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Syrian Assassinations
Journalists walk away after they were refused access to cover the scene of the bomb attack that targeted the National Security headquarters in Rawda, Damascus, on July 18The reported assassination of...
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Descent into Chaos
Rebels calling the assault on the capital ‘Operation Damascus Volcano’ As the international community’s efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria have reached a deadlock with stark disagreements over the...
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Syria Reels
Members of the media take pictures of weapons allegedly left behind by Syrian rebels in the Midan area in Damascus on July 20, 2012.Events in Damascus and the rest of Syria today have demonstrated the...
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Fruitless Talk
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (L) and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu pose for a photo before a meeting in Ankara, on August 7, 2012While the fighting in Syria ebbs and flows, the...
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Behind the Stalemate
A rebel fighter of the Free Syrian Army, cleans his weapon in an underground shelter in the town of Maarat al-Numan, Syria.The front pages of the world’s major newspapers and the coverage of satellite...
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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,...
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Syrian 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...
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Soft 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...
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Syria’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...
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US 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,...
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Getting 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...
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What 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...
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Syria: 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...
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FSA 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...
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Islamic 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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