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Follow via RSSOn Feb. 2, [al-Qaida disavowed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant][1]. In May 2013, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri ordered ISIS to leave Syria and return to Iraq, and said that Jabhat al-Nusra, which is more popular with both civilians and other rebel fighting groups, was its [official branch in the country.[2].
The second round of Syrian peace talks concluded in Switzerland on Friday Jan. 31, leaving experts underwhelmed by what they say were inadequate humanitarian aid concessions and open hostility between the government and opposition delegations.
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch released a 38-page report on the Syrian government’s illegal demolition of neighborhoods in opposition-held areas.
On the opening day of peace talks in Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry came out stronger than predicted against the Syrian government, calling for regime change. .
Earlier this month, rebel fighting groups led by the Islamic Front (IF) battled the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Raqqa, the first Syrian city to come under extremist control. The clash quickly spread to neighboring Aleppo and Idlib province.
Today, polling veteran Craig Charney launched a new report, Syrian Perspectives on Transitional Justice, looking at the views of Syrian civilians still living in the country. .
As the second round of Geneva peace talks enter their first full week, the Syrian government agreed to let women and children leave the besieged old city of Homs, one of the country’s hardest-hit areas. .
Rami Jarrah is one of Syria’s original media activists and organizers. In 2011, he spent time in Syrian government detention before fleeing to Cairo and then to the U.K., where he has continued to be one of the conflict’s most vocal activists.
The Syrian government began to barrel bomb the southern province of Deraa last month, which had previously been overshadowed by attention on Aleppo and rebel infighting in Raqqa. .
In November, Buzzfeed correspondent Mike Giglio traveled to Syria’s Kurdish areas, reporting on what life was like for residents and Kurdish fighters as extremists moved into the area.
Last week, Syrian women’s rights activists concluded a two-day conference in Geneva by demanding equal involvement in the war-torn country’s male-dominated peace-building process.
This week’s U.N. donor conference in Kuwait aimed to raise $6.5 billion for Syrian humanitarian aid. So far only $2.4 billion has been pledged, with the U.S. making a $380 million promise.
GAZIANTEP — Syrian university students unable to complete their degrees due to the country’s ongoing conflict and displaced to Turkey are now jobless, or scraping by as day laborers.
On Jan. 22, representatives of global powers, the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition will gather in Switzerland for a second round of peace talks, known as Geneva II.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaida affiliate that’s dominating the fight in Syria, has imposed its own conservative rule of law in Raqqa and other eastern areas.
Anesthesiologist Dr. Ben Gupta spent nearly three months on the Jordan-Syria border, working to treat patients from Daraa who made the journey to his field hospital, many with blast injuries and requiring multiple surgeries.
Yesterday, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) released its latest report, “Syria’s Socially Mediated Civil War.”.
As the most intense rebel infighting since the start of the conflict raged between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic Front this week in Raqqa and Aleppo, fighters from all three groups continued to collaborate in their offensive against the PYD, a Kurdish militia group, near Qamishli.
Liz Sly is the Washington Post’s Beirut bureau chief, and one of dozens of reporters whose work covering the country has been impacted by security issues that have made travel for Western journalists extremely dangerous.
This week, the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) was largely kicked out of Raqqa, the first city to fall under its control, by fighters from the Islamic Front, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army.
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