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2025: The deliberate massacre of Syria’s Druze
Between July 13 and 21, 2025, the Syrian province of Suwayda in southern Syria was subjected to military aggression by armed groups affiliated with the Syrian de facto authorities, resulting in the deaths of more than 930 civilians and 550 Druze and Christian fighters. While this operation was widely presented as an intervention aimed at restoring order following inter-communal clashes, an in-depth analysis of the causes and circumstances of these events reveals a very different reality and highlights the full responsibility of Ahmad al-Sharaa’s non-elected government in what must be considered a war crime.
Podcast: First Newroz After the Fall – After the Fall (Montreal)
Our final episode takes us to the Newroz celebrations in Qamislo, where we see Syrian musician Samih Choukeir perform. Once back in Montreal, Virginia talks to Khuzama and Cedric from the media project Fajawat about the importance of Choukeir’s performance and their perspectives on the changing climate in Syria. Newroz 2025 was openly celebrated in Damascus for the first time and the holiday has taken on new significance in the wake of Assad’s fall. However, as of October 2025, the transitional government in Damascus has decided to exclude Newroz from the list of official holidays in Syria. We end the episode with an update from Khuzama and Cedric that was recorded in late September 2025 and includes talk about the massacres that took place in Sweida in July.
Podcast: Unrest in Sweida (Part 2) – From The Periphery Media Collective (UK)
Khuzama and Cedric from the Fajawat grassroots initiative return to STIR to talk to Leila about the July unrest in Sweida province, which included massacres against members of the Druze community. Our guests were in Sweida during the unrest, so share their moving first-hand testimony as well as provide analysis on implications for the future of Syria as a whole.
The Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, a deep Syrian wound
The history of the Yarmouk camp is a microcosm of the region’s history since the beginning of the Assad clan’s dictatorship, which can be described as national socialist. It provides a snapshot of the power relations and political loyalties that have led to the violent fracturing of Syrian and Palestinian societies since the mid-1950s. Yarmouk has also been a microcosm of the uprising and civil war that have ravaged Syria since 2011. Here is a comprehensive review of the chronology of the last fourteen years…
Is Ahmed Al-Sharaa mocking the Syrians?
The fall of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024 was an undeniable liberation for millions of Syrians, who suddenly and unexpectedly emerged from fifty years of totalitarian barbarism that had transformed Syria into a field of ruins doubling as a concentration camp archipelago, since which several hundred thousand civilians have disappeared or been forced into exile. However, six months after this historic overthrow, all signs suggest that beyond the coup, the promise of a better future is rapidly fading.
Podcast : Unrest in Sweida – From The Periphery Media Collective (UK)
Leila is joined by two Sweida-based activists, Khuzama and Ian from the Fajawat grassroots initiative, to talk about the recent unrest in Syria in which members of the Druze community were targeted. In the first part, they got into what happened, the fault lines, the role of Israel as well as the agreement that was reached. The second part, starting at roughly 23 minutes in, is a dive into Sweida and the Syrian revolution, the role of women and the situation since the fall of the Assad regime.
The Druze of Lebanon and Syria, a long history of insubordination
With the Assad regime having just fallen and the issue of disarming the Druze and Kurdish communities making headlines, it is worth recalling the highly political history of the Druze community in Syria and Lebanon. Here are a few key points.
It’s not complicated: A note to help you understand Syria
In the age of social media and information for all and by all, it’s more than ever necessary to build up a reliable list of resources on the subjects you want to analyze and understand. Particularly when it comes to international geopolitics. As an initiative connected to Syrian society, we have put together this note to share our sources of information on Syria.
Podcast : We Will Need Time – The Final Straw Radio (USA)
In this episode, you’ll hear Cedric and Khuzama, two libertarian communists with connections to Syria and editor contributors to the blog interstices-fajawat.org , speaking about their observations of what’s been going on leading up to and through the ouster of Bashar Al-Assad, as well as complications among various factions on the ground and the view from the Syrian diaspora.
Call to all Syrian progressive forces !
Apart from the accomplices of the Assad regime and the civilian populations still being targeted in the North and East of Syria, all Syrians are happy with the liberation of Syria thanks to the offensive of the Syrian rebels and the support of many Syrian communities...
Western leftist comrades, you failed your Levantine fellows.
We knew that the Syrian crisis would be the ultimate test. However, the Palestinian and Ukrainian issues had already given us the chance to recognize the Orientalism that permeates Western leftist circles. The genocide of our Palestinian brothers and sisters had...
