Military dissidents, especially officers, were not in line with the vanguard of the rebel fighting groups, which is organized along the lines of militias
Christoph Reuter is one of the few journalists who still risk their lives to visit Syria and writes about Syria for Der Spiegel. This story is republished in The Syrian Observer with the permission of the writer
The Mahmud Jawabra championship is organized by the Free General Commission for Youth and Sports in collaboration with the Next Day organization
The total number of divorce cases has reached about 400 per month
Some people in Lattakia think that the rising cases of young girls’ abductions is part of a plan by the regime to displace the original inhabitants of the city
The big area of concern right now is the Middle East. Countries around Syria and Iraq are having a lot of problems with a measles outbreak
New laws issued related to women in the self-governed Al-Jazeera canton
Alloush downplays the infighting
The minister outlined damage to health infrastructure caused by terrorism
The movement’s spokesman says the goal of the alliance is to topple the regime and prove the FSA are not all terrorists
This is the article which the First Magistrate Judge in Damascus is using to charge Louay Hussein with undermining the national morale and publishing false news
Asharq Al-Awsat speaks with the US State Department’s Daniel Rubinstein about continuing efforts to secure a political solution to the conflict
Arrest comes just hours after Assad agrees to study de Mistura’s proposal
Berlin conference ends without solution
A political solution is not viable unless all foreign forces are expelled from Syria
Circumstantial differences, as well as U.S. support, explain the difference in success
“We need not only a defeat in Iraq but a defeat in Syria.”
The new foreign-language service comes as part of Assad’s delusional contention that he and his regime are part of the international War on Terror
A conference in Moscow is being prepared in coordination between the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Egyptian authorities and the United Nations Special Envoy to Syria
Sahli worked in aid and relief before being arrested on her way to collect aid materials in June
