Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Syria'
Syria: Tweeting from the Frontline in Aleppo
by Amira Al Hussaini, Global Voices, The Netherlands - Journalist Jenan Moussa is back in Aleppo, Syria, tweeting her experiences as the war between pro- and anti-government forces intensifies. Moussa's tweets are raw and personal, giving readers a snippet of...
Where Have All The Doctors Gone?
by Maryam Hasan, Voice of Syria, Syria - Like sardines packed into a can, men, women and children share space in a tiny emergency ward. Some cry, and a few others bear the pain quietly, but their facial expressions say...
Journalists Are Fighting a Valiant Battle in the Syrian Conflict
by Nora Boustany, Daily Star, Lebanon - There is a more valiant battle being fought and it is opening new frontiers of the mind in Syria. It is that of reporters, local and foreign, and all those helping them in...
Syria's War Leaves Its Scars on the Children
by Deborah Amos, NPR, USA - The war in Syria is taking a huge toll on the children. An international team of researchers that interviewed Syrian kids in a refugee camp in Turkey found that 3 out of 4 have...
Russia Should Cooperate If It Wants to Protect Post-Assad Interests in Syria
by Lale Kemal, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Russia now faces the risk of losing not only it's business interests in this country but also its strategic weight in the Middle East region as a whole if it continues to support...
Refugees Forced to Return to War-Torn Syria
by Nisreen El Shamayleh, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Syrian refugees cite terrible living conditions in camps in neighbouring Jordan....
Rape Is Shredding Syria’s Social Fabric
by Lauren Wolfe, CNN, USA - The unending "dishonor" and manipulation of Syrians through sexualized violence is committed by all sides, although the majority of our reports indicate government perpetrators. It is creating an entire nation of traumatized people: not...
Free Syria Faces Tough Times
by Shelly Kittleson, Asia Times, Hong Kong - As the death toll in Syria tops 40,000 and some 400,000 have taken refuge beyond the country’s borders, a dearth of funding for civilian projects in areas under Free Syrian control risks...
Syria Strains the Semantics of Civil War
by Jacqueline Outka, Asia Times, Hong Kong - The use of "civil war" to describe what is taking place in Syria has become common in recent months. The characterization is a far cry from its general definition, but has its...
America the (In)dispensable
by Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, Canada - We may be entering an era in which the U.S. is the leader not by design but by default. Americans want to be dispensable. But the world won’t let them....
Syria Banks Pay Price of War with First Losses
by Hadeel al Sayegh, The National, UAE - Months of violent conflict are weighing heavily on Syria's banking sector with many branches closing their doors and foreign lenders chalking up big losses....
Women at the Heart of the Revolution
By Kate Raphael, WINGS, Canada - Two Syrian women living in North America keep close tabs on the revolution back home. They say women play a larger role in the Syrian revolution than in those of all the other MENA...
From Crisis to Cooperation
by Beril Dedeoglu, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Expectations of finding a solution to the Syrian issue through the international organizations are fading. As a result, the Syrian issue has gradually been turning into a bilateral crisis between Syria and Turkey....
Syria: Is It a Revolution?
by Kate Raphael, WINGS, Canada - Two Syrian women - journalist Afraa Jalabi in Canada and professor Mohja Kahf at U. of Arkansas - tell the history of Syria's regime, the extensive nonviolent democratization movement, the regime's brutal response, and...
Syrian Strife Sours Students' Dreams
by Basma Atassi, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Sixteen-year-old Yehya from the Syrian city of Homs had a perfect academic record and thought he was only two years away from realising his dream of joining a much-coveted medical course in Damascus....
Turkey Gets Tough on Syria
by Amanda Paul, Today's Zaman,Turkey - The urgency of the situation has become greater not simply because of the deteriorating situation inside the country, but because violence is increasingly spreading beyond Syria’s borders into Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere....
Nations Run out of Ideas on Syria as FSA Runs out of Ammunition
by Lale Kemal, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Neither Turkish-US bilateral cooperation nor multilateral meetings taking place among various countries on ending the bloodshed in Syria, where the Assad regime's brutal crackdown continues unabated against the opposition, have produced any recipe...
Syria through the Eyes of Children
by Rebecca Barber, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Over the course of 18 months of violent conflict, Syrian children have been the victim of unspeakably horrific crimes. Children as young as six have been detained and held sometimes for weeks,...
Taking a Syrian Bride: Patriotic Duty or Abuse?
by Abir Sarras, Radio Netherlands, The Netherlands - Syrian women who have fled the violence in their country are in a vulnerable situation in more ways than one. RNW’s Arab desk has discovered that agencies in Libya are offering to...
