Syria

IWL-FI Statement Long Live the Victory of the Syrian Revolution! No Trust in the HTS! People’s Councils Must Be Formed To Rule the country! Out with Foreign Troops! On December 8, the Assad dictatorship was overthrown by a democratic and popular revolution. The two main pillars of the regime, the army and the 18 repression […]

On December 8, the dictator Bashar el-Assad and his family fled to Moscow. The fall of the dictatorship was celebrated throughout the country, and by Syrian refugee communities across the world. Many Palestinians in Gaza and Al-Quds (Jerusalem) also celebrated the fall of the dictator, as did the Lebanese population in Trablous (Tripoli), Lebanon’s second […]

By FABIO BOSCO On Nov. 27, a coalition of Syrian rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and with the participation of sectors of Jeish al-Wattani (National Army, supported by the Turkish regime) began a major offensive on the province of Aleppo, taking large rural areas, as well as a large part of the […]

The series of earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6th have already left more than 46,000 dead and millions homeless in the intense cold of winter. By Fabio Bosco The center of the earthquakes was in Turkish territory where more than 40,000 people died, Syrian refugees among them. International aid has arrived but […]

The February 6 earthquake devastated Turkiye and Syria. Destruction and death are everywhere. In Syria the earthquake came after 11 years of bloodbath carried out by the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian and Russian allies. According to the World Bank the economy shrank more than 50% between 2010 and 2020. The Syrian Pound collapsed […]

We repost the full report on the extraordinary investigation about one among many Assad regime crimes carried out at Al-Tadamoun district of Damascus when 288 Syrians were slaughtered.

Since the Russian army crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24 – launching an unprovoked invasion that most analysts had deemed highly unlikely – Ukrainians have received sympathy from across the world. The acts of solidarity abound: thousands of volunteers have travelled to the Polish-Ukrainian border to help the refugees fleeing the war, donations continue […]

Russia always presented itself as the only guarantor and the magic key for a solution in Syria on a democratic basis, away from war and destruction.

In a recent article in Syrian Observer, 4 August Analyst: Russian Officer Expelled Syrian Defence Minister from Daraa the author gives an explanation why the incursion forces acted as they did. (I) Hamza al-Hourani, Syrian refugee does not completely agree with the article by Mr. Ahmed Rahal concerning his view of why Russian military used […]

Mahdi Amel was born in Lebanon in 1936, where he completed his secondary education. He then moved to France, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in philosophy. He worked for a short period in Algeria after the victory of the revolution against French colonialism and was closely acquainted with the revolution in […]

The Syrian revolution began in Daraa al-Balad on March 18, 2011, when Daraa children wrote on the school wall in February, “the people want the fall of the regime”. 

Disreputable outlets, often operating under the aegis of “independent journalism” with purportedly “leftwing” views, are spreading corrosive propaganda and disinformation that aims to strip Syrians of political agency  

On December 17th 2010, the fruit salesman Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to his own body in protest against both the seizure of his apples and police corruption in the rural city of Sidi Bouzid, in the Tunisian inland.

After nine years of destruction and massacres to stop a democratic people’s revolution, both foreign occupying powers and Syrian regime face hardness to rule the country and future is uncertain.   By Hassan al-Barazili   Occupation under World Recession   Syria is an occupied country today. The World Recession brought new challenges for the occupying […]

Ten months ago, the Armed Forces of the Syrian Dictatorship and their Russian and Iranian allies began a cowardly and criminal offensive to regain control of the northern province of Idlib.  

Few individuals have caused as much sheer human suffering in Syria as Qassem Soleimani, the powerful Iranian warlord assassinated on Friday.