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Arts + Culture: Lessons from the Minaret

Amal Hanano (@amalhanano)  –  April 27, 2013 3 Comments

Amal Hanano is a well-known Syrian writer and blogger, as well as an associate editor of Syria Deeply. Here she explores this week’s destruction of the Umayyad Mosque, the architectural pride of her hometown of Aleppo.

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In Kobani, Volunteers Cobble a Police Force

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie)  –  April 23, 2013 0 Comments

This is the first in a two-part series on Syria’s volunteer police brigades. 

AYN AL-ARAB (KOBANI), ALEPPO PROVINCE – With only a sixth-grade education and prior experience in temporary agricultural jobs, Fayyad Mula Khalil, the effective police chief in Ayn al-Arab, known as Kobani in Kurdish, admits that he’s not qualified to be the city’s top cop.

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Poison Gas Kills a Family, In Apparent Chemical Weapons Attack

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie) and Karen Leigh (@leighstream)  –  April 17, 2013 0 Comments

AFRIN, ALEPPO PROVINCE – After completing his prayers around 1 a.m. on April 13, Yasser fell asleep with his wife, two young children, and sister, who all shared a bed in a modest home in Sheikh Maqsood, the Kurdish-majority frontline neighborhood in Aleppo.

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How a Ballistic Missile Wiped Out Two Families in Rural Aleppo

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie)  –  April 12, 2013 0 Comments

HREITAN, ALEPPO PROVINCE – Air strikes and ballistic missile attacks from Scuds and other large rockets are now daily events in Syria. The victims and damage are tallied in spreadsheets, and only a small portion of the details make the news, because this kind of carnage is no longer new. It’s expected.

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Why Rebels and Islamists Are Pitted Against Each Other in Aleppo Province’s Manbij

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie)  –  April 11, 2013 2 Comments

OUTSKIRTS OF MANBIJ, ALEPPO PROVINCE – Arresting the suspected leader of an armed criminal gang is dangerous in the best of times. In today’s Syria, it’s probably deadly. A Manbij-based crime syndicate allegedly run by a man known as Abu Hashish has been robbing travelers in northeastern Aleppo province for months, striking as far as Salamiyeh in Hama and Ayn al-Arab near Raqqa from its base in Manbij, said Abu Ahmad, a fighter with Manbij’s Golan battalion.

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Regime Demolishes Illegal Slums in Hama, Displacing Thousands

May 24, 2013

Twenty thousand residents of Wadi al-Jouz, a destitute neighborhood of the hard-hit city of Hama, have lost their homes. This was not the result of bombings or gun battles, but an unlikely culprit in a time of war: urban planning.

Social Media Buzz: Extremists in the Spotlight

May 23, 2013

Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.

In Qusayr, the Gloves are Off

May 22, 2013

Tuesday marked the third consecutive day of a major offensive against Qusayr, located just across the border in Homs province. On Sunday, 28 elite Hezbollah fighters were killed and over 70 wounded in the fighting, catalogued by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. [Syrian] rebels suffered casualties twice as high, losing 50 men to air [...]

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Syria’s Untold Story

May 20, 2013

The following is the edited text of Jenan Moussa’s speech, with a new angle on Syria’s women, delivered at the 2013 Oslo Freedom Forum. Moussa is a correspondent for Al Aan, a pan-Arab satellite television channel based in Dubai. She makes frequent trips into Syria.