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.

This note was prepared by «Interstices-Fajawat«. As an initiative connected to Syrian society, we have put together this note to share our sources of information on Syria. We do not claim that these sources are all impartial or neutral, as we believe that neutrality is often synonymous with blindness or complicity. We ourselves have our own bias regarding our beliefs in revolution and internationalism from below.

Wherever possible, we have indicated the biases and partialities we have identified. We have chosen to retain in the list resources whose analysis we do not share, because they are nonetheless well-informed and transmit first-hand information, which just needs to be taken with great care.

TO READ AND FOLLOW US :

WEBSITES

At the top of the list, the first two categories contain most of the sources whose opinions we share, and which we recommend.

News and Analysis Websites :

• Al Jumhuriya (EN & AR) – based in Germany, Independant Syrian-led – https://aljumhuriya.net/ar/article_types/english/
• Daraj (EN & AR) – based in Lebanon, Independant Lebanese-led – https://daraj.media/en/
• Raseef 22 (EN & AR) – based in Lebanon, Independant Lebanese-led – https://raseef22.net/english/countries/207-syria
• Megaphone News (AR) – based in Lebanon, Independant Lebanese-led – https://megaphone.news/
• Syria Untold (EN) – based in Germany, Independant Syrian-led – https://syriauntold.com/en/
• From the Periphery (EN) – based in UK, Independant & International Media Collective – https://fromtheperiphery.com/
• Antidote Zine (EN) – based in the US, Independant – https://antidotezine.com/
• The Fire This Times (EN) – based in UK – Independant – https://thefirethesetimes.com/

Personnal Blogs (opinions & academic research) :

• Leila Al Shami (EN) – https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
• Elia Joseph Husseini-Ayoub (EN) – https://eliaayoub.com/
• Robin Yassin Kassab (EN) – https://qunfuz.com/
• Yassin al-Haj Saleh (EN) – https://yassinhs.com/
• Zyad Majed (FR & EN) – https://vendredis-arabes.blogspot.com/
• Joseph Daher (FR & AR) – https://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/
• Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi (EN) – https://aymennjawad.org/

Syrian-led Advocacy & Media NGO Websites :

• Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (EN & AR) – based in UK – https://www.syriahr.com/en/
• Pro-Justice (EN & AR) – based in the US – https://pro-justice.org/
• The Day After (EN) –  – https://tda-sy.org/
• Action Group For Palestinians of Syria (EN & AR) – based in UK (Syrian Palestinian) – https://www.actionpal.org.uk/en/
• Syria Direct (EN) – based in Germany – https://syriadirect.org/
• Wanabqa (EN) – based in Canada – https://www.wanabqa.com/
• SIRAJ (EN) – based in France  – https://sirajsy.net/
• The Syrian Archive (EN) – based in the US – https://syrianarchive.org/

Local or specialized information websites :

• Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution (AR, EN, FR) – based in France, Syrian/Palestinian-led NGO (Amaken) – https://creativememory.org/
• The Syria Report (EN) – Syrian-led – https://syria-report.com/
• Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (EN & AR) – Syrian-led, anti-SDF bias – https://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/
• Al Marsad (EN) – based in occupied Syria (Golan), Syrian-led – https://golan-marsad.org/
• Suwayda24 (AR) – based in Syria, Syrian-led – https://suwayda24.com/ + https://www.facebook.com/Suwayda24
• Rojava Information Center (EN) – based in Syria, pro-PYD bias – https://rojavainformationcenter.org/
• Hawar News Agency (multinlingual) – based in Syria, Syrian-led, pro-PYD bias – https://hawarnews.com/en/
• Rudaw (multilingual) – based in Iraq, pro-KDP bias – https://www.rudaw.net/
• Kurdistan 24 (multilingual) – based in Iraq, KDP owned – https://www.kurdistan24.net/en
• Rojinfo (FR) – based in France, pro-PYD bias – https://rojinfo.com/

General news websites :

• Enab Baladi (EN & AR) – based in Turkey, Syrian-led – https://english.enabbaladi.net/
• The Syrian Observer (EN) – based in Turkey, Syrian-led – https://syrianobserver.com/
• The New Arab (EN) – based in UK, Qatar owned – https://www.newarab.com/tag/post-assad-syria
• Middle East Eye (EN) – based in UK, Qatar owned – https://www.middleeasteye.net/
• Middle East Monitor (EN) – based in UK, Qatar owned – https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/
• Al Majalla (EN) – based in UK, Saudi owned – https://en.majalla.com/
• Syria TV (AR) – based in Turkey, Qatar owned – https://www.syria.tv/
• Al-Hal (AR) – based in the US – https://7al.net/
• Les clés du Moyen Orient (FR) – based in France – https://www.lesclesdumoyenorient.com/
• Orient XXI (FR) – based in France, Independant (NGO) – https://orientxxi.info/fr/mot1.html

ESSENTIAL FACT CHECKING WEBSITE 

Verify Syria (AR & EN) – based in Turkey, Syrian-led NGO 

https://verify-sy.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS (ex-Twitter/X & Instagram)

