December 13, 2016

By Abo Bakr al Haj Ali Yarmouk in south Syria is not known as a hotbed of extremism – but IS-inspired militants have taken over, and are preaching in its schools Young boys, their faces obscured by MEE, attend school (source: Khalid bin al-Walid Army) The village of al-Shajarah, Arabic for “tree”, is nestled in the

By Samar Batrawi While east Aleppo falls to devastation at the hands of pro-regime troops, debating over exact population figures and a young girl’s tweets is morally indefensible ‘These are appalling stories. Sometimes people say that to be on the safe side you should divide them by 10, or 100 or 200; but divide them as

by Malak Chabkoun The spirit of the revolution in Syria persists, even as Assad’s forces advance.   Regardless of what Donald Trump says he is going to do in terms of disarming Syrian rebels and his promises to Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian revolution is not dead. Regardless of how many armed opposition