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So, at long last, Iran has responded. Days of escalating tensions, regional warnings, and declarations of emergency across neighboring countries culminated in a retaliation: Tehran deployed explosive-laden suicide drones at Israel and launched surface-to-surface missiles from within Iranian territory, in response to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus. The strike was a slowly developing event and was highly publicized during the…

Young politicians are absent from the Syrian political landscape. To restore normalcy, we must recreate a “political marketplace” and encourage the younger generation to re-engage with political action.

An Interview with Philip Pettit

Ending Israeli aggression is in the entire world’s interest

Al-Jumhuriya English will now be publishing a weekly press digest every Saturday, bringing readers the most read-worthy English-language essays, features and op-eds from around the web. We’ve bookmarked your weekend reads so you don’t have to.

Can Islam be criticized as a centralized system or is the mere generalization of the religion a misunderstanding of its structure?

An interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, the ‘voice of conscience’ of the Syrian revolution, translated from Flemish into English by: Jorn Decock.

Now: End of Season is a short documentary film by Ayman Nahle capturing the final moments of preparation by Syrian refugees before their perilous journey across the mediterranean from Turkey to Europe.

This article looks at Russia’s imperial interests in breakaway regions of Abkhazia in South Ossetia, and challenges the prevalent leftist narrative on the reasons behind Russia’s intervention in Syria.

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Sherien Al-Hayek Translated by: Rana Issa 26 September 2013 Before we start analyze international opinion about a possible American strike on Syria, we have to agree on two things: First, taking a serious position on the Syrian problem today is not an easy piece of cake for the Syrians to start with and for those who are following the Syrian problem generally. However, it seems…

Alisar Iram 14 September 2013 Below are some of my thoughts on the Anti-war Movement and the antiwar campaigners, in addition to the infiltrators: the Assadis who are exploiting the war-weary West  To the Anti-war Movement What are you talking about? Is Syria the human sacrifice to be offered at the altar of the Anti-war Movement? You cannot buy peace by ignoring murder, rape, starvation, suffering and…

Razan Zaitouneh 3 September 2013 There is no area in Syria –whether liberated, besieged or experiencing confrontations with the regime– that does not need aid at all levels. These words are not intended to divert the little attention directed to a few liberated areas in Syria, but aim to pay more attention to the East Ghouta, now, before it is too late. We all know…

David Walker 1 September 2013 Over the last few days, the media, blogosphere and twitterverse have been alight with fully justified outrage at the indiscriminate gassing of civilians in a Damascus suburb. Horrifying images of dead and dying children are the latest abomination to emerge from this ugly – even by the usual standards of civil wars – conflict. The reactions to this gross violation…

Alisar Iram August 31, 2013 This article has two voices: my voice as a Syrian and my voice as a British citizen. My duality is a duality of vision and culture. Since the chemical attack, life has been very tough because the British Media became unhinged and the British TV channels choked to death with conflicting points of view and more often than not, with…

TheRepublicGS 30 August 2013 It is likely that a Western strike against the Syrian regime is imminent. While we do not find reason to lament strikes against a criminal who has killed, tortured, and humiliated Syrians for nearly 30 months, we neither find reason to rejoice at this extremely delayed punishment, served not for the use of chemical weapons, which have in fact been employed…

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh Translated by: Firas Massouh 26 August 2013 There is nothing surprising in the latest massacre by the Syrian regime in Ghouta, Damascus. The massacre has precedents in Dera’a, Karm al-Zaitoon, Houla, Traimseh, Daraya, Jdedat Artouz, Jdedat al-Fadel, and elsewhere. These attacks come on top of constant shelling by the air-force of multiple sites in the country causing dozens of casualties every day,…

Since the beginning of this year, residents in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, in southern Damascus, have been suffering from a suffocating siege, imposing restrictions on their ability to exit the Camp in order to obtain food and supplies for their families. As of July 2013, the siege has been intensified and civilians prevented from entering or exiting, or even getting close to the checkpoint…