Anti-Arab hatred and white supremacy, the seeds of Zionism
This article, authored by an individual whose personal trajectory has been deeply influenced by his family history, employs a rigorously anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian analytical framework to argue that Zionism is historically rooted in traditions of white and Germanic supremacist thought.
2023 – In southern Syria, the uprising of Dignity has begun
More than ten years after the uprising of 2011, the revolt has resumed in southern Syria. As in 2011, the mainstream media are not reporting much on it, as if popular uprisings in this region were only of interest if they coincided with the interests of the states that have been working to carve up the Middle East since the Sykes-Picot agreements in 1916. This time, the revolt started in Suwayda, the Druze governorate, in the middle of August and spread modestly to other towns, notably in the neighboring governorate of Dera’a. This text offers a contextualization on Syria in general and on Suwayda in particular.
Podcast: Why do French love Poutine – Dogma. Uncomfortable conversations about war (Warsaw)
In the podcast “Dogma: Uncomfortable Conversations About War,” you will hear conversations with anarchists from different European countries about how historical and political context influences the movement’s analysis of war. We will discuss uncomfortable questions about unreflective colonialism, imperialism, lack of solidarity, and the weakness of anarchist theory in the face of the multifaceted reality we have had to confront.
The highly opportunistic opposition of the liberal-nationalist Navalny
Starting from 2009, a new opposition figure emerged in Russia, gaining attention for his staunch anti-corruption stance: Alexei Navalny. Here is a brief look at the career of an ambitious man whose reputation as a liberal does not quite match the substance of his ideology.
After almost ten years of nightmare, the Syrian people gets back in the dance of revolt
“Jay alek el door ya doctor” In 2011, it all began when schoolchildren in Deraa (in the far south of Syria), inspired by the uprisings in other Arab countries, dared to dream of the tyrant of Damascus stepping down—Bashar al-Assad. Ironical slogans blossomed on the...
The Chechens, between extermination, exile, and counterterrorism
Since the beginning of April and the publication by the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta of an article mentioning dozens of arrests of people for their actual or supposed homosexuality, we are (finally) hearing once again about what is happening in Chechnya.
Palestine, 2014: War from the other side of the wall
At the end of June 2014, I traveled to Palestine for the second time, less than nine months after having to interrupt my previous trip to see my father before he died. Little did I know that just a few days after my arrival, a new war would break out.
Palestine 2013: First encounter with colonial reality
About the author: Cédric Domenjoud is an independent researcher and activist based in Europe. His research areas focus on exile, political violence, colonialism, and community self-defense, particularly in Western Europe, the former USSR, and the Levant. He is...
Chronicle After the Fall
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices-Fajawat, March, 23, 2025
Our 9th chronicle, 106 days after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad.
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices-Fajawat, March, 7, 2025
Our 8th chronicle, 89 days after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad.
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices – Fajawat, February 21, 2025
Our 7th chronicle, 77 days after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad.
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices – Fajawat, February 7, 2025
Our 6th chronicle, 62 days after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad.
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices – Fajawat, January 24, 2025
Our fifth chronicle, 46 days after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad.
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices – Fajawat, January 17, 2025
Our fourth chronicle, 39 days after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad.
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices-Fajawat, January, 10, 2025
Our third chronicle, 34 days after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices-Fajawat, January, 2, 2025
Our second chronicle, 26 days after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad.
The Syrian Chronicle by Interstices-Fajawat, December 26, 2024
Our first chronicle, 19 days afters the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
Mapping of the security situation in Syria between the fall of the regime and the massacres on the Syrian Coast (Dec 2024 – March 2025)
based on SOHR information
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All the killings (except those officially attributed to ISIS)
Actions of the Military Operations Administration (MOA)
Actions of the turkish backed factions affiliated to the Syrian National Army (SNA)
Actions (including killings) of the Islamic State (ISIS)
Actions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the kurdish police (Asayish) and kurdish armed forces (YPG/YPJ)
Actions of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Others security incidents
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* Click on each pin for details and link to the original SOHR articles
** We did not include all the casualties due to bombings and old ordnances.
Movies about Syria and Syrians after 2011
Little Palestine
The War Show
For Sama
The White Helmets
Syria Self Portrait – Silvered Water
The Cave
Last men in Aleppo
Our Terrible Country
Cries from Syria
City of Ghosts
Of Fathers and Sons
A Syrian Love Story
The Lost Souls of Syria
Palmyre
