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Silent observers: How Turkish troops watch Syrians’ slaughter up close

Sadek Abdul Rahman 29 January 2020

While Assad regime forces and their Russian allies continued their war of displacement in the countrysides of Idlib and Aleppo last week, reports

Syrians under airstrikes: You’ve got email

Sadek Abdul Rahman 24 December 2019

This morning, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) sent an email to various NGOs working in northern Syria’s Idlib

The constitutional con job

Sadek Abdul Rahman 13 February 2019

In recent days, a leaked list emerged online purporting to name the members of a committee set up with UN backing, and the

Syria’s Rukban camp, where the world perpetuates a catastrophe

Sadek Abdul Rahman 31 October 2018

The recent videos coming out of the Rukban camp for internally displaced Syrians at the extreme northeastern tip of the Jordanian-Syrian border send

Between hellfire and a closed border

Sadek Abdul Rahman 29 June 2018

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Arabic on 29 June, 2018.] A war of this scale in Syria’s southern Hawran region—the

Rebels hold firm in south Syria as Russia enters the battle

Sadek Abdul Rahman 25 June 2018

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Arabic on 25 June, 2018] Russian fighter jets commenced military operations in southern Syria’s Daraa

Assad’s team, Syria’s supporters

Sadek Abdul Rahman 11 October 2017

Al-Jumhuriya’s Arabic editor ponders the political and emotional dilemmas of supporting Syria’s—or is it Assad’s?—soccer team.

The Road to Castello

Sadek Abdul Rahman 21 July 2016

Castello Road swoops around the north of Aleppo in a great arc that connects the east and west of the city, curving all

Maarrat al-Nu’man: A Hundred Days of Confrontation with al-Nusra Front

Sadek Abdul Rahman 21 June 2016

It was a melancholy dawn that broke on 13 March 2016 as far as the entire Free Syrian Army and the Syrian revolution

Syria from Unity to Union

Sadek Abdul Rahman 13 October 2015

States arise out of war, and are also eliminated by war. War is not just armed conflict but is also a conflict of