The Syrian teenager who sprayed four words on a wall and started an uprising
It was a small act of teenage defiance that sparked a revolution, a moment forever inscribed in Syrian history.
Syria's northeast begins supplying oil to Damascus, oil ministry says
Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria have begun providing oil from local fields they manage to the central government in Damascus, Syrian oil ministry spokesman Ahmed Suleiman told Reuters on ...
There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID
At USAID, Trump’s commissars leave a trail of suffering in their wake.
Syrian gas attack witnesses coerced into false testimony face new threats at home
In central Damascus, you could be forgiven for doubting that a war had ever occurred. The ancient old city in the Syrian ...
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Are Arab dissidents facing a new wave of repression?
Recent extraditions between Middle Eastern states facilitated through an opaque arrest warrant system have left many ...
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In Assad’s Fall, an Echo of the Arab Spring
The regime’s collapse should also dispel at last the persistent myth that the Arab Spring was a mirage. The first wave of ...
Syrian Jews’ homecoming brings hope for reconstruction and a permanent return after decades in exile
As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...
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Lausanne University cuts ties with Swiss-Syrian academic Joseph Daher 'over pro-Palestine stance'
Political scientist Joseph Daher appears to be the latest academic targeted for their pro-Palestine view. Daher tells The New ...
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A voice of the Syrian revolution was killed. But the man who wrote his anthems lives
The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest ...
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Syria’s 2011 Uprising Offers a Roadmap for the Post-Assad Transition
If Syria is to rise from the Assad regime’s ashes, its people must resurrect the spirit of the 2011 uprising in the post-Assad era.
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Syrians return to Homs, 'capital of the revolution'
Assad, Homs saw some of the fiercest fighting in Syria's civil war. Now, displaced people are returning to their ...
Turkish opposition party delegation meets with Kurdish leader in Iraq as part of PKK peace efforts
A Turkish opposition party delegation has arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region against the backdrop of peace ...