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Follow via RSSThe Syrian National Coalition, Syria’s main opposition group, missed a key chance to restore confidence among its supporters last week at a meeting in Istanbul. After days of wrangling over political representation, the heavily Islamist body offered only five seats to the liberal, Western-backed bloc led by Christian activist and writer Michael Kilo – far below the 22 seats hoped for by Kilo and his supporters. .
Tuesday marked the third consecutive day of a major offensive against Qusayr, located just across the border in Homs province. On Sunday, 28 elite Hezbollah fighters were killed and over 70 wounded in the fighting, catalogued by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. [Syrian] rebels suffered casualties twice as high, losing 50 men to air raids, shelling attacks and fighting, Three civilian women and an elderly man were also killed in the assault.
Internet activism has taken center stage throughout the Arab Spring, turning citizens with mobile phones into journalists, and Facebook and Twitter into engines of revolt.
As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle, send it to [email protected].
As Syria’s revolution rages, three young rockers from Damascus have reached their own boiling point. Armed with guitars, drums and lyrics, Pressure Pot (or Tanjaret Daghet in Arabic) burst onto the scene with their own kind of revolt. Now based in Beirut, the band members are Khaled Omran on vocals and bass guitar, Tarek Khuluki on guitar and vocals and Dani Shukri on drums. They say the name represents the eruption of discovery and creativity the three musicians have found through playing together. .
As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle send it to *[email protected]**.*.
As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle send it to <[email protected]>.
“When Jimmy speaks with tribal leaders in Raqqa, they gather around him in a circle; this is very significant where he comes from. If he survives, he is going to be an important figure in the new Syria.”.
As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle send it to <[email protected]>.
As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle send it to <[email protected]>.
The deaths of veteran Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remy Ochelik (killed in a February 2012 rocket attack in Homs) proved watershed for citizen journalists in this war-torn Syrian city.
As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle send it to <[email protected]>.
At an anti-regime protest in Saraqeb in the northwestern province of Idlib on February 8, the three-starred revolutionary flag was ripped from the hands of a demonstrator by supporters of an Islamist faction. .
As part of our effort to highlight civilian stories, below is a conversation between News Deeply and a 33-year-old Palestinian activist from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, who asked not to be named. Here, he discusses how Yarmouk became was once “safe place” for activists in the wartime capital, until the FSA moved in. .
As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle send it to <[email protected]>.
As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle send it to <[email protected]>
Peter Kassig, a former U.S. soldier, aids Syrians on the ground.
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