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Social Media Buzz: We Are Coming to Slaughter You
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict.
Mohammed Aly Sergie is the Senior Editor at Syria Deeply. He previously reported on private equity deals for Dow Jones in New York and established a bureau for the news service in Saudi Arabia. He grew up in Aleppo, Syria.
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Along Sectarian Fault Lines, a ‘New Normal’ Emerges
QALAAT AL-MADIQ, HAMA PROVINCE / Just a few years ago, Syrian students in this Sunni town had to pledge allegiance to Baath party principles and express loyalty to Bashar al-Assad.
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Social Media Buzz: A Falling Pound, Social Media Shabiha
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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Social Media Buzz: Assad Lures Shiites to His Secular Army
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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Walking a Fine Line in the Water Works of a Rebel Town
QALAAT AL-MADIQ, HAMA PROVINCE / As Qalaat al-Madiq, a Sunni town overlooking the sectarian fault line of the Orontes River in Hama, switched from rebel to regime control over the past two years, Rami kept his government job at a water infrastructure facility. The position forced him to conciliate both sides in the conflict. .
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A Five-Month Journey Through Syria’s Dungeons
AYN AL-ARAB (KOBANI), ALEPPO PROVINCE / After losing one-third of his weight and sustaining multiple beatings over five months in prisons run by Syrian intelligence agencies, Mohammed Sheikh Nabi, a member of the Kurdish party Azadi, said he’d been certain he would die.
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Social Media Buzz: Turkish Protests on Focus in Assad’s Media
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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Where Rebels Drink Tea and Trade Tanks
HASS, IDLIB PROVINCE / Far from the glamorous world of international weapons expos, rebels in Syria are trading heavy arms among themselves, conducting their business in modest homes over cups of tea.
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Social Media Buzz: McCain Reactions, Khatib’s Failed Facebook Diplomacy
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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Social Media Buzz: Extremists in the Spotlight
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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Social Media Buzz: Hezbollah + the Shadow of Sunni-Shiite Battle
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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Catholics Join Islamist Fighters
RAS AL-AYN, HASSAKEH PROVINCE / Visitors crossing from Turkey to Ras al-Ayn, a sleepy border town in eastern Syria, are now welcomed by the unlikeliest of characters: a Catholic member of what is considered an extremist Islamist rebel group.
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New Dangers for Opposition Kurds
AYN AL-ARAB (KOBANI), ALEPPO PROVINCE – Aladine Hamam, a member of the Azadi party, spent almost two months in jail this year, accused of being a Turkish agent and with setting up an armed group that doesn’t answer to the PYD, the predominant political party. His case highlights the divisions among Kurds on the future of the ethnic group in Syria and the unchecked power of the PYD (or Syrian Democratic Party) in Kurdish-controlled territories. .
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Social Media Buzz: “Cleansing” Sunnis on Syria’s Coast
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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Social Media Buzz: Mourning Assad’s Foreign Fighters
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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In Kobani, Volunteers Cobble a Police Force
This is the first in a two-part series on Syria’s volunteer police brigades. AYN AL-ARAB (KOBANI), ALEPPO PROVINCE – With only a sixth-grade education and prior experience in temporary agricultural jobs, Fayyad Mula Khalil, the effective police chief in Ayn al-Arab, known as Kobani in Kurdish, admits that he’s not qualified to be the city’s top cop.
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The Social Media Buzz: ‘This Is the Fate of All Traitors’
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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Poison Gas Kills a Family, In Apparent Chemical Weapons Attack
AFRIN, ALEPPO PROVINCE – After completing his prayers around 1 a.m. on April 13, Yasser fell asleep with his wife, two young children, and sister, who all shared a bed in a modest home in Sheikh Maqsood, the Kurdish-majority frontline neighborhood in Aleppo.
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The Social Media Buzz: Known on Twitter as the ‘Man in Black’
Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.
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How a Ballistic Missile Wiped Out Two Families in Rural Aleppo
HREITAN, ALEPPO PROVINCE – Air strikes and ballistic missile attacks from Scuds and other large rockets are now daily events in Syria. The victims and damage are tallied in spreadsheets, and only a small portion of the details make the news, because this kind of carnage is no longer new. It’s expected.