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Syrian Activists Challenge Mainstream Media: Daesh (IS) and Assad are The Same Thing – Syria Untold

The self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as Daesh) has been the center of the media’s attention for quite some time. It has the whole world gripped by fear by its grisly spectacles and medieval executions. However, the gruesome terror of the radical militia seems to obscure an equally ruthless antagonist:…
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About Being “Different” in Revolutionary Aleppo – Marcell Shehwaro

After a month and a half of living in the liberated areas, I would like to talk a little about my personal experience with a specific thing: how I experienced being “different” [secular, unconservative... etc] from the environment of the liberated areas. I’m a distinct person due to my body,…
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New Initiatives by local city council of Aleppo, Syrian regime aims to change ‎demographicse of Homs, civil initiatives against Al Nusra in Raqqa – Media ‎Roundup – (11/6/2013)‎

A local city council has ‎been elected for Aleppo in March 2013. The DamascusBureau describes how it also aims to coordinate and collaborate with the ‎‎“Neighborhood Assemblies” in Aleppo. Its first campaign is called “Keep it clean”. As regular trash ‎pick-ups do not exist anymore, the streets are littered with…