Could Syria and Lebanon Be a Steppingstone to Iran?
by Linda Heard, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - Western intervention in terms of sanctions as well as financial and military aid to rebels is the morally responsible way to go. Isn’t that right? Viscerally, most of us would answer ‘yes’...
Primary Defenses of the Syrian-Syrian Division
by Sawsan Zakzak, Syria Today, Syria - Linguistic brinksmanship, aggravated by violence, is serving to drive the opposing sides further apart....
Singing for the Syrian Revolution in the Netherlands
by Jannie Schipper, Radio Netherlands, The Netherlands - Singer ‘Gharib’ may have fled to the Netherlands long ago, but his heart is still in his homeland Syria. Soon after the revolution broke out last year he posted a protest song...
Portrait of Syria Artists in a Time of Revolt
by Jane Ferguson, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Artists who fled country experienced "torture" by security forces but are still intent on continuing their work....
Most Children in Syria Are Hostages of Violence
by Serene Assir, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - Turning rockets into goal posts, abandoned tanks into playthings, and war into a game, children in Syria are hostages to a conflict that has forced them to try to normalize death, loss...
Pandora’s Box in Syria
by Merve Busra Ozturk, Today's Zaman, Turkey - With the Syrian crisis escalating and gaining new dimensions, new threats to Turkey have started to emerge. Many in Turkey are said to be alarmed by recent reports that Syrian Kurds have...
Inside Syria's Sectarian Violence
by Zeina Khodr, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Refugees fleeing into Lebanon mirror the broader divisions of Syrian society between the government and opposition....
'Russia Is Not Naive, It Knows Assad Will Soon Leave'
by Barcin Yinanc, Hurriyet, Turkey - Moscow did not want a regime change in Damascus because it doesn’t want Syria, to become a transit route for oil and gas. A quick Google search will let us remember that only two...
Rape, Assault Are Weapons of War in Syria
by Lauren French, AlertNet, UK - Government forces in Syria are targeting women for rape and assault as the conflict between President Bashar al-Assad and anti-government forces continues to escalate, according to a report released by a human rights group...
66 Minutes in Syrian Detention
by Aline Sara, NOW Lebanon, Lebanon - This month, immerse yourself in a theatrical experience unlike any other. You are a tourist who has somewhat imprudently decided to visit Damascus, the capital of a nation where a fiery anti-regime uprising...
Syrian War Profiteers Cash In on Insurgency
by Nadia Bitar, Der Spiegel, Germany - EU sanctions were designed to undermine rich businesspeople propping up the Assad regime in Syria. But they are actually helping entrepreneurs with close ties to the government. Syrian profiteers are cashing in by...
In a Damascus Suburb, Ballet Goes On
by Emma LeBlanc and Phil Sands, JO, Jordan - As the Syrian revolution grinds on, bloody and chaotic, middle-class Damascus clings to rituals of everyday life....
Syria: 'Why Is the World Not Doing Anything to Help Us?'
by Donatella Rovera, Al Jazeera, Qatar - For more than a year the international community has stood by as Assad's forces torture and murder indiscriminately....
Syria Street, Lebanon
by Alia Brahimi, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Sentiment about Syria in Lebanon is mixed, as refugees flood in and survive thanks to goodwill....
Syrian Strife Hits Lebanese Villages
by Mona Alami, IPS, Italy - A few kilometres separate the two Lebanese villages of Ersal and Qaa from the Syrian border, both of which have been unwillingly drawn into the violence of the Syrian uprising. Unrest has been brewing...
The Syrian Crisis and Turkey
by Merve Büşra Öztürk, Today's Zaman, Turkey - As Turkey hosted a gathering of the Friends of Syria coalition on Sunday, a meeting of mostly Western and Arab foreign ministers to try to agree on measures to persuade Syrian President...
Syria’s Sniper Alleys
by Alexandra Renard, France 24, France - Reporting from the western Syrian city of Al-Qusayr near Homs, FRANCE 24’s reporters find a city terrorised by snipers in the second part of our exclusive coverage from inside Syria....
Civilians Trapped as Aid to Baba Amr Blocked Again
by Zoi Constantine, The National, United Arab Emirates - The situation in Baba Amr is "extremely difficult, the weather conditions are tragic", Mr Daccord said. "It is very cold, there is fighting and people don't have access to food or...
Searching for Danger
by Elspeth Dehnert, JO, Jordan - Along Jordan’s northern border, a team of women is doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the country—clearing landmines. They’re the first all-female de-mining squad in the Middle East....
Filming Syria's Women
by Cathrin Schaer, Der Spiegel, Germany - Lina Alabed, the maker of a new film about two women in Syria, discusses the role females have played in the Arab Spring, the equalizing effect of street protests and why it is...
