Opposition vows to fight until “new #Syria” established

Top opponents and rebels pitted against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad vowed on Friday to continue the fight until there is freedom and democracy in Syria.

In a statement published as Syria’s conflict entered its third year, the main opposition National Coalition said “our sole choice is to uphold the truth that ignited us, to have patience and continue the struggle of those who sacrificed their lives for our vision.”

Recognized by dozens of states and organizations as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the coalition added: “The large challenges still before us only increase our determination to overthrow the Assad regime and establish the new Syria.”

Syria’s rebel chief, meanwhile, vowed insurgents will fight the regime until it falls.

“We will not stop fighting until our dream of a democratic country comes true, by bringing about the fall of this criminal regime,” said Selim Idriss, who heads the mainstream Free Syrian Army, according to a video statement posted online.

“We are sure the regime will fall. We are doing our best to make the battle as short as possible, and to reduce the number of victims and destruction,” he added.

A day after France said it and Britain were ready to arm the rebels even without the consent of fellow EU members, Idriss renewed calls on the international community to back the insurgency.

“We call on the free world to support us with weapons, ammunition and humanitarian and medical aid, in order to stop the killing, and in order to build a free, democratic country for all Syrians,” he said.

Key opponent George Sabra also hailed the two-year revolt.

“The revolutionaries and our Free Syrian Army are advancing steadily towards the hour of victory, which is no longer far away,” the opposition Syrian National Council chief said in a video statement obtained by AFP.

“There is no safe place any more for oppression in Syria.”

Their statements came ahead of a conference planned for March 18 and 19 in Istanbul at which the opposition is due to elect a prime minister for rebel-held territories in Syria.

The planned meeting comes after two previous attempts to stage such a conference were postponed.

03/15/2013

Revolutionary banners - - لافتات ثورية - #Syria 

People have chosen the revolution, people have chosen the word.. In each protest, Syrians choose carefully their messages and word, to lift them high in their banners.


In Kurdish Amuda city, east south of Syria, Zabadani, in the west north, and Kafrunbul in the west south, banners hold a special position in Syrians hearts, these cities’ banners succeeded in drawing public attention by their wit and humor. Drawings, caricatures, jokes and miniatures telling the story of the revolution and allow the Syrian street to express its opinion. Making us laugh and cry, slap us on the face sometimes, but it’s always, far more truthful than all politicians speeches.

#Syria Oct 5/12 Yabroud, Assad is overthrown

8 Nov 2012 Bomb explodes in Houla, #Syria – video

A bomb is dropped on the town of Houla, near Homs in Syria, just metres from where a group of people are filming. The local men are filming the destruction left in the town when they rush to take cover after hearing the thunder of a jet engine. Just seconds later there is a large explosion at the end of the street

8 Nov 2012 #Syria : Damascenes braced for long war
Syrians shop in Damacus’ Hamdaniyeh Market on Thursday as violence grips the country’s capital. (AFP/Joseph Eid)

Woken up by artillery pounding the outskirts of Damascus, three-year-old Ammar runs crying to his mother who reassures him it was only a ball that hit a wall of their home.

Long spared the violence that has engulfed the rest of the country, the Syrian capital is now submerged in the war between government forces and rebels out to topple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

“He falls back asleep, but it’s me who spends the night in fear that a shell will fall on our heads,” Umm Ammar, 34, tells her friend, neighbor and fellow mother Umm Alma, 31.

“Death can come at any moment and the children are afraid of everything,” says the young mother, wearing a black coat and matching scarf.

The two friends, originally from Qudsaya to the north of Damascus, fled when their city became a battlefield.

In Damascus, they live in different neighborhoods but they were reunited for the first time in the central Arnus Square.

“Alma has got used to the war, and anyway I can’t stay cloistered in the house. Life must go on,” says Umm Alma, wearing a pink scarf.

The army, especially the Fourth Armored Division, an elite unit headed by the president’s brother Maher, is tasked with preventing rebels from entering the city and trying to evict them from strongholds in southern and eastern suburbs.

To prevent infiltrations, the capital, where the rumble of artillery and roar of fighter jets constantly reverberate, has isolated itself with multiple checkpoints at every entrance to the city.

The capital has been split up into eight sectors. In case of attack, each would be isolated to launch efforts to retake it from rebels, a security source explained.

