The foreign ministers of countries neighbouring Syria were due to meet in the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees near the Jordanian town of Mafraq today, Sunday, an official source...
May 4, 2014 Wadah Khanfar
A crucial shift is now taking place in the Middle East towards the conflict in Syria. The Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's call for Arab-Iranian-Turkish dialogue over the crisis and...
May 4, 2014 Ali al-Bayanouni
The future of democracy in Syria is the subject of many concerns: people are worried about the treatment of minorities and women, possible acts of revenge, and the likelihood...
May 4, 2014 Wadah Khanfar
While Russia and China were using their veto to abort a UN security council resolution against the Syrian regime, the news of a massacre in Homs came thick and...
Arab dictators were not the only ones to have been taken aback by the scale and speed of events in the region. Their allies were also caught off guard....
On Friday 18 March more than 2,000 citizens staging a demonstration in the southern Syrian city of Deraa were confronted with live bullets, water cannon, fire trucks and clubs....
The only solution to Syria's three year war is to use military force to overthrow President Bashar Al-Assad then opposing parties can negotiate a political solution, the head of...
Syria has failed to meet its own self-imposed deadline to complete the removal of its chemical weapons arsenal, with the UN announcing that Syria still maintains 7.5 per cent...
The occupation of freed areas by terrorist groups is based on strengthening Bashar Al-Assad's regime in these areas, Syrian National Coalition spokesman Louay Safi said yesterday. Safi said that...
Mohammad Riyad Al-Shaqfa, head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, recently said that the international community has remained idle as Bashar Al-Assad's crimes go unchecked. He claimed this reaction...
Syrian activists said Saturday they found a mass grave belonging to detainees who were held in a Military Intelligence prison in the city, Resalah news website reported. Meanwhile, Free...
The Syrian Foreign Ministry yesterday accused the United Nations envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi of obstructing the Geneva II peace talks between the regime and opposition forces. Syria's state...
The United Nations Security Council yesterday called for an investigation into reports that chlorine gas was used to bomb Syrian towns, leaving many dead and wounded. Nigeria's Ambassador to...
The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) has launched a polio vaccination campaign in Syria in collaboration with the International Federation of Physicians (AID) and the Turkish Waqf Youth. Hundreds...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi have condemned the announcement that a presidential election will soon take place in Syria,...
Syrian state media reported on Monday that a presidential election in Syria will take place in six weeks, in which Bashar Al-Assad is likely to be granted a third...
Bashar Al-Assad's plan to hold presidential elections in the current circumstances undermine efforts to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, the United Nations said yesterday. The...
The US has evidence that a toxic chemical substance, probably chlorine, may have been used in Syria this month and is examining evidence whether the Syrian government is responsible;...
The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces claimed on Sunday that forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad have suffered heavy losses during the country's three years of...
French President Francois Hollande said in an interview with Europe 1 radio Sunday that France has information regarding the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons. Responding to a question...
Head of the joint Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations mission for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons Sigrid Kaag announced Saturday that the Syrian regime shipped...
Syrian activists have accused the regime of dropping lethal explosive barrels on the most condensed residential areas in the northern countryside of Hama. More than 100 cases were reported...
The leader of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) Walid Jumblatt said that the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is suffering from paranoia and Syria is heading to "complete disintegration."...
In her daily press briefing, the spokeswoman of the US State Department Jennifer Psaki said that the United States "is deeply concerned by the dire and tragic situation in...

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May 3, 2014 Raya Al-Jadir
Oh My Sweet Land is a play set in a kitchen that explores the Syrian revolution turned civil war through the hour long narration of Syrian refugees' stories via...

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The ten-day registration period for presidential candidates in Syria has come to an end. Bashar Al-Assad was the last of seven to register their candidacy at the Supreme Court...

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May 3, 2014 Dr Burhan Ghalioun
It shouldn't come as a surprise that the Syrian regime is organising presidential elections despite the situation Syria is suffering under, and that the point of dispute is not...

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Nazem Khater, an aging apple farmer sits on his veranda looking out at the agricultural lands of Majdal Shams, in the occupied Golan. His father, and his father's father,...

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April 27, 2014 |
Patrick Sykes A bodyguard for a senior member of Fatah Al-Islam was shot dead yesterday, in the latest in a series of assassinations sparked by the Syrian war that have rocked...

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We can no longer ignore the fact that we are witnessing a new cold war at an international level and that it is being led by the United States...

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April 18, 2014 |
Samira Shackle On Friday 11th April, there was an attack on Kafr Zeita, a rebel-held village 125 miles north of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Agreement between the Syrian regime and the...
Syrian rebels have seized shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles from regime forces in spite of Israel and the Syrian regime's best efforts to prevent such strategic developments from happening, an Israeli...