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Hassan Hassan
Hassan Hassan
The situation inside Syria has just gotten a lot more complex.
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Hassan Hassan
The situation inside Syria has just gotten a lot more complex.
HRW
A Syrian government airstrike using fuel-air explosive bombs hit outside a secondary school in the opposition-held city of Raqqa on September 29, killing at least 14 civilians. At least 12 of those killed were students attending their first day of classes.
David Kenner
Charles Lister Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
In a video issued late on September 24, the chief political leader of Liwa al-Tawhid, Abdulaziz Salameh, speaking on behalf of 12 other Islamist militant groups in Syria, condemned the “unrepresentative” Western-backed Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and called explicitly for “an Islamic framework based on sharia [Islamic law].”.
Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol and Dr. Mego Terzian
Residents of Ghouta, in eastern Damascus, continue to face daily bombings and a blockade that deprives them of the food and medicine that they need to survive.
David Kenner
BEIRUT - It was Sept. 4, and the war drums were sounding in Syria. The United States appeared to be on the verge of launching strikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Shane Farrell and Ayman Mhanna
The following is an excerpt from the report “Journalists’ Security in War Zones: Lessons from Syria,” written and researched by the Beirut-based SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom. .
Maryam Jamshidi
Syria is witnessing an improbable social, cultural and political renaissance driven by individuals and organizations operating at the grassroots level through various innovative political, artistic and tech platforms.
Yasmin Khaled
The following was first posted by the Revolution Leadership Council in Damascus.
Cale Salih
The mainstream Syrian political opposition failed for nearly two years to draw in the Kurdish National Council (KNC), a muddled coalition of 16 Syrian Kurdish political parties.
Tara Maller
We recently witnessed crisis diplomacy unfold as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reached an agreement regarding chemical weapons in Syria.
Hassan Hassan
If the United States wants to move against jihadists in Syria, there has never been a better time. Tensions between moderate rebel groups and extremist forces are coming to a head across the country.
Syria Untold Editing Team
I woke up this morning in the resilient city of Damascus to find a pigeon sitting at my kitchen stove. Perhaps it’s a ray of hope in this weary city. But the scene is telling: the pigeon threw its caution to the wind in search of food. It is the ultimate quest in a time of war.
Syria Deeply Staff
Annie Sparrow Deputy Director of the Human Rights Program, Icahn School of Medicine
Last week, New York Times columnist Nick Kristof nominated Syria as the world capital of human suffering. It’s not just the direct consequences of war: the bombs, rockets, artillery, bullets and now gas rained down upon the civilian population.
Jared Genser
Washington – Last night, President Obama gave an impassioned and reasoned plea to a skeptical American public about why it is so critical for the United States to respond to Bashar al-Assad’s deploying of chemical weapons against his own people.
Charles Lister Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate on September 4 that “bad guys” and “extremists” make up between 15 and 25 percent of the Syrian insurgency. The reality is far more complicated – with enormous significance for the prospect of U.S. military action.
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Julian Lindley-French
President Obama’s 31 August decision to authorize but delay a military strike against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the wake of the alleged use of chemical weapons is an important moment. Taken together with the 29 August decision of Britain’s Parliament to deny Prime Minister Cameron permission to use force two changes are apparent. .
Barry Pavel and Alex Ward
After a week of signaling that a US-led attack on Syria was imminent to punish the Assad regime for the inhumane and internationally condemned use of chemical weapons against his own people, US President Barack Obama announced two decisions Saturday:
Adrian Pabst
Nick Taranto
In May of 2008, as a 24-year-old student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, I went on a two-week, student-led trip to Lebanon and Syria. As part of that trip, we had unprecedented access to Bashar Al Assad and his wife Asma.
Matthew Barber
Ma’loula (or Maaloula) is one of those unique places you may be lucky to visit—or perhaps were lucky to have visited, were you fortunate enough to have been in Syria before the conflict began.
Joyce Karam / Al-Arabiya
Despite the relatively good start that the Obama administration is having with Congress in requesting authorization for military action on Syria, the final outcome will largely depend on the language of the bill and the scope and the cost of the operation that will need to be narrowed down to convince the vast majority of undecided members.
Stratfor
Conventional wisdom says that a weakened Syria would undermine Iran’s regional influence, but a [U.S. military intervention][1] in the country could actually benefit Tehran. The government there has devised a sophisticated strategy for responding to a U.S. attack. Of course, Tehran would activate its militant proxies in the region, including Hezbollah, in the event that the United States launches an attack, but it would also exploit Washington’s visceral opposition to Sunni jihadist and Islamist groups to gain concessions elsewhere.
Amal Hanano
I had two New Year’s resolutions in 2011: to read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Anna was completed by Jan. 25 – just when our lives turned into a 24-hour TV marathon tuned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square as the world watched a dictator fall in 18 short days.
Taufiq Rahim
On Aug. 2, 1990, a Saddam Hussein-led Iraq launched a bombing campaign and invasion of Kuwait. Part of the decision was the thought that the U.S., facing its own economic issues at home and a perceived passivity towards disputes in the Arab world, would not react with force. .
Rasha Othman
Syrian activists have been at the forefront of media coverage on Syria. We have blogged, tweeted, shared, debated and obsessed over every piece of Syria news disseminated.
Max Fisher
The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad’s suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Lara Setrakian Co-Founder and Executive Editor, News Deeply
One year ago, my team came together to build Syria Deeply, a platform dedicated to spreading knowledge about the state of Syria’s conflict. We were a volunteer army, an impassioned group of journalists and technologists dedicated to helping explain the Syria crisis to a U.S. audience.
Jeremy Barnicle
The camp at Zataari is one of the largest and now best-known refugee camps in the world.
Barak Barfi Research Fellow, New America Foundation
With the United States poised to strike Syria, the exiled opposition is elated. After more than two years of pleading for international intervention, their supplications have finally been answered. But inside Syria, the mood is less optimistic.
Phil Sands
ANTAKYA / United Nations weapons inspectors will today examine the site of a chemical weapons attack in Damascus that killed hundreds, as the first signs of finger-pointing inside the Assad regime began to emerge.
Amal Hanano
It’s August 16. A man holding a camera runs between tall concrete buildings. A dark gray cloud breaks the blue summer sky of Aleppo. He moves towards the smoke while men run in the opposite direction.
Brown Moses
Over the past few weeks, it seems all sides in the Syrian conflict have come to agree that sarin has been used in Syria, they just disagree over who used it. .
Janine di Giovanni
Human memory is short and terribly fickle. In the immediate aftermath of a genocide, ethnic cleansing, systematic rape, or brutal civil war, there is a period when the public will say: never again will we let such tragedies pass.
Robin Yassin-Kassab
To cross the border I had to climb a wall three times my height. It was the most frightening part of my trip into liberated Syria.
Elizabeth Dickinson
KUWAIT CITY / It was about the time summer temperatures started to soar that the startling video began circulating among Shiites in Kuwait.
Clarissa Ward
Thomas McGee
The last week has seen a large output of articles in the international press on clashes between Islamists and Kurdish groups in the Northern regions of Syria.
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