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Syria Deeply Asks: What Is the Security Situation Now In Damascus?

Alison Tahmizian Meuse (@alitahmizian)  –  April 13, 2013 0 Comments

As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle send it to ask@newsdeeply.org.

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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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Do the Scuds Bombarding Aleppo Signal Total War?

Patrick Hilsman  –  April 05, 2013 0 Comments

“The weather is bad, so no MiGs today, ” says Abdu, my driver, as two French journalists and I roll into Aleppo under heavy fog.  The bad weather will likely protect us from jets, but not from Scud-like weapons – the tactical ballistic missiles, first developed by the Soviet Union, which have now rained down for weeks on this besieged city.

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The Interview: An Unarmed Activist Who’s Challenging Aleppo’s Rebels

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie)  –  March 18, 2013 0 Comments

As two years of conflict have spread chaos over Syria’s largest city, bands of armed fighters here in Aleppo have been routinely linked to widespread looting and extortion in the territory under their control. To mute any public complaints, rebel groups routinely detain and beat up those who publicize their crimes.

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The Conversation: Forgotten and Under Siege in Damascus’s Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Alison Tahmizian Meuse  –  March 15, 2013 0 Comments

As part of our effort to highlight civilian stories, below is a conversation between News Deeply and a 33-year-old Palestinian activist from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, who asked not to be named. Here, he discusses how Yarmouk became was once “safe place” for activists in the wartime capital, until the FSA moved in. 

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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 [...]

Neighboring Civilians React as Conflict’s Effects Spill Over

May 21, 2013

Bloodshed has followed Syrian refugees across the country’s borders, from this month’s bombing in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli that left more than 50 civilians dead, to the Lebanese city of Tripoli, where Sunni–Shiite strife has exploded. And ever-expanding refugee camps are biting away at already limited natural resources. Jordan’s infamous Zaatari refugee camp, [...]

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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.