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Rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra waving their brigade flag as they step on the top of a Syrian air force helicopter, at Taftanaz air base. (AP Photo)

Opinion: An Injustice to the Unseen and Unheard

by Diana Moukalled | Jun 26, 2013 | Opinion

“God help us triumph over them,” chanted the girl carried on someone’s shoulders, before she tilted her head a little, cried, and then pulled herself together to chant again. This young girl has previously chanted against the regime of Syrian president Bashar...

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The Euphrates Dam, near the town of Al-Thawra, Syria (AAA)

Keeping the lights on

by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Jun 26, 2013 | Features

Al-Thawra, Asharq Al-Awsat—The lights go out daily in Syria. Sometimes the power stutters and then stops as night falls, and the blackness and sudden silence remind everyone how heavily they rely on electricity and how much they’ve taken it for granted until now. The...

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Rebels from Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front waving their brigade flag on the top of a captured Syrian air force helicopter in Idlib province, northern Syria (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)

Syria Appeals to UN on Al-Qaeda Affiliate

by Alex Edwards | Apr 13, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The recent announcement of a “merger” between Al-Qaeda and the Syrian insurgent group Jabhat Al-Nusra has led the Syrian government to appeal to the UN to sanction the movement. In a letter to the Security Council, Syria’s foreign ministry...

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Secretary-General of the Arab League Nabil Elaraby, speaks to the media, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Emigrants Adnan Mansour, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, and Iraqi Freeing Minister Hoshyar Zebari, look on during their news conference after the Russian-Arab League meeting in Moscow. (AP)

Will Lebanon be Held Accountable for its Pro-Assad Bias?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Mar 12, 2013 | Opinion

Lebanese foreign minister Adnan Mansour confused everyone at the Arab League because while the league itself was trying to offer Syria’s empty seat to the Syrian National Coalition, Mansour requested the reinstatement of the Assad regime’s representatives. What...

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The headquarters of Jabhat Tahrir Syria Islamia (Freedom for Islamic Syria), where Aleppo residents undergo judicial procedures in accordance with Sharia law. (AAA photo)

FSA Implement Soft Sharia Law in Aleppo

by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Mar 11, 2013 | Middle East

Aleppo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ala Jaleema leans against the wall, clutching her daughter in front of her. For the second time in six months she and her seven children are homeless: first the Syrian regime flattened their home with mortar shells, and then soldiers from the...