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Opinion: Defending Assad for $37

Despite a desperate Assad increasingly relying on Iraqi, Afghani and Iranian mercenary, his forces are continuing to lose ground

Syria’s War Haunts Survivors in Their Nightmares

“Dreams are considered the first indication of the existence of psychological trauma. War changes the psychological balances and manipulates standards”

A Ghost City Full of Painful Memories

I turned my mind back to the moment we heard a knock on the door, my father opened it to greet my mother, my aunt and some friends, and my mother said, “Ahmad has been martyred!”

The Girl Who Fooled ISIS


A new documentary produced by France 24 shows life in the city of Raqqa through the eyes of a young Syrian woman

Analyst: De Mistura’s Syria Plan Risks ‘Another Srebrenica’

Khaled Yacoub Oweis, a visiting fellow at SWP, the German international affairs think tank, argues that the objective of international envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura should be the protection of civilians and not the creation of freeze zones, which, short of a balance of interests on the ground, will become killing fields

A Letter to Those Attending Moscow 1

“You must know those Russians are responsible for each additional minute the Damascus gang stays in power”

Waiting to Die in Aleppo

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