Anti-Assad Alawites hand out daring flier
CHAIR V. COFFIN: More than three years into the Syrian conflict, President Bashir Assad is facing pressure from an unlikely new source: the Alawites.
This flier is part of a so...
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‘China has a lot to gain by supporting Assad in a post-war Syria’: A conversation with Stimson Center researcher Logan Pauley
For 60 years, successive Chinese governments have stood doggedly by an official policy of “nonintervention” in the internal affairs of other states.
And yet an August 1 report in Syria’s pro-government Al-Watan newspaper claimed that China’s ambassador to Syria had made Damascus an offer of military aid for an imminent offensive to retake northwestern rebel-held Idlib pro...
Syria Direct: News update 5-11-2014
Campaign officially underway as opposition slams “Blood Elections”
The campaigning period for Syria’s presidential elections began Sunday, according to a statement from the Supre...
Rebels push for Latakia, announce new command center
COASTAL CAMPAIGN: Opposition factions fighting in Syria’s northwestern Latakia province announced the formation Saturday of a “Joint Operations Room” to mount what rebels are ca...
Regime forces bomb UNESCO world heritage site
March 02, 2014
Last month, opposition activists released video of a regime warplane directly targeting Krak des Chevaliers, a medieval Crusader castle and UNESCO world heritage s...
Once, there was an Alawite
SON OF TARTUS: In a darkened room, a Syrian man from the western province of Tartous describes having to leave his village after the scandal he caused by asking the local grocer...
Syria Direct: News Update 8-01-2013
* Qatar News Agency: Jarba says no negotiations until the Free Army and revolutionary forces are stronger on the ground.
* SANA: ِ"If we were not sure that we were going to win i...
Pro-Govt. “Syrian Resistance” Figure Boasts of Banias Operation
'CLEANSING' BANIAS: Pro-Assad Alawite militia leader, Ali Kayali, speaks of plans to “purify” the Banias coastal area. "Banias is these traitors’ only access to the sea," h...
Regime is “still strong with an iron grip on the coastal area”
May 3, 2013
Moataz, 28, is a dentistry student who asked that his last name be withheld for security reasons, comes from Ras a-Rifi in Banias. He was arrested by the Military Sec...
Syrian Army "sweeps" Tartus as opposition documents massacre
May 3, 2013
By Ahmed Kwider
Regime forces continued operations in the coastal Tartus province Friday as multiple reports of a civilian massacre surfaced and pro government SAMA ...
Top 5 events of the Syrian revolution 3-18-13
THE EARLY UPRISING: This week, SAS News presents its top five events of the Syrian revolution in chonological order, one for each day of the week, and we begin where it all bega...
