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Africa

Central African Republic: “Don’t Forget About Us!”

The Central African conflict between the Central African government and Seleka rebels has worsened alarmingly since December 2012. After months of conflict, Seleka rebels announced the taking of the presidential palace on M...
by Lova Rakotomalala
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Middle East

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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Middle East
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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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Lebanon
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In the Shadow of Syria: Will Lebanon Soon be Shrouded?

With news reports flooding in highlighting the ever deepening involvement of Hezbollah in Bashar al-Assad’s struggle for Syria, the scenario which so many Lebanese feared appears to be on the brink of being realized. Conflict...
by Michael Brown
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Human Rights

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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Middle East

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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Middle East

Could Rebels be Syria’s Solution?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”icon_link”] With “Operation Damascus Volcano” under way, it is clear that opposition forces, ar...
by Nadine Tewfik-Saad
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