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‘Britain’s Air Strikes Are Doomed to Fail’: Assad

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, warns that bombing will increase the risk of terrorist attacks by sleeper cells in Europe unless there is a concerted effort to destroy ISIS on the ground. The following is the full text of the interview, as published by SANA.

Razan Zaitouneh: The Absent Rebel

Razan worked to defend prisoners of conscience, and although she didn’t agree with many of them intellectually and ideologically, she ceaselessly committed herself to their freedom

One Man’s Unique Simplicity is His Only Weapon Against the War

“Many days I go to work in the morning without eating under the pretext that I am fasting, in order to leave something for my poor wife to eat during my absence. She thinks I am a saint or something, while in fact I would live on a cigarette and a cup of coffee that I prepare in my shop”

France, Germany Open European Window to Assad

Paris puts military cooperation against ISIS in the framework of a political solution, while Moscow pushes for a map of non-European-backed militant groups