Several diplomatic appointments to Chargé d'Affaires posts in various Syrian embassies, including Washington DC and Berlin, have caused much uproar in Syrian circles.

A Q and A with Hurst author Rime Allaf, from the publisher’s November newsletter.

As Syrians wait for reconstruction and stability, they have mostly been encouraged by the signs and the gestures of important international actors and the leadership of Ahmad Sharaa.

Despite the mountains of evidence confirming the Assad regime as the perpetrator of this century’s worst chemical atrocity on 1500 civilians in greater Damascus, justice remains denied ten years on.

Since the invasion of Ukraine, I find myself disagreeing with some comments on Putin’s alleged state of mind. I wish I could believe that he now feels cornered and taken aback by events, but I don’t.

Had the powers leading the response to Assad’s chemical massacre neutralized his air force and WMDs, Syria and the world might have been a very different place today.

Seven years of bad luck? Syrians have endured 21 under Bashar Assad, yet are told to swallow more of the same as the genocidal maniac's malignant narcissism reaches new dizzying heights.

If letting Assad live and let die is the top agenda being promoted by such self-proclaimed responsible policymakers, we have much bigger problems than we ever imagined.

20 years ago today, I was at a Damascus hair salon when an assistant rushed to tell us Hafez Assad had died.

In a time of global pandemic, it is only logical that we adopt the Vulcan salute and all it stands for.
Live long and prosper.

You will never get Syria without knowing what it felt like to watch Abdelbasset Sarout, the goalkeeper of Karama Football Club …

The bold, beautiful and brilliant youth of Daraya, epitome of dignified non-violent activism, brandished flowers and distributed cold water bottles to the security forces facing them.

The images and clips of last night's rain of hell on Syrians defy description. Dozens, of which many small children, were crushed under rubble …

Some timeline highlights from the Pandora’s box that keeps giving …

Having spent the last couple of days at Westbahnhof, I hesitate when I claim emotional tiredness after having heard Syrian refugees' stories about their long road to Vienna and seen the state they were in.

Two kinds of savages have stoned Syrians to death: those who claim to do it in the name of God, in defiance of His commandments, and those who proclaim they do it in the name of Assad, under his commandment.

We should now pause to consider why even a huge chemical massacre, which killed some 1500 in minutes, resulted in the usual general apathy and even aggressiveness from the chattering classes.

In October 2003, Israel bombed a site in Syria it claimed was a Palestinian training camp. Of course, the Assad regime did nothing and repeated the sacred mantra that it reserved the right to retaliate at a time and place of its choosing.

On Sunday November 25, 10 little children were killed by a cluster bomb dropped on them from a Syrian regime warplane, as they played outdoors in the town of Deir Asafeer ("cloister of sparrows"), in greater Damascus.

Dangerous tweets about Syrian refreshments had already surfaced on the twittersphere, and the damage to American interests was incalculable.