Posts Tagged ‘Assad’
 

 
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Why Assad Will Not Lose: The Unspoken Consensus On Syria

Commentary on the situation in Syria generally revolves around a handful of well worn subjects; the regime’s use of chemical weapons, how the West finds the regime abhorrent, the fact that Russia and China are supporting such...
by Michael Brown
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The failure of traditional ‘Laws of War’: Syria and beyond

Whether reading watching or listening to the news, it is likely that there will be a story about a war or conflict somewhere in the world. These reports only begin to scratch the surface of the vast number of conflicts occurrin...
by Joe Corry-Roake
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WATCH: Ellie Goulding’s #Song4Syria

Pop icon Ellie Goulding has released her single “I Know You Care” in support of Syria’s children – children who have watched their peers die, children who are starving, children who have been forced to f...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Egypt, Israel, and the House of Assad

Commemorated by none, forgotten by most, and unknown to many in the West, the story of the United Arab Republic is nowadays relegated to the footnotes of Cold War histories. Way back in 1958 the governments of Egypt and Syria ...
by Owen Stenner
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WATCH: The Syrian Revolution in Three Minutes

When Syrians started taking to the streets in March 2011, one of the most common pro-regime thugs’ threats was “to take Syria back a 100 years”. This soon turned into a joke Syrians repeated as their rulers displayed thei...
by Syria Untold
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Keffah Ali Deeb: A Symbol of Syria’s Non-Violent Resistance Movement

When the Arab Spring revolutions first broke out, artist Keffah Ali Deeb was one of the first people in Syria to protest outside the Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan embassies. She joined other activists in standing up against S...
by Syria Untold
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The Return of the Ottoman

The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has the status of a national hero in the Middle East. This status was first created during his now famous walk-out during a debate with Shimon Peres during the World Economic...
by Maged Mandour
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A Brutal Account of the Syrian Civil War (Warning: Graphic Content)

On Oct. 28, 2012, journalist Olly Lambert was filming an interview with a Syrian rebel leader in the village of al-Bara for FRONTLINE, a government airstrike hit barely 300 meters from where he was filming. Keeping the cameras ...
by Natasha Lipman
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Syrian Revolution: The Final Chapter

March of 2011 marked the beginning of the Syrian revolution. The struggle that rages on as I write this article has seen the lives of at least 60, 000 Syrians claimed by the regimes’ war machine. This astonishingly high figur...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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