Battle for Aleppo’s Airports
A Syrian rebel sniper takes position during clashes with government troops defending the Minakh military airport near Aleppo on 11 January 2013. Source: ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS/AFP/Getty Images BEIRUT,...
View ArticleSyrian Starlet
Nasmi (R) in Aleppo on February 24, 2013. In Aleppo, as in other, less troubled cities, stars are born on YouTube. That is how ten-year-old Nasmi found fame in her war-shattered hometown. Three months...
View ArticleSoft Shari’a Law in Aleppo
The headquarters of Jabhat Tahrir Syria Islamia (Freedom for Islamic Syria), where Aleppo residents undergo judicial procedures in accordance with Shari’a law. ALEPPO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ala Jaleema leans...
View ArticleSyria’s Top Sunni Cleric Killed as Regime and Rebels Trade Accusations
Syrian Muslim cleric Mohammed Said Ramadan Al-Buti leads the weekly Muslim Friday prayers at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus on January 25, 2013. STR/AFP/Getty Images BEIRUT, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syria’s top...
View ArticleUS Source: State Department or CIA to Serve as Conduit for Arming Syrian Rebels
A Free Syrian Army fighter moves with an SPG rocket from one front line to another during ongoing clashes with regime forces on February 28, 2013 in Deir Ezzor. ZAC BAILLIE/AFP/Getty Images LONDON,...
View ArticleGetting to Geneva
US president Barack Obama delivers a speech on Mideast and North Africa policy in the Ben Franklin Room at the State Department on May 19, 2011, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)The...
View ArticleWhat Next for Syria’s Rebels?
A image grab taken from a video uploaded on Youtube by Al-Qusayr Media Centre on May 24, 2013 shows smoke rising from the site of an alleged rocket attack in the city of Qusayr, in Syria’s central Homs...
View ArticleSyria: UN’s Ramadan truce proposal ignored
A public waker (“Musaharati”) rouses Syrian Muslim residents with his drum to have their pre-dawn meal before starting the fasting as part of the Muslim month of Ramadan on July 10, 2013 in a rebel...
View ArticleFSA says Al-Qaeda to announce Islamic state in Syria
Rebel fighters look up listening as they take positions during clashes with pro-government forces in the Salaheddine district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on July 9, 2013. JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleIslamic State of Iraq and Syria targets Kurdish neighborhoods
Kurdish opposition fighters attend a ceremony on July 18, 2013, in the northern Syrian border village of al Qamishli. AFP/Getty Images BEIRUT, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...
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