearance, 24-year-old Raneem Ma’touq tells Syria Deeply her family’s story. Raneem Ma’touq is the daughter of Khalil Ma’touq, a human rights lawyer and the director of the Syrian Centre for Legal…
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics, which…
On October 7 at the “Bundespressekonferenz” in Berlin, we present the results of the first major survey amongst Syrian refugees in Germany. In the past two weeks, we surveyed nearly 900 Syrian refugees why they have…
Many never make it across the world’s deadliest border. Yet, so far this year, more than 480,000 migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea have fled conflict in Northern Africa and the Middle East with hopes for a new, safer life in Europe. Those who survive the perilous…
Tens of thousands of Syrians are fleeing from the Assad regime’s bombs. Years ago, the establishment of a no-fly zone could have saved their country. These tender, young faces — the faces of boys, 16 years…
The bombing of Shanshrah, seen from Kafranbel. (Courtesy of Raed Fares) An area of over six square kilometers ignited all of a sudden. The whole region was ablaze in seconds. Kafranbel-based Raed Fares said he has…
Caesar, the Syrian military photographer who smuggled shocking evidence of torture out of Assad’s dungeons, tells his story for the first time. For two years, between 2011 and 2013, the former Syrian military photographer known only…
Well into its fifth year, the conflict in Syria only seems to worsen every day, the news impossible to foresee from one month to the next, with warnings from the UN, NGOs and charities growing ever…
From exile in Paris, Samar Yazbek has written a powerful and moving account of her devastated homeland. Here, she tells how she risked her life to cross illegally back into Syria… As she sits at a…
Relatives verify reports of award winning cartoonist’s death under torture by regime forces following his arrest in 2013 For the second time in a year, news has spread of the death of cartoonist Akram Ruslan in…
Reports from Damascus and Tehran state high-ranking Iranians have expanded their purchase activities in the capital since last June The Syrian Commission for Media has issued a report regarding purchases and long-term renting carried out by…
Syria Deeply spoke to Syrians as refugees flee the ongoing civil war in droves with the hope of gaining asylum in Europe. Often paying smugglers their life savings, the refugees risk their lives along the way…
Few of the growing numbers of people fleeing war intend to stay in the country A lack of opportunities and the long waits for asylum requests are among reasons cited Hared and Dareen Al Sadi are…
10 septembre – 13 septembre du 10 septembre à 18:00 au 13 septembre à 20:00 L’Amour 24 rue Molière, 93170 Bagnolet Evenement Facebook L’artiste syrien Omar Ibrahim expose ses œuvres à la galerie L’Amour à partir…
Brasília (AFP) – Brazil will welcome Syrian refugees with “open arms,” President Dilma Rousseff said, as various Latin American nations sought to help with the human tidal wave fleeing the war-torn country. In a video message…
“Is this drowned child one of the crowd of refugees that frighten you, Mr. Cameron?” The Independent asks the British Prime Minister The photo of a Syrian child who was found drowned on a “paradise beach”…
A child in Aleppo, Syria, is asked to draw a picture at school. He paints a world on fire: helicopters dropping bombs, a house collapsing into rubble. He draws himself, crying on his knees, surrounded by…
Nearly one in five people in Lebanon is a Syrian national – the highest refugee population per capita in the world. Struggling to cope with the weight of 1.1 million Syrian refugees, Lebanon has employed a variety of…
Will the civilian death toll during recent attacks on Douma motivate the world to action in Syria? My Twitter feed is full of photos from the Syrian government’s airstrikes on the market in Douma this past…
British underground artist Banksy shocked the world after releasing the trailer to his newest exhibition space, Dismaland. The anti-Disneyland “bemusement park” features more than 50 artists from around the world, which includes works from six Arab artists. The attraction,…
Syrian artist and activist Fadia Afashe and actor Jay Abdo discuss the humanitarian crisis that prompted them to flee their country and resettle in the US as refugees. source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1x6_XaVIE date : 12/02/2015