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People walk on the rubble of damaged buildings after an airstrike in the rebel held area of Aleppo’s Baedeen district, in Syria on May 3. Reuters
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Photo of school wall destroyed in Jabhat Al-Nusra assault on Alouk. (Hannah Lucinda Smith/Asharq Al-Awsat)
The Boy who Grew up to Betray his Village
Ras Al-Ain, Asharq Al-Awsat—Mohammed Ezzo Heloub was, by all accounts, a very well-respected young man in Alouk. The locals in the village knew him as a baby, and they watched him grow up to be become a schoolteacher and then, later, a lawyer. He was a 30-year-old...Caption:
This Tuesday, March 5, 2013 citizen journalism file photo provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC shows Syrian man sitting on a fallen statue of former Syrian President Hafez Assad in a central square in Raqqa, Syria. Hafez Al-Assad ordered the massacre of up to 30,000 citizens by the armed forces, in the face of an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC, File)
The Brotherhood Starts Anew in Syria
While the Egyptian Brotherhood makes global headlines and Tunisia’s Ennahda Party struggles to remain in power, very little is publicly known about the state of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood. In recent weeks, much has been made of the decrease in the group’s influence...Caption:
In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, a Syrian boy shouts slogans against the regime in front of a flag of the armed Islamic opposition group, the Nusra front, during a demonstration in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. (AP/ Manu Brabo)
Opinion: Syria’s ‘liberated’ zones are anything but
A young enthusiastic journalist describes northern Syrian areas as “liberated” zones in her report. She’s surprised that the expression “not under the regime’s control” is a more accurate and more professional. “They are towns liberated of the regime’s injustice,” she...Caption:
A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on August 8, 2013 shows Syrian army soldiers walking on a road during an alleged pursuit of opposition fighters in the Latakia province, western Syria. (AFP Photo/SANA)