Syria contributor: Olivia Alabaster Olivia Alabaster is a news editor and journalist at the Middle East Eye, previously based in Beirut, where she worked as Middle East and World Editor at Lebanon’s The Daily Star. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/olivia-alabaster/rss en Syrians Opposed to Assad React to Strikes Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:35:01 +0000 Olivia Alabaster https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2017/04/07/today-the-sun-is-shining-syrians-react-to-trump-strikes https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2017/04/07/today-the-sun-is-shining-syrians-react-to-trump-strikes “If the strikes don’t take down the regime and don’t prevent Assad from ruling in Syria, it means nothing,” said one displaced Syrian who decried years of inaction by the international community.