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How Women in One Syrian City Keep Protests Alive

Every Saturday, a group of women in Salamia, a city in western Syria, meet to discuss the events of the past week in relation to the two-year uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad. The women, who oppose the Syrian government, draft a political statement expressing their views. They...

Rebels armed groups unite to liberate Damascus

   More than 24 military formations in the East Ghouta issued a statement announcing the unification of brigades and battalions on the Eastern Front to enter Damascus. The first operations were last night in the neighborhood of Jobar Damascus near the abbassiyeen...

Six Members of National Coalition Can't enter Egypt

Six Members of the National Coalition are trapped in Turkey, they can't return to their families in Egypt, after the Egyptian decision to impose a visa on Syrians, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. The members denounced the lack of attention to their circumstances by the coalition to...

Obama and Syria: a trail of half-steps, mixed messages

As the Syrian civil war deepened and anti-government rebels struggled to unify their fractious forces, the White House early last year quietly convened an elite group of senior policymakers to advise President  Barack Obama . Their unusual mandate: think outside the box on how to...