Syria – Zamalka, Erbeen, Deir Al-Asafeer and Jisreen are all suburbs within Ghouta that have recently become almost completely liberated from the regime grip. Usually, media shows no more than the shelling and the death toll after the offensives in these liberated areas, while the internal image of Ghouta reveals that the FSA tries to...
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زملكا عربين دير العصافير وجسرين، كلها مناطق في غوطة دمشق باتت في هذه الأيام محررة بصورة شبه كاملة من أيدي النظام. مشهد وسائل الإعلام عن تلك المناطق لا يتجاوز خبر قصفها وشهدائها، بينما في الصورة الداخلية لقلب الغوطه يقوم الجيش الحر بدور رئيس لملء فراغ سلطةٍ هنا، فيبرز له دور اجتماعي جديد في محاولة منه...
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In late August, I was on my way back from a friend’s house in al-Rabwah when I passed by the Tishrin Park, the largest in Damascus. Despite the noise of heavy machine gun fire and the thunder of war planes, there was a film shoot going on in the park. Out of curiosity, I stopped...
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“It’s the least I can do for my country.” That was the last thing my childhood friend Ali said when we spoke by phone on August 14, just before he joined the Syrian army. Ali was called up by the elite Fourth Armoured Division. This unit, led by Maher al-Assad, the president’s brother, is one...
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Syrian journalist Rasha Rami reports on a demonstration she witnessed on September 1, 2012 in the city of Antioch in Turkey’s Hatay province, on the border with Syria. Demonstrators called for an end to Turkish cooperation with Syria’s opposition and the repatriation of refugees. The Turkish authorities banned subsequent protests, while officials in Hatay instructed...
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