Syria’s civil war seems to be nearing end amid government advances - but at appalling cost
Crossing into Syria from neighbouring Lebanon, visitors are greeted by giant posters of the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad. The signs proclaim: “Welcome to victorious Syria.”
In the capital, Damascus, (...)
The case, in France, expands opportunities for campaigns to hold companies legally responsible for their contribution to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The French cement giant Lafarge was charged on Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorists, for allegedly paying nearly €13m to Isis and other militant jihadists, to keep a factory open in war-torn Syria.
The company, whose Syrian subsidiary paid the armed groups through intermediaries, has also been charged with endangering the lives of former employees at the cement (...)
When rescue workers drag civilians from the rubble left by airstrikes, they don’t pause to check who fired the missiles
For years, Syria’s civil defence workers have been subjected to a vicious online propaganda campaign by the “electronic armies” of the Assad regime and Russia. The digital (...)
Theresa May pays tribute to life-saving rescue group working in ‘horrendous’ conditions and will look at boost in British support
Britain could increase its funding to the Syrian volunteer rescue group the White Helmets following reports that Donald Trump is withdrawing US support.
Theresa May (...)
Last week Rami Hennawi’s family received the news from Syrian authorities that their son and partner died in prison and they can collect his body. Rami was a pacifist leftist young activist who was detained in 2012. Five years he spent in the most inhumane conditions in one of Assad’s torture houses. Rami came from Sweida, a majority Druze city under regime control and considered in general pro-Assad. But in fact, the underground resistance against Assad in Sweida is strong. If anything, (...)
Introduction
The Syrian Civil War continues for 7th year, but it is still not clear when it will end. During the war, over half a million people died and about 10 million people, about half of the Syrian population, was displaced. On the occasion of the bombing of Syria, targeting the military (...)
As the Syrian Revolution entered its eighth year this March, Dan Fischer and S. Majas sent some questions to the Syrian-Swiss anti-capitalist activist and academic Joseph Daher. Daher founded the website Syria Freedom Forever and authored Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God. We discussed how the destiny of Syria’s popular struggle against Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship is linked to anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist struggles globally, including in Rojava, Palestine, (...)
Ongoing discussions regarding the now famous Syrian legislative law, Decree 66, continue and its recent expansion and approval by parliament in January 2018, is waiting to be officially implemented to the rest of the country. The possible expansion of Decree 66 could have important consequences (...)
Who will help us?
My staff are trying to save lives in the rubble of Ghouta. Who will help us?
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been abandoned to starvation and bombing. How dare the world turn its face away
As Syrians, we have experienced death in so many more ways than we ever dared (...)
Gilbert Achcar met with Syrian Corner during Syria Awareness Week 2018. Achcar posits that the Syrian conflict is far from over and that for Bashar al-Assad to establish a new political framework, an accord between the US and Russia is necessary. Achcar says the role of Iran in a future Syria (...)
You may have seen the horrible photo of 34 day-old Samar Dofdaa that activists circulated recently. Her family is one of thousands under siege in Eastern Ghouta by Assad forces. The baby was skeletal and in obvious agony. She died the next day. While world attention has left Syria, civilian (...)
The Syrian Network for Human Rights, founded in June 2011, is a non-governmental, non-pro t independent organization that is a primary source for the United Nations on all death toll-related statistics in Syria.
Serious concerns over the lives of detainees in Homs Central Prison
Hundreds of (...)
For the first time since 2011, the Damascus International Trade Fair was organized and held for ten days in mid-August 2017 in a bid to bring back foreign investors and promote an image of normalcy in the country. Many companies from Russia, Iran, China, Iraq, India, South Africa, and Lebanon (...)
Talk about building a new form of citizenship in Syria might seem unrealistic today, but in fact, it should be seen as a long-term strategy.
The war in Syria has had important consequences in the country in terms of rising sectarianism and racism. In this in-depth article, I demonstrate the (...)
NO TO ASSAD’S BRUTALITY
NO TO ISIS
NO TO U.S. AND RUSSIAN BOMBING AND MILITARY FORCES IN SYRIA
FOR A REVIVAL OF THE ARAB SPRING
We are horrified by the relentless, cruel attacks of the Assad regime, aided by Moscow and Tehran, on the Syrian people. For sheer brutality the butchers in (...)
Weapons expert says Russian claim that airstrike hit ‘terrorist warehouse’ in Idlib province is fanciful
At least 70 people have been killed in northern Syria after being exposed to a toxic gas that survivors said was dropped from warplanes, an attack that sparked comparisons to the most (...)
Dozens of people have been killed in a suspected chemical weapon attack in Syria, according to a war monitoring group. Videos and pictures have been posted online, which activists and medics claim show evidence of people dying from asphyxiation. One news agency report suggested at least 11 of (...)
After six years of war, Syria’s moderate rebels are broken and marginalised. And now, as Bashar al-Assad has wished for so long, al-Qaeda extremists are leading the insurgency.
On 9 February, a grey-bearded and balding Syrian rebel commander wearing military dress appeared in an internet video (...)
“We are not less that the workers of the Paris Commune... They lasted 70 days and we are still here since a year and a half.” This is how the organic intellectual Omar Aziz described the revolution in Syria. On 17 February 2013, Aziz was martyred in Adra Central Prison.
This text will review the (...)
The original idea behind the councils became meaningless. Under the hegemony of weapons and conditional funding, the space for council work closed up. Thus, the possibility of building an alternative, democratic authority from below, which could lead the revolution and speak in its name, was (...)
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