Presidential Election Day: A Surreal and Contrasting Picture
Zaman al-Wasl (Opposition website)
June 6, 2014
Voting took place as shells rained down within earshot of polling stations
Voting took place as shells rained down within earshot of polling stations
The votes will not represent the real view of the people
In a tit-for-tat move, a Syrian state television said authorities would expel Jordan’s charges d’affaires to Damascus
Photo emerges of people wearing shoes and women unveiled in the mosque
An airstrike on May 2, 2014 destroyed an entire ancient house and the wall of a church at Shinshrah archaeological site.
Why have some Syrian female opposition activists taken off the hijab?
When other Syrians want to flatter men from Deir al-Zor, they call them “brothers of Batta”, a reference to a local woman who resisted French occupation in the 1930s
An interview with Omar Dahi on the dramatic situation of Syrian refugees, whose numbers continue to increase and who feel abandoned by the world.
The number of recruits, especially from Egypt and Palestine, increased significantly following the threat of US air strikes on Syria in September 2013
Ceremony held at the Dar al-Baath auditorium in Damascus
Minority claims for asylum contradict their position towards Assad
Chechen jihadists have been fighting in Syria since 2012 with direct clerical guidance and indirect involvement by a number of intelligence agencies
Prior to the crisis, the small village had a population of less than 2000. Most of them left, but the number remained the same
Activists from Raqqa have initiated a campaign called “Raqqa is being silently slaughtered”
Mosib Salameh offers a clue to the workings of the Shabbiha community in the central city of Salamiyah
Syrian activists have accused the regime of dropping lethal explosive barrels on the most condensed residential areas in the northern countryside of Hama
Even Syrians who have escaped their war-torn country into Turkey continue to have their lives dominated by the Syrian regime’s far-reaching bureaucracy
Dismembered corpse found in Beirut was Syrian man “involved in prostitution”
Syrian Human Rights Network says 12,935 women have been killed in Syria since the outbreak of the revolution
At least twelve soldiers and Shabbiha members killed in the attack
