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 (...)
Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian academic and activist. Originally from Aleppo, Daher is a staunch opponent of the Syrian Ba’ath regime. He maintains the website Syria Freedom Forever, which is dedicated to building a secular and socialist Syria. In his latest book Hezbollah: The Political Economy (...)
The Trump administration’s April 6 targeted missile strike on the Syrian airbase from which the chemical attack was launched, is not a reflection of any genuine concern for the Syrian people. It will not help the struggle against the Assad regime, ISIS and Al Qaida. Instead, this (...)
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 ongoing Syrian Civil War has left more than 400,000 dead, displaced more than 12 million and shifted the power in the Middle East.
What began with pro-democratic protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has led to the rise of the Islamic State and the Al-Nusra Front. The (...)
The scorched-earth war of the Assad dictatorship, backed by allies Russia and Iran, against the Syrian Revolution has attained a critical victory with the conquest of the rebellion stronghold of Eastern Aleppo. Now the left must place a premium on understanding the lessons of what happened—and (...)
Thousands of other opponents of Assad died from torture and starvation at Saydnaya prison, witness reports suggest.
As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in one of Syria’s most infamous prisons in the first five years of the country’s civil war as part of an (...)
Countless icons of the Syrian revolution who struggled for freedom between 2012-2014 have been ignored and erased from history by the western media, writes Loubna Mrie.
In journalism and on social media, I often come across a narrative - from the Syrian regime’s most ardent supporters, to even (...)
Behind the humanitarian disaster of the Syrian civil war is a political crisis the Left urgently needs to understand.
The Syrian tragedy is a key moral and political question today. Yet it has not been easy for leftists around the world to decide where they stand on Syria.
To illuminate the (...)
Learning about the crimes of Daesh (Isis/Isil) in Syria and Iraq, a number of young Brits have travelled to the Middle East to fight against the terror group. But because they don’t have the government’s backing, they are often treated like criminals when they return home. And the recent death of (...)
Evacuees from the Syrian city tell how life continued through years of bombing – until it was impossible to stay.
The Aleppo Thaer al-Halabi left behind was a ghost town filled with the shadows of friends lost to war and the shattered dreams of a different Syria.
Still, the parting resembled (...)
The defeat of Aleppo: Introduction
Aided by the bombs of the Russian air force and the bullets of foreign militias organized by Iran, Syria’s president Bashar Al-Assad has finally managed to destroy the eastern sector of the country’s largest city Aleppo, the major remaining pocket of popular (...)
Reach out and contact these groups, individuals and websites to help Syrians who are still fighting for justice and human rights. This is a long list. Please scroll down to the end and past the graphics.
Al-Jumhurriya website, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Karam Nachar, Yassin Swehat (...)
Fred Leplat writes about the barbarism unleashed by Assad on the people of eastern Aleppo.
London demonstration in solidarity with Aleppo, 17 December (photo: Steve Eason)
Bashar al-Assad is in the last stages of the military annihilation of eastern Aleppo. It is no liberation but the (...)
The popular uprising in Syria approaches its sixth year, but the debate among the networks, associations, political parties, and individuals that make up the political left is ongoing.
Alarmingly, some sections of leftist discourse on the Syrian revolution often emulate the rhetoric offered by (...)
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