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A beautiful animation based on the work of renowned British graffiti artist Banksy. Produced by a new campaign called #WithSyria (http://withsyria.com/), which is a coalition of over 130 humanitarian and human rights groups calling for “this to be the last anniversary of conflict in Syria.” COMMENT: We, […]
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The Assad regime is holding prisoner at least 730 women and 33 girls under the age of 18 in different parts of Syria. These are the cases known to the Violation Documentation Center in Syria (www.vdc-sy.info). Many more women and girls have disapeared, and it is still […]
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The Syrian conflict is claiming more and more lives among civilians, including women. According to a recent report by human rights groups, 12,813 women have been killed in Syria in the last three years.[1] The report says most of them lost their lives in attacks carried out […]
Read more →Last month an Iranian MP boasted during a speech that Iran had trained some 150,000 Syrian regime fighters on Iranian soil, another 150,000 in Syria, in addition to 50,000 Hezbollah Lebanon fighters.[1] Now another MP is demanding that Seyyed Mahmoud Nabavian, who revealed the information, is prosecuted. […]
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“The strategic bottleneck of economy should not be in any hand other than Sepah Pasdaran’s … Sepah’s economic authority should be strengthened so that of secular players in Iranian economy become restricted.” Shahriar Zarshenas, a socio-political theorist close to Iranian conservatives Comment: Perhaps someone should remind Mr […]
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More than 175 Syrians were killed by Bashar al-Assad’s forces, supported by Hezbollah Lebanon fighters, on 26 February 2014 near the town of Otaibeh in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. The high-profile operation was described by Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian state-controlled media as a “tight, preplanned ambush” […]
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This photo, taken by the UN in Syria and widely published by the media across the world, shows the residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus rushing to receive food baskets distributed by the UN. The camp has been besieged by Syrian regime forces since July […]
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A placard from Kafrnabl, Idlib, Syria COMMENT: Do we really want Sepah Pasdaran and Hezbollah Lebanon to lead us to ‘a Vietnam in Syria’? Isn’t their support for the Assad regime a futile attempt to keep a dying regime alive? What about the costs and long-term consequences […]
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The now-famous Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa, who is still inside Syria. His last novel, “No Knives in This City’s Kitchens”, has been short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize. In an recent interview with the Lebanese Daily Star newspaper he said: ‘The [Syrian] regime thinks it has always […]
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“What’s happening in Syria is an abomination, one that the world is watching coldly from a distance. Where is our emotional intelligence, our sense of collective justice?” The renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, The Washington Post, 14 February 14 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stephen-hawking-syrias-war-must-end/2014/02/14/a71dea72-94f0-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html
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