A senior manager at a government ministry, Amira arrived late and exhausted for work, saying the crackle of automatic weapons kept her up all night and that the 20-kilometer commute to work took two hours.

“I can’t do this anymore. The drive has become an ordeal because there are seven checkpoints on the way and I could be killed or abducted for ransom or because of my religion,” says the woman, 30, grabbing a coffee and cigarette.

She knows there will be no quick negotiated solution.

“The government won’t be negotiating with terrorists any time soon,” she says, using the official terminology for rebels in an almost 20-month uprising against the regime that has cost tens of thousands of lives.

Plagued by attacks, especially car bombs, the capital has been disfigured by concrete walls, sandbags and streets blocked off by multiple checkpoints, resembling Baghdad during the bloodiest years of sectarian unrest in Iraq.

In the evening people do not venture out of their neighborhoods.

“Checkpoints in the streets are infuriating but I would rather be inconvenienced than have innocent people die in explosions,” says Yazan, 24, a government clerk.

While Damascus has not suffered the street fighting of the cities of Aleppo or Homs, the country’s flailing economy and skyrocketing inflation make their mark on everyday life.

In Salhiyeh, in the center, the owner of a jeans store complains that his profits have slumped 30 percent.

“People are saving and keeping their money for food, school supplies, electricity and water,” laments Tawfik, 64. “In the 80s [under a state-planned economy], we had customers but no merchandise, now it’s the opposite.”

In the jewelry shop next door, Fateh, is less down. “We no longer sell bracelets and trinkets. Now people buy gold, coins or necklaces, to preserve their savings.”

Faruq Shaman Hassiyan, 36, has more immediate concerns.

He fled the central town of Rastan eight months ago with his wife and seven daughters when, according to him, his neighbors stole their car, his livestock and house.

He has since put the whole family to work begging on the Damascus streets.

-AFP

7 Nov 2012 #Syria : U.N. Condemns ‘Grave’ Syria War Spillover into Golan

W460

The United Nations on Tuesday condemned fighting by Syrian forces close to a Golan Heights ceasefire line with Israel as a new threat to stability in the region.

Israel demanded action by the U.N. Security Council after one of its patrols in the buffer zone was hit Monday by bullets fired by Syrian forces who are battling rebels in the area.

U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said a mortar shell and a tank round fired from the Syrian side of a ceasefire line created in the Golan Heights in 1974 had landed on Israel’s side.

“The presence of military personnel and the military operations in the area of separation are grave violations of the 1974 agreement” setting up the demilitarized zone, Nesirky said.

“It has the potential to escalate tensions between Israel and Syria and jeopardizes the ceasefire between the two countries and the stability of the region,” the spokesman added, highlighting the “serious safety and security risks” to the U.N. unarmed force in the Golan.

The U.N.’s top political official Jeffrey Feltman said the fighting in Golan and increased tensions in Lebanon and Turkey showed that the “risk is growing that this crisis could explode outward into an already volatile region.”

Syria, stricken by a 20 month old uprising against President Bashar Assad, remains formally at war with Israel, which captured part of the Golan Heights in a 1967 war and annexed it in 1981. The move has never been recognized by the international community.

Since a 1974 agreement between the two countries, a 1,200-strong unarmed U.N. force, UNDOF, has patrolled the Golan buffer zone.

Nesirky said UNDOF had seen Syrian forces “conducting operations with at least four main battle tanks and mortar fire inside the area of separation.”

He said the Golan was “relatively quiet” on Tuesday but the UNDOF commander was trying “to prevent an escalation of tension” between Syria and Israel.

Israeli diplomats said the Syrian tanks appeared to have left the buffer zone but there was still fighting between the Syrian army and rebel groups as part of the 20-month old uprising against President Bashar Assad.

The Israeli military patrol was hit by gunfire from the Syrian side on Monday. Israel’s U.N. ambassador Ron Prosor said his country viewed the heightened tensions with “utmost concern.”

Prosor also called the presence of Syrian tanks in the Golan buffer zone a “grave violation” of the 1974 agreement zone.

“This represents a dangerous escalation that could have far-reaching implications for the security and stability of our region,” Prosor said in a letter to the Security Council.

“Israel has shown maximum restraint. However, Israel views the continued violations of the Separation of Forces agreement by the Syrian military forces with the utmost concern,” the ambassador added.

