Plea for all human rights organizations and media institutions to put more pressure on the Assad regime to save the lives those still in prison
The table facing the entrance of the Firdoss cafe in the center of Damascus still has its regular customers – a theater director, a poet, a musician and a novelist
Abu Bakr was a former officer in Saddam Husain’s Baath army
The women behind the operation were all graduates of a Baath Party training program
Shammat was talking at a press conference in Tehran
Talks are only of value if the issue of terrorism is dealt with
Darwish was set to appear before a Damascus court on Monday on “terror” charges along with his colleagues Hussein Ghreir and Hani Zaitani
Parents have completely abstained from sending their children to school in order to protect them from danger
Gold prices in Syria have skyrocketed in Syria over the last two years
Mean arrested, women lashed and others beheaded for religious crimes
Clashed took place near the city of Qusayr
Syrian delegates say Geneva was not designed to discuss humanitarian aid
Syria’s armed conflict escalated even further in 2013 as the government intensified its attacks and began using increasingly deadly and indiscriminate weapons, culminating in a chemical weapons attack on the Damascus countryside on August 21
Regime delegates focus on fighting terrorism, while opposition concerned with transitional government
U.S. official says the balance of power is in favor of the regime
Coalition legal committee has filed a suit at the ICC alleging war crimes
Mouallem was meeting with Ban Thursday
Caution towards the talks reflects a lack of faith in the international community
Reporters without Borders demands an immediate release of all journalists and others engaged in media work detained by the regime, ISIS or any other group in violation of their right to freedom of expression
Below is the speech of Assad’s Foreign Minister at the Geneva 2 talks as published by SANA, the official news agency
