Why the U.S. should not strike Syria
September 1, 2013
By Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro/USC Annenberg's Digital News
“We should ask ourse...
interviews
After eight years of military service, one Syrian soldier prepares for a long-awaited return to ‘normal life’
Somur Abu Fida never expected his engagement to last so long.
But just months after the Syrian Ara...
Brigade 155: launchpad for chemical weapons
August 29, 2013
Salam Mohammed, 30, is a correspondent for the Sham News Network in Outer Damascus...
Regime loyalists flee for their lives, says Damascus-based reporter
August 28, 2013
Abu Fouad, a 32 year-old correspondent with Orient News, says that news of an im...
Kerry: 'With our own eyes, we have all of us become witnesses'
August 26, 2013 The following is an unedited transcript of Secretary of State John Kerry's rem...
Something happened to their brains, says doctor treating chemical gas victims
August 25, 2013
Dr. Abu Akram, who trained at Damascus University and left his private practice du...
Eyewitness describes chaos in hours following Hammouriya attack
August 22, 2013
Um Qamar, 53, is a housewife from the conservative eastern suburb of Hammouriya, w...
‘We went to civilians’ houses and evacuated whole dead families’
August 21, 2013
Mohammad Salah al-Dien, 26, lives in the east Ghouta town of Zamalka, a few miles ...
‘Extremist brigades are harmful to the revolution’s existence and future’
Auguest 20, 2013
Mwafak Zreiq, 58, is a Syrian writer and political analyst now living in Riyadh, ...
'Regime will fall in Damascus, not Qurdaha'
August 15, 2013
Waheeb Ayoub is a writer and longtime dissident of the Assad dynasty who lives in ...
'We stood with the regime because we were afraid to perish': Dagestani villager
August 14, 2013
“Our blood is not Arab, so we stood with the regime because we were afraid to peri...
