Syria: The Arab Summit

Global Voices 5 years ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

 - by Yazan Badran   So, another Arab summit comes and goes. This time it was the all awaited Damascus summit. As you can see, this roundup is almost a week late, simply because I couldn't find anyone... more

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Syria: Silence Over the “Bigger Holocaust”

Global Voices 5 years ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

by Amira Al Hussaini On February 29th, Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai warned of “a bigger Holocaust” for the Palestinians. Syrian blogger Ayman, from the Damascene Blog, compares between the w... more

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US & Syria At Odds About Lebanon

Can Tran 5 years ago Region: United States

Both the United States and Syria have both accused each other of meddling in the affairs of Lebanon. Currently, Lebanon is without a newly elected president. Efforts to find a new president for the country have been deemed... more

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Syrian Blogger Discusses Nudity and Moral Decay

Global Voices 4 years ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

Posted by Amira Al Hussaini to Global Voices Online   How much nudity on television can be considered as art, and how much of it contributes to moral decay? Syrian blogger Emad [Ar] tries to answer this question in ... more

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Assyrians, the indigenous people of the Middle East, leave home

Salim Abraham 4 years ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

On a sizzling summer afternoon in 1974, my mother was trailing behind me, running hastily home to escape one of the stone battles that raged between neighbourhoods in Syria’s northeastern city of Qamishli. Once we ... more

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Syria condemns US raid as outrageous crime

Swan Farhad 4 years ago Region: Bangladesh

Syria accused the United States on Monday of committing an 'outrageous crime' in killing eight civilians during a helicopter attack on a Syrian farm near the border with Iraq. Syria has said four US helicopters assaulted... more

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Christian Group Open Doors Encourages Syria Christians

Success Uchime 10 months ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

The United Kingdom (UK) based Christian philanthropic organization, Open Doors (www. opendoorsuk.org) has continued to provide succor to displaced Christians in Syria who are caught up in the crisis that has devastated the... more

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Did the Secretary of Defense mislead members of Congress about Syria?

Robert Tilford a year ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee on April 19, 2012 Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta repeatedly misrepresented the truth about the situation in Syria and American military involvement with the rebel m... more

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Syrian opposition call for an urgent meeting with the UN

Vivekananda a year ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

 The Syrian opposition National Council (CNS) wants to treat "massacre" in the Syrian provinces of Homs, Idleb and other areas that have left 250 dead. They ask the UN to declare the locations attacked as "safe areas... more

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Human Rights Watch asked to carry 74 Syrian officials in international courts

Addison a year ago Region: Syrian Arab Republic

 "Soldiers deserters gave us names, ranks and positions of those who gave the orders to shoot and kill," said the NGO.   Human Rights Watch issued a report in which more than sixty military deserters the Syrian... more

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