by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Dec 31, 2013 | Features
Antakya, Asharq Al-Awsat—One of the last things that Mahmoud did in Syria was to fit a new front door. It was another example of everything that was going wrong in Aleppo. A month before, he had upgraded his pistol to a submachine gun. Now he was fixing big metal...
by Wa'il Isam | Dec 6, 2013 | Middle East
Antakya, Asharq Al-Awsat—A Syrian rebel group calling itself the Ahrar Al-Qalamoun Brigade has claimed to be behind the abduction of 12 Greek Orthodox nuns earlier this week. The Islamist group announced that it is prepared to release the nuns in return for the...
by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Apr 20, 2013 | Opinion
In Bashar Al-Jaafari’s latest speech, Assad’s ambassador to the UN focused on the threat of extremism to Syria. He claimed that the Assad regime is a protector of tolerance and a bulwark against extremism. We are well aware of such false protestations, and I am...