“The international community and the Security Council should address this alarming development without delay to prevent further escalation,” Prosor said.

A military spokesman said an Israeli vehicle was hit by stray bullets on Monday while it was near the Golan ceasefire line. There were no injuries.

Israel’s armed forces chief, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, said Sunday his country could become involved in the Syrian conflict, as fighting between the army and rebels raged near Israeli positions on the strategic heights.

6 Nov 2012 #Syria : Peaceful demonstration in Kafar Souseh Damascus despite the security clampdown

5 Nov 2012 #Syrian workers now drawing hostility from Lebanese hosts

Syrians have long come to Lebanon in search of better job opportunities, but the sudden increase in their numbers as they flee the war in their homeland has exacerbated tensions with their Lebanese hosts.

Nadim Houry, the deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa for the advocacy group Human Rights Watch, said he’d documented growing harassment of Syrian workers in Lebanon.

“We’ve seen the army and the police detaining and roughing up a number of Syrian workers. Most recently, the Lebanese army beat up 72 workers; most of them were Syrian,” Houry said. “The Lebanese army rounded up the migrant men in the neighborhood and decided to ‘teach them a lesson’ instead of doing police work.”

The United Nations has registered more than 80,000 Syrians as refugees in Lebanon, a number that, since most refugees don’t register, only partly accounts for the migration. Syrian license plates have become ubiquitous, especially since the rebellion spread this summer from rural areas to the richest districts of Aleppo and Damascus, the country’s largest city and its capital, respectively.

“I’ve met some people who went back to their communities to help – some of them even picked up weapons – but they’ve come back to Lebanon because they ran out of money,” Houry said.

Syria’s hand in Lebanese politics, along with atrocities committed while Lebanon was under Syrian occupation, created a long-standing animus that’s been projected onto vulnerable Syrians here in the past. But as the Syrian government has threatened to destabilize Lebanon because of support here for the rebellion that’s seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, Syrian workers find themselves trying to keep a low profile while facing a dilemma: Before the civil war, Syrian workers in Lebanon generally planned for a future in Syria with the money they saved here. Now more and more are considering moving their families to Lebanon to escape the uncertainty in Syria, a dynamic that could quickly bring an even greater number of Syrians to this small country of about 4 million.

“Initially, many Lebanese sympathized with the uprising, and that sympathy continues, but that sympathy hasn’t translated into sympathy for the workers. So we’re still seeing some of the violations we saw before, like random xenophobic violence, but now we’re seeing it in greater numbers,” Houry said.

Kidnappings of Lebanese citizens in northern Syria, followed by retaliatory kidnappings of Syrians in Lebanon, have added to the tensions, as did the assassination in Beirut last month of a general whose death was widely blamed on the Syrian government.

Syrian workers have seen their wages drop as their Lebanese bosses realized they had few other options and would work for less.

“Syrian male workers in Lebanon have often been double victims,” Houry said. “First they were victims of the Syrian regime’s neglect for years, which pushed them into dangerous low-paying jobs in Lebanon in the construction industry and other things.”

Few Syrians were willing to discuss the situation in their home country. They avoid talking politics. Those who agreed to be interviewed asked that their surnames be withheld.

On the roof of the building where he shares a small apartment with other Syrian workers, Mohammed said he tried to keep a low profile. Still, he was assaulted during a recent wave of kidnappings; a great irony, because those who attacked him were supporters of the Syrian government.

“I’m pro-regime,” he said. “Some of the people who hit me were people that have known me for four years.”

But the danger here is less severe than it is in Syria.

Another man, also named Mohammed, said he’d stopped going back to visit his family in northern Syria because it wasn’t safe there and that the rest of his family was planning to come to Lebanon. He said that even if the government fell, he wasn’t sure when he’d return because he expected further instability.

“Some of my cousins were here before the revolution, but after it began all of them came,” Mohammed said. “Maybe I would live there after the regime falls, but at least I will be able to visit. I’m not afraid, but it is dangerous there. Lebanon is safer; if I go to Syria I might just disappear.”

The tension is being felt not only by construction workers and other laborers. College graduates, another demographic that historically has frequently left Syria seeking work, now also find themselves with fewer options. Tension between the Syrian government and Arab Persian Gulf countries over support for the rebels who are fighting the Syrian government has led to more restrictive visa policies for Syrians in the Gulf.

