A banner from the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in Damascus, following a regime air strike on a food distribution centre: “We refuse bread soaked with our blood.” An air strike by Syrian regime forces on 23 March 2014 targeted people queuing for food parcels at an […]
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Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian intellectual and writer from Ar-Raqqah. He spent 16 years of his life (1980 to 1996) in Syrian regime prisons. Saleh has been heavily involved in the Syrian revolution, writing and working alongside young activists. He was in hiding in Eastern Ghouta […]
Read more →– 150 Palestinians died under torture in Syrian regime prisons – Syrian regime seizes assets of 58 dissident celebrities 150 PALESTINIANS DIED UNDER TORTURE IN SYRIAN REGIME PRISONS The number of Syrian-Palestinians who have died under torture in Syrian regime prisons since the start of the Syrian […]
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As the Syrian revolution enters its fourth year, various reports by international organisations paint a grim picture of the political and humanitarian situation in the war-devastated country. Naame Shaam has selected a few recent reports to give our readers a glimpse into the scale and magnitude of […]
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The Assad regime is holding prisoner at least 730 women and 33 girls under the age of 18 in different parts of Syria. These are the cases known to the Violation Documentation Center in Syria (www.vdc-sy.info). Many more women and girls have disapeared, and it is still […]
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The Syrian conflict is claiming more and more lives among civilians, including women. According to a recent report by human rights groups, 12,813 women have been killed in Syria in the last three years.[1] The report says most of them lost their lives in attacks carried out […]
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“What’s happening in Syria is an abomination, one that the world is watching coldly from a distance. Where is our emotional intelligence, our sense of collective justice?” The renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, The Washington Post, 14 February 14 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stephen-hawking-syrias-war-must-end/2014/02/14/a71dea72-94f0-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html
Read more →A short video showing the destruction caused by a Syrian regime air strike on the main market in Yabroud. ) See also this short video showing a barrel bomb being dropped by a regime helicopter on a residential are in Yabroud: ) COMMENT FROM NAAME SHAAM’S CORRESPONDENT […]
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu: “Both Al-Qaeda and the Assad regime are not only benefiting from each other but also supporting each other… Both sides are likely to be in touch behind the scenes… Al-Qaeda had received support from the Assad regime in the past.” Davutoglu […]
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