U.S. and European Firms Help Syrian Regime Spy on Citizens
by Leila Nachawati, Global Voices Advocacy, USA - To track and surveil citizens online, repressive regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have relied on Western technology for years. Since surveillance technology is as necessary for repressive regimes in...
The Syria Imperative And Israel
by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, Countercurrents, India - The Assad regime in Syria is facing increased scrutiny for its handling of demonstrators. The Syrian opposition has asked for arms and NATO intervention similar to what was witnessed in Libya . Washington Hawks...
In the End, Syrians Will Decide the Assad Regime’s Fate
by Rime Allaf, The Daily Star, Lebanon - For all their frustrated desire to see the Assad regime fall, they miscalculated not only the foreign factors impeding this, but the domestic one as well: until now, the Syrian people stood...
Wither Assad? How the Syrian Leader’s Days May Be Numbered
by Cecily Hilleary, VOA News, USA - Throughout the Arab Spring, the international community has been forced more than once to grapple with perhaps the most challenging policy dilemma of all: At what point should outsiders intervene in a country’s...
Economy May Prove Tipping Point for Syrian Regime
by Natacha Yazbeck, Daily Star, Lebanon - Syria's flailing economy could prove the tipping point for the autocratic regime of Bashar al-Assad as he seeks to quell a pro-democracy revolt posing a major threat to his rule, analysts say....
Democracy in the Middle East: Watch the Kurdish Issue
by Marianna Charountaki, OpenDemocracy, UK - Democratic transformation in the Middle East will need a recognition and resolution of legitimate Kurdish claims. The Arab Spring provides a new setting for the challenge...
Bad News in Syria, but the Reality Could Be Worse
by Anne Allmeling, Al Arabiya, United Arab Emirates - No one really knows what’s happened, and this is exactly what Syria’s president Bashar Al Assad wants. As long as there is no evidence, anything could have happened in the Syrian...
Tortured and Killed: Hamza al-Khateeb, Age 13
by Hugh Macleod and Annasofie Flamand, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The mutilation and death in custody of a 13-year-old child has sparked further furious protests in Syrian city of Daraa....
International Interventions and Contradictions
by Beril Dedeoglu, Today's Zaman, Turkey - In our time, when it is about economy, trade or finance, people more easily accept limitations on state sovereignty; in fact, no one can resist much as it is part of globalization. However,...
Dorothy Parvaz: Inside Syria's Secret Prisons
by Dorothy Parvaz, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Most of the our days were spent listening to the sounds of young men being brutally interrogated – sometimes tied up in stress positions until it sounded like their bones were cracking, as...
Violence Sends Syrian Families to Lebanon
by Zoi Constantine, The National, UAE - "We were scared to be in our houses. What if they shot through the windows and we die?" he said, mimicking being hit by a bullet and falling over on the floor....
Desert Despots Feeling the Heat
by Marie Colvin and Matthew Campbell, The Australian, Australia - Residents of Benghazi, Libya's rebellious second city, are reported to be in fear of further bloody reprisals for daring to challenge the 42-year-old regime of Muammar Gadaffi. Already at least...
Faltering Friendship: Failure of Syrian-Saudi Mediations in Lebanon
by Alma Hassoun, Syria Today, Syria - Analysts warn that many more months of political wrangling are now likely, putting Lebanon at risk of political instability and even sectarian violence. But the failure of the government has also raised questions...
Syrian Drought Triggers Rural Exodus
by Lina Sinjab, BBC, UK - As you drive along the Euphrates river in northern Syria, you see lush green fields, but keep traveling east, and the land that was once filled with life is now dry, barren and empty....
Syrian-Turkish Hydrodiplomacy
by Marwa Daoudy, Syria Today, Syria - Since 1962, Syria, Iraq and Turkey have been meeting on a regular basis to discuss water developments in the Euphrates and Tigris basins....
Home of the Blues
by Emma LeBlanc, JO, Jordan - The Dar Al Karameh in Damascus is neither an old age home nor a mental institution, though it serves some functions of both. Within its walls live men and women who have failed—or refused—to...
Syria’s Importance
by Beril Dedeoglu, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Turkey plays a critical role in every effort concerning Syria's new position in the new global balance of power, and consequently, it plays an important role in determining this country's future....
Iraqi Women Refugees: Surviving in Syria
by Jane Gabriel, openDemocracy, UK - There are believed to be more than three million Iraqi refugees living in Syria: initially allowed in without restriction and treated as guests, they are finding it harder to survive as months turn into...
Deadly U.S. Assault in Syria Possibly Bush's Parting Shot
by Sana Abdallah, Middle East Times, USA - In an unprecedented military assault since the American-led invasion of Iraq more than five years ago, U.S. forces have apparently launched a cross-border attack into Syrian territory that killed eight people, largely...
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