Syria

Apologists Call Assad Secular. Assad Tells Syrians Otherwise

By Asser Khattab, Newlines Magazine

Boghos never expected to find himself in one of Syria’s underground dungeons.

He was a devoted Christian who opted for a literal interpretation of Romans 13:1-2, where Paul the Apostle writes, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God,” and, “Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God.”

Assad’s Atrocities, Not Sanctions, Have Destroyed Syria

By James F. Jeffrey, Special Representative for Syria Engagement and Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS

Iranian militias commit another massacre, killing a group of shepherds in Raqqa

Jun 17, 2020

Iranian militiamen on Tuesday (June 16) killed a group of shepherds in the countryside of Raqqa Governorate in northeastern Syria.

Citing the Al-Khabour news website and local sources, Call Syria reported, "The massacre took place yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, when Iranian militias launched an attack on the homes of shepherds near the village of "Ghanem Al-Ali" in the southeastern countryside of Raqqa."

HNC Member: Russians and Iranians are Occupiers

Commander Abu Bakr, a member of the High Negotiations committee, has described the Russian and Iranian forces in Syria as occupiers since they are the guarantors of the Syrian regime in the Eastern Ghouta area.

Abu Bakr tweeted “Russians and Iranians are guarantors and in besieging Ghouta are continuing, and as half a million starve and the children die of starvation. What guarantee do you speak [of]?"

Ahmad Hassoun Grand Mufti of Syria threatening Europe and America

Nov 14, 2015

A video from last year after the revolution in Syria had begun showing the Grand Mufti of the country Ahmad Hassoun, who's also a speaker on behalf of the criminal regime, threatening Europe and America with suicide bombers in case they decide to meddle in Syria.
The Grand Mufti represents the way the regime thinks and acts dealing with the revolution and the world; looking at recent events in Syria and yesterday bombing in "Paris" we have no doubt who casing it all.

Another infant victim of Assad's Nakba

May 01, 2015

Deir el Zour, 01-05-2015: Ali Abdullah was barely old enough to walk. He was killed today in regime warplanes' bombardment of homes in the Hamidiya neighbourhood of Deir el Zour city.

Report and photograph from: Syrian Revolution 2011 Facebook page (Arabic):
https://www.facebook.com/Syrian.Revolution/photos/a.10150397575815727.61...

Endgame or new phase in Syria’s 4-year-old conflict?

May 01, 2015

Syrian state TV Thursday abruptly suspended its non-news and political programming in a telling sign of how sharply the tide has turned against President Bashar Assad’s regime in recent weeks.

Assad regime now using African mercenaries

May 01, 2015

01-04-2015: The geographic range of the Tehran-backed foreign mercenaries deployed in Syria to fight for the Assad regime continues to expand, with Souria.Net publishing photographs from rebels in Jisr al Shughour in Idlib province of an African mercenary killed in clashes there. Rebels in the region report that they are now seeing increasing numbers of African fighters alongside the regime’s Shiite mercenaries from Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with North Korean and Filipino fighters also fighting for Assad.

This map proves that Iran doesn't really want to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria

May 01, 2015

Iraq and Syria no longer exist.

By now, the world has gotten used to maps showing how ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army, the Assad regime, the Baghdad government, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Sunni tribes, Iranian-backed militia groups, and various other actors have filled the vacuum in the countries still officially known as Iraq and Syria.

Politics and the Left - interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Yassin Al Haj Saleh is one of Syria’s leading political dissidents. He spent from 1980-1996 in Syrian prisons and became one of the key intellectual voices of the 2011 Syrian uprising. He spent 21 months in hiding within Syria, eventually escaping to Istanbul. He was interviewed via email by New Politics co-editor Stephen R. Shalom in early November 2014.

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