Five years on from the kidnapping of the ‘Douma 4’ activists, Joey Ayoub pays homage to another Damascus suburb symbolic of Syria’s peaceful, democratic revolution. By the time Huda was arrested by regime soldiers in 2013, the siege of Daraya, a suburb of Damascus,...

Remembering the larger-than-life personalities and legacies of Raed Fares and Hammud Junayd, two iconic Syrian democracy activists assassinated Friday. In Aleppo in early 2012, at a discussion between opposition activists, the banners used in demonstrations in a small...

Editors' note:  Below,  we reprint part I of a three-part series by Javier Sethness, libertarian socialist, activist and author.  The links to parts two and three of this series can be found at the end of this article.  This series was originally published by Notes...

SyriaUntold this year published a series of testimonies reflecting on the issue of sectarianism in Syrian society and its links with popular oral culture. The contributions were written by Syrian men and women from different ethnic and religious background....

Below we publish an article by a group of Berlin-based solidarity activists who challenge Pink Floyd co-founder,  Roger Waters,  concerning his interview on the Russian state propaganda station,  RT.  The text of their letter to Roger Waters also follows. A handful of...

As it draws closer to the eve of September 30—when three years earlier Russian military intervention in Syria first began—it is telling that Russia’s influence in Syria continues to grow on the ground and internationally, particularly through various de-escalation...