#Syria: The Article

In August I was asked to write an article about the Syria Revolution, a broad picture in a limited number of words.

I never really asked what happened with my article after I sent it to the editor. I forgot I had even written it. Then just now, I was looking through my laptop files and found it again. I’v decided I’m going to share it, despite the length and outdated figures (which I’ve corrected in certain places). 

Feedback/comments appreciated! (In fact, demanded.)

Holding a place in every single history book written about the ancient middle-east, today Syria has definitely secured itself entire chapters and columns in future history books about the ‘modern’ middle east – and you’d be absolutely crazy to question why.

Sometimes I wonder how history writes itself, or indeed how the future writes itself. How we got to where we are now after being one of the most ancient civilisations in the world, witnessing the rise and fall of empires – from the Greeks, to the Romans then to the Venetians- empires I’ve never heard of; Syria has witnessed them all, seen them rise then seen them perish. She’s seen them sparkle and fade. She’s seen the glamour and how they proceeded to ruins. She’s seen the X-rated and the PG. She’s had affairs here and there, a marriage, and a divorce.

And Syria was never home to just one people, she was home to the entire world. At unique points in history she cradled the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, the Caananites, the Armenians, the Hattians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Nabateans, the Ghassanids, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Crusaders and the French.  She was home to the prophets too, such as Sayyidna Yahya – John – who is buried inside the great Umayyad mosque in Damascus; whilst the Prophet Muhammad (saw) used to travel to Syria for trade when he was younger, and it was in Syria that his destiny as a prophet was first realised; and the place where it is mentioned that Sayyidna Isa – Jesus – will return from, is Damascus.

The legacy does not stop at the prophets, we have the companions too, where over 500 of them are buried in Homs alone, the most well known of them is Khalid ibn Al-Walid; the magnificent leader who’s mosque still stands tall despite everything that’s been happening around it. Then we have our great scholars, Imam Al-Nawawy whose 40 Hadiths book has a strong foothold in every household today, was from Nawa, which lies in modern-day Daraa. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, another great Islamic scholar and jurists who dedicated his life to understanding the Quran and prophetic traditions was also from Syria, Hauran. And the list goes on. Then we have the Ummayyads and the Ayyoubids, the Mamluks, Seljuks and the Ottomans – empires – vast empires, all of whom had control over Syria at one point, bringing to her a diversity of civilisations and embroidering into her drops of cultures here and there making her the multi-coloured sparkling jewel she is today. Or rather, the multi-coloured sparkling jewel she used to be..

For today the only colour on Syria’s map, is red.

Syria’s wounds have been sore for too long. Still fresh from the eighties where over 200,000 people were killed and over 17,000 imprisoned in a brutal crackdown by the regime. The regime tried covering the wounds time and time again with worn out plasters, but only succeeding in making them worse every time. The untold stories of the eighties left a mark in many households in Syria, my household being one of them. With an exiled mother and father who managed to outrun death at a price of never seeing their family again, for 32 years and still counting, the wounds have transferred from Syria, into my heart, every time I see the pain in my father’s eyes or the tears trickling down my mother’s cheek. The quiver in her voice as she bravely reassures my aunt in Aleppo that soon she’ll be reunited with her, not knowing whether she means in Syria or in the hereafter.

The tragic stories of the eighties were left untold by Syrians in fear that voicing them would lead to their fate. New generations were born, desperately trying to unlock the key on the older generations mouths, but alas. Meanwhile the vacuum left by the untold stories was filled up with lies by the regime, feeding the naive an altered version of the incidents and warning them to never speak of it again.

A Kingdom of Fear.

On February 4th 2011, an elderly man aged 74, named Ghassan Najjar, called for peaceful protests all over Syria demanding freedom and justice against the tyrannical Ba’athist regime. The night before the 4th of February Ghassan Najjar was abducted from his home, he was taken to the regime cells and was tortured. Anyone else who indicated any signs of wanting to protest were also taken, others were taken over mere suspicion. The protests never went ahead, and there was no sign of the elderly man for weeks to come.

Then on February 27th something spectacular happened. Young primary school children in the province of Daraa mimicked their counterparts in Egypt and Libya, and wrote graffiti on the wall – demanding the fall of the regime. The regime were informed. They stormed the school and took the children, arrested them and beat them up. When their parents demanded the release of their children, the officers told them “Forget you had these children, and go conceive other ones. If you’re not true men and cannot face your wives, bring your wives to us, we’ll know how to communicate with them.”

