A powerful short film on the destruction and death caused by the ongoing bombing campaign on Aleppo, where Syrian regime airplanes and helicopters have been throwing ‘barrel bombs’ on civilian areas. ‘Barrel bombs’ are large, home-made explosive devices – barrels or any other containers filled with petrol, […]
Read more →The Lebanese Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech on Friday during the commemoration of Hezbollah’s commander Hassan Lakkis – who was assassinated by unknown gunmen at his home in Lebanon in early December – in which he claimed Hezbollah wanted to form a “national unity government” […]
Read more →Haj Abu Mohammad who died in Babbila, a town near Damascus, last week from malnutrition and lack of food and medicine. For over a year now the area has been under a suffocating siege by the regime forces, supported by Sepah Pasdaran, Hezbollah Lebanon and the Iraqi […]
Read more →Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has published a new report documenting the targeted killing, kidnapping and imprisonment of journalists around the world in 2013. Syria had the lion’s share: at least 10 journalists and 35 citizen-journalists were killed in Syria this year (out of a total of 71 […]
Read more →A new report by an independent United Nations panel investigating human rights violations in Syria has concluded that enforced disappearances and secret detention committed by the Syrian regime forces are “part of widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population amounting to a crime against humanity.” The […]
Read more →“The age of ‘bread or freedom’ is over – We want both together.” from Zabadani, Syria
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