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The guardian reports on the latest massacre of the regime against civilians in a suburb of ‎Damascus. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, it is about 250 people ‎killed. This massacre seems to be consistent with the regime’s strategy to gain control over lost ‎territories. Despite these massacres,…

‎Civil activism: ‎„Art of Surviving“– this is how Syrian activists in Douma called their attempt to use the remains ‎of bombs as music instruments. Syria deeply shows the video of the activist who built guitars out ‎of weapons.‎ After Ahmed Moaz Al-Khatib declared his withdrawal from the Syrian National Coalition,…

Civil activism: Jadaliyya just presented different collectives of revolutionary photographers. The theatre group Hurriya wa bus (Freedom that all) released a new satirical prison sketch. The talk about internationel intervention and weapons delivery to the Free Syrian Army got a new turn when this Tuesday the use of chemical weapons…

Friday saw the second anniversiary of the Syrian Revolution. In the following we document a statement by our partner, the Network of Local Coordination Committees, that is still organising and supporting civil, unarmed resistance against the dictatorship of Bashar al Assad. Unified Message from the Local Coordination Committees in Syria…

On March 12, 2013 many Kurdish Syrians will commemorate the Kurdish Uprising of Qamishlo in ‎‎2004. ‎ In 2004, it was mainly Kurds who rose up against Bashar Al-Assad but could not mobilize the rest ‎of the Syrian population. Eventually, the uprising was brutally cracked down. Today, also Syrian ‎Kurds…

by Paul Hockenos The Syria solidarity group Adopt a Revolution keeps a low-profile, especially in Germany's capital city, where the Syrian government operates a fully staffed embassy. "Syrian activists living here have been badly beaten up in their own homes," explains Andre Find, a polite, soft-spoken German who works full-time…

In a rare Interview with the Sunday Times quoted in the Guardian President Bashar Al-Assad is attacking Britain’s government for being ‎detached from reality. As Britain announced to support his material support for the Syrian ‎Rebels, Assad criticizes this step as a way to “militarize the conflict”. Apart from these…

On occasion of the series of explosions and shellings in Damascus on Thursday, 21 February 2013, we document two press releases by opposition bodies. The first is of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces (Syrian Coalition, SC), that condemns "these heinous crimes [of the Assad regime] that…

As more and more Syrians flee to Lebanon, the country’s capacity to receive Syrian refugees ‎seems to have come to an end, reports the New York Times. The fear that the so-called “civil war” in Syria might also spread ‎over and end the fragile peace in Lebanon is increasing. Although…

‎ Does the USA have an interest in prolonging the violence in Syria? This is the focus of a report in ‎World News. According to the report there had been several meetings between Syrian opposition ‎figures and CIA figures in the city of Gaziantep. In such meetings, support was promised…