And the spark was lit.

Entire tribes in Daraa took to the streets demanding the release of their children, the downfall of the regime, and the sacking of the governor with no dignity who uttered those wordsto them. Their call was echoed in other provinces in Syria, as other cities too took to the streets demanding the same.

And thus the Syrian Revolution was born. The Kingdom of Fear was broken. Lit by a mixture of old and young blood, authentic Syrian tribes and modern bustling city people. Not differentiating between each other’s religions or nationalities, the revolution welcomed all people, as they strode side by side down the streets of Syria demanding dignity and freedom.

The Syrian regime’s answer to the people’s calls of freedom and dignity was nothing but expected. Brutal crackdowns, bullets. Bullets that didn’t spare my cousin his life, killed with 5 bullets in his chest as he dragged his nephew to safety. Fire. Bombs. Bombs that destroyed my other cousin’s shop, as his neighbour forced him out of it 5 minutes before it exploded. Shells. Shells which razed my aunt’s house down, my 65 year old aunt who spent a lifetime in that house was forced out, as it crumbled down on her, leaving her internally displaced, and because of the stress and agony of everything that had happened to her, the lack of medical supplies to heal her – left her eventually dead. And tanks. Tanks? Tanks that never made an appearance in the Golan Heights yet were out in an instant against the people of the land. Tanks which were never seen in the face of the real oppressor, yet were there on the streets of Homs, ploughing into my uncle’s house, leaving him homeless, like my aunt, and eventually a refugee.

[Speech after speech, meeting after meeting, and the regime has failed to provide the Syrian nation with anything it demanded - other than martyrs. Over 40,000 Syrians have been killed by the Syrian regime since the beginning of the revolution, and that number only includes those who have been named. This Ramadan the death toll rose above 3000. 3000 killed in 30 days.]

The Syrian people, proud of their rich history and ancestors – their great grandfathers who fought against the French when imperialism struck their side of the world – decided to fight back to regain their land and freedom, from the occupiers; the Ba’athists, who have polluted it for so long by spreading injustice and corruption everywhere.

They fought back in their own ways. Some politically, mostly those who are outside and cannot return to the destruction that is now their home have resorted to their pens and words, voicing the suffering of the Syrian people to those who still can’t hear them. Others have fought back with weapons.. with a destructed house, a slaughtered father, distressed mother, a raped sister and a detained brother – many young men (and women) in Syria have taken up arms to fight their way back to Freedom. People in Syria, United Kingdom, USA, Lebanon, Jordan, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Greece.. everywhere in the world have contributed to the Syrian Revolution, making it their main aim to do whatever they can to bring down the dictator.

Stripped of hope by the rest of the world, and neck deep in their struggles, the Syrian people remain big in faith. Despites all they’re going through, and despite all assumptions and ‘analysis on the future’ conjured by distant analysts, the Syrian people have faith in the One God who will bring them justice and peace, eventually, at the right time. They have placed their hopes in the One Lord who will assist them through their struggles and make them victorious. For despite all the destruction and deaths happening in Syria, the Syrian people have sworn to never let Syria die. The eternal Levant which has been through every thick and thin, witnessed the birth of history and seen the fate of every oppressor up to date, will not allow any tyrant to bring her civilisation to an end. Syria will survive, even if when she’s at the brink of life and death, clutching her sides, gasping for breath- she will survive. She will overcome. She will rise high once again and see to the end of history. She will continue to witness the rise and fall of every remaining empire, until the very end.

Irish #Syrian fighters pass on lessons of revolution

04/09/12

Mehdi al-Harati, leader of the Liwa al-Umma brigade, and his fighters are under no illusions about the challenges they face, writes MARY FITZGERALD , Foreign Affairs Correspondent in northern Syria

EARLIER THIS summer Housam Najjair was in Dublin watching gruesome videos of some of the most violent episodes of the 16-month revolt against Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad.

“The horror of what I saw was enough for me to decide something must be done,” he says. Now Najjair, a 33-year-old building contractor with a Libyan father and Irish mother, is hunkered down in a corner of northern Syria with his Libyan-born brother-in-law Mehdi al-Harati, leader of a recently established conglomeration of rebel brigades under the name Liwa al-Umma, meaning Banner of the Nation.

