by Robert Fisk, The Independent Robert Fisk speaks to a colonel confidently preparing his men for battle at Frikeh in the Orontes river valley where Assad’s troops were besieged just last month ROBERT FISK FRIKEH Thursday 04 June 2015 Approaching front lines is usually the same. First come the fields […]
The efforts of western states are fruitless – the sectarian terror group won’t be defeated by the same power that incubated it in the first place The war on terror, […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Sahar Qanbar lost her mother and brother as civilians and government soldiers fought side by side after being surrounded by brutal Islamist fighters. Robert Fisk visited her in Latakia ROBERT FISK LATAKIA Tuesday 02 June 2015 The only thing as heartbreaking as Sahar Qanbar’s smile […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent It has been a personal war for these soldiers ROBERT FISK Monday 01 June 2015 Above us, white clouds graze the top of Tel Moussa, 9,400 feet of red rock above foothills of granite and valleys of innocent cherry orchards. Colonel Median of the Syrian […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent It has been a personal war for these soldiers ROBERT FISK Monday 01 June 2015 Above us, white clouds graze the top of Tel Moussa, 9,400 feet of red rock above foothills of granite and valleys of innocent cherry orchards. Colonel Median of the Syrian […]
There’s method in the madness of Isis’s cultural vandalism The more antiquities appear to be threatened, the more the mafias can charge for their booty by Robert Fisk, The Independent I find it all a bit odd, this concern of ours about the ruins of Palmyra. Sure, the Bride of […]
by Mohammed Idrees Ahmad, THE INDEPENDENT An esteemed war journalist says he witnessed Syrian jihadis slaughter Christians. Evidence of a war crime—or a Brian Williams moment? Patrick Cockburn, the Irish foreign correspondent for The Independent, has an eclectic following. He is admired by Noam Chomsky and Rand Paul; and last […]
by Mohammed Idrees Ahmad, THE INDEPENDENT An esteemed war journalist says he witnessed Syrian jihadis slaughter Christians. Evidence of a war crime—or a Brian Williams moment? Patrick Cockburn, the Irish foreign correspondent for The Independent, has an eclectic following. He is admired by Noam Chomsky and Rand Paul; and last […]
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE EMIN OZMEN/ LEJOURNAL/ DER SPIEGEL Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is running out of soldiers and is forced to rely on mercenaries in his ongoing battle against rebels. Many of his foreign fighters come from Afghanistan — men like Murad, who is now being held […]
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE EMIN OZMEN/ LEJOURNAL/ DER SPIEGEL Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is running out of soldiers and is forced to rely on mercenaries in his ongoing battle against rebels. Many of his foreign fighters come from Afghanistan — men like Murad, who is now being held […]
PRINT SEND THIS ARTICLE 1 COMMENTS As a political refugee in Switzerland, Hani Abbas chose exile to escape Syrian security forces. Many of his fellow cartoonists and journalists had been assassinated, imprisoned or tortured. Abbas was born in 1977 in Yarmouk, a large Palestinian refugee camp in the suburbs of the […]
by Matt Knight and CNN WIRE, May 16, 2015 (CNN) — U.S. Special Operations forces killed a senior ISIS commander during a raid intended to capture him in eastern Syria overnight Friday to Saturday, sources familiar with what happened on the ground in Syria told CNN. The ISIS commander, Abu […]
1 May 2015 Dozens of people – many with Syrian flags – gathered for the relaunch ceremony A narrow-gauge train has begun operating again in Damascus – in a reminder of better days in the war-torn Syrian capital. The Rabwah steam train was very popular with city residents, taking them […]
Summary BY MICHAEL YOUNG, THE DAILY STAR, LEBANON President Bashar Assad’s regime is beginning to crumble despite assistance from Iran and its allies. However, such a prospect did not prevent […]
AP / JORDAN TIMES / MAY 02, 2015 Rahaf Abdullah works at a sweets shop at a mall in Erbil, in Iraq’s Kurdish region, on Wednesday (AP photo) ERBIL, Iraq — Two years after fleeing from her home in Damascus, 22-year-old Rahaf Abdullah is working at a gleaming mall in […]
The Daily Star The pace of military developments in Syria has picked up noticeably in recent weeks; nearly all of the news has been bad for supporters of President Bashar Assad. Some have begun speaking of the “beginning of the end” of the regime, but its true strongholds – from […]
By Jörg Diehl, Hubert Gude, Barbara Schmid and Fidelius Schmid http://www.spiegel.de DPA/ Syriadeeply.org Much is known about men leaving Germany to take up arms on behalf of Islamic State. Less has been reported about the flocks of women traveling to Syria to join the jihad. Experts view them as a growing terrorist […]
AFP / JORDAN TIMES / Apr 26, 2015 Residents stand upon the rubble of collapsed buildings after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Assad […]
by Lakhdar Brahimi Summary Over the past four years, Syria has been the scene of terrible suffering and savagery. The war has claimed more than 200,000 lives and devastated Syria’s social and economic fabric. The international community has been unable – and, to some extent, unwilling – to stop the […]
HELD CAPTIVE Swiss jihadist frees wife and child By swissinfo.ch and agencies APR 19, 2015 – 15:30 The mother and child were let go near the border town of Reyhanli (Keystone) A woman and her young child, held in Syria for several months by her Swiss-Turkish husband, have been released. […]