Najjair had never picked up a gun until last year, when he joined the Tripoli Brigade formed and led by Harati during the Libyan revolution.

Theirs was one of the first rebel units to enter the Libyan capital last August. Now Najjair and Harati say they want to transfer the lessons learned during the Libyan revolution to Syrians hoping to achieve their own. “We feel as if we are their brothers,” says Najjair, sitting on the floor of a safe house with his gun by his side. “We want to assist in whatever way we can.”

Liwa al-Umma, which was established three months ago, is made up of more than 6,000 men, 90 per cent of whom are Syrian. The rest are mostly Libyans and other Arabs. It is separate to the rebel Free Syrian Army and its units are scattered throughout the country. Recent YouTube videos show a number of Syrian rebel groupings announcing they have joined Liwa al-Umma.

“We couldn’t understand why the world was failing to respond to the plight of the Syrian people,” says Najjair. “When they didn’t take a stand, we decided to act.” With Harati, a naturalised Irish citizen whose family lives in Dublin, and Najjair are several others from Ireland. They include an engineer who is helping Liwa al-Umma register all its members before distributing ID cards, and two men in their early 20s who are experiencing war for the first time.

One, a thoughtful, bespectacled 22-year-old whose father is a surgeon in Ireland, admits his parents were concerned when he announced he wanted to go fight in Syria. “They respect and trust Sheikh Mehdi so when they learned I was coming to join him here, they felt a little better,” he says. “But, yes, they are still worried for my safety out here.”

He frames his reasons for coming to Syria in philosophical terms. “I see my life as being about three things: searching for the truth; defending the weak against injustice and the oppressors; and helping to build peace in the world. The battle here in Syria combines all three.”

A 21-year-old with a wispy beard and strong Dublin accent explains why he decided to make the dangerous journey into Syria, despite never handling weapons in his life. “It is impossible to just sit back and watch Assad killing innocent people,” he says. “The slaughter of children in particular struck at my heart. I felt I just had to do something.”

The fighters from Ireland keep in contact with loved ones back home through snatched conversations on satellite phones or emails and Facebook whenever they get internet access. Najjair’s mother, Joanna, an Irish convert to Islam, leaves messages on his Facebook wall, telling him how proud she is of both he and Harati, and wishing they return home safely. Najjair, meanwhile, posts messages on Facebook that reflect his anger at what he sees as the world’s dithering over the escalating crisis.

“Where is the world’s conscience?,” he wrote in a recent post. “I can’t believe they can stand back and watch???…. well…. that’s ok!!!…we will not forget you people of Syria. We will fight with you until the end..when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes a duty.” Najjair complains about the Assad regime’s attempts to portray foreign fighters like him as extremists linked to al-Qaeda. “This is not an al-Qaeda jihad, this is a people’s revolution and we want to help.”

None of the fighters from Ireland are under any illusions over the challenges ahead. “Here there are so many different factions, objectives, and ideologies,” says Najjair. Harati nods in agreement. “The complexity of the situation here makes me feel like we were just playing games in Libya last year,” he says.

Follow Mary Fitzgerald on Twitter: @MaryFitzgerldIT

28/08/12
#Syria, Douma Revolution
This was the first protest from Daraya in its second week of the revoloution they carried roses and olive branches while chanting peacefully as the regime continued shelling them… yesterday, more than 300 martyrs were massacred in Daraya. To the highest heavens yarab! so lucky to be martyrs

28/08/12

#Syria, Douma Revolution

This was the first protest from Daraya in its second week of the revoloution they carried roses and olive branches while chanting peacefully as the regime continued shelling them… yesterday, more than 300 martyrs were massacred in Daraya. To the highest heavens yarab! so lucky to be martyrs

26/08/12

#Syria, WHAT BRAVE YOUNG PEOPLE TO PROTEST…Trampling on Security Code (the Liberal Union of Syrian Students)

26/08/12

#Syrian Revolution - coordinating city Darya..bodies of a family..found from Assad’s massacre!

25/08/12

FNN #Syria Yabroud a demonstration

for free men and women, 24/08/12

23/08/12

#Syria, unstoppable march from Masjid al-Omari to Masjid al-Rahmah in Kanaker, Damascus | Eid 2012