⚠️ Some of these accounts can share sometimes BIASED or ACRITICAL (sectarian, pro-Sharaa/HTS, pro-SDF/PYD, western…) content ⚠️

Syria Civil Defense – @syriacivildefence
Syria Mobilization Hub – @thesyriahub
Syria Pixel – @syria_pixel
Syria TV – @syr_television
Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression – @scmsyriancenter
Syrian Emergency Task Force – @syrianetf / @ualr_setf
Syrian Eyes – @syrianeyesteam
Syrian Feminist Lobby – @syrianfeministlobby
Syrian Hub Official – @syrianhubofficial
Syrian Network for Human Rights – @snhr
Syrian Print Archive – @syrianprintarchive_
Syrian Revolution Archive – @syrian_revolution_archive
Syrian Revolution Story – @syrian.revolution.story
Syrian Road to Justice – @road2justicesy
Syrian Solidarity Campaign – @syria_solidarity_campaign
Syrian Spot – @syrianspot
Syrian Women For Democracy – @cswdsyr
Syrians for Palestine – @syrians4palestine
Syrians For Truth & Justice – @syrians_for_truth_and_justice
Ta’afi Syria – @taafi.syria
Tastakel Organization – @tastakel
The Fire These Times – @firethesetimes
The New Arab – @thenewarab
The Syria Campaign – @thesyriacampaign
The White Helmets – @the_whitehelmets
Verify Syria – @verify.sy
Vive Levantine – @vivelevantine
Wanabqa – @wanabqa
Yarmouk Camp – @yarmouk.camp

BOOKS

👷🏽‍♀️🔧 🚧 – work in progress, please help us by sharing with us books about Syria written by progressive Syrians –

DOCUMENTARIES (with our rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️)

We find it unfortunate that most of these testimonies are inaccessible to the general public and restricted to discretionary festivals where only the intellectual elites and concerned people can see them, while the Humans in question suffer and die most often in the shadows. We respect copyright, but would nevertheless like to acquire all these films, so if you know how to download or buy them, please don’t hesitate to contact us:

collective@interstices-fajawat.org

2003 – A FLOOD IN BAATH COUNTRY by Omar Amiralay ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The movie examines the flood’s devastating impact on a Syrian village. With its powerful and daring critique of Syria’s political regime and the tribal politics that hold it together, the film foreshadows the wave of democracy currently sweeping the Arab world, with citizens finally rising up to demand a fundamental change in their countries’ leadership.

2014 – SYRIA : CHILDREN ON THE FRONTLINES by Marcel Mettelsiefen & Anthony Wonke ⭐️⭐️

The story of five young children whose lives have been changed forever by the civil war in Syria.

2014 – THE LAST ASSIGNMENT by Rashed Radwan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

On November 20, 2013, Iraqi freelance cameraman Yasser Faisal al-Jumaili crossed the Turkish border into Syria with his trusted Syrian fixer Jomah Alqasem. The Syrian war had been raging for two-and-a-half years and now saw the various rebel groups splitting one from another, mostly around ideological differences. The assignment was to access the groups and build a picture of who these men were, away from rhetoric, both on and off duty on the frontlines. For 13 days in Syria, the two reporters filmed the men behind the frontlines: fighters with the Free Syrian Army, Al-Tawhid Brigade, Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar Al-Sham, and even ISIL.

2014 – THE CAVE by Feras Fayyad

Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the supervision of paediatrician Dr. Amani and her staff of doctors and nurses, hope is restored for some of the thousands of children and civilian victims of the ruthless Syrian civil war.

2015 – SALAM NEIGHBOUR by Zach Ingrasci & Chris Temple

Two filmmakers fully embed themselves in a Syrian refugee camp, providing an intimate look at the world’s most dire humanitarian crisis.

2015 – A SYRIAN LOVE STORY by Sean McAllister ⭐️⭐️

Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.

2016 – HOUSES WITHOUT DOORS by Avo Kaprealian

Aleppo-Armenian filmmaker Avo Kaprealian shows the life of an Armenian family that has fled to Beirut during clashes in the New Village district of Aleppo, Syria, in 2015. Kaprealian documented the destruction in the district and the civilians who faced hardships. He managed to shoot footage from the balcony of his house […]

2016 – THE WHITE HELMETS by Orlando von Einsiedel ⭐️⭐️

As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.

2017 – LAST MEN IN ALEPPO by Feras Fayyad ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Volunteers Khaled, Mahmoud, and Subhi rush toward bomb sites while others run away. They search through collapsed buildings for the living and dead. Contending with fatigue, dwindling ranks, and concerns for their families’ safety, they must decide whether to stay or to flee a city in ruins.

2017 – CITY OF GHOSTS by Matthew Heineman ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The anonymous activists who exposed ISIS atrocities in Raqqa. Follows their undercover operations, exile, and risks taken to reveal the ruthless realities under ISIS rule. The story of «Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently»:

https://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/

2017 – HELL ON EARTH: THE FALL OF SYRIA AND THE RISE OF ISIS by Sebastian Junger & Nick Quested

A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.

2019 – FOR SAMA by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In a time of conflict and darkness in her home in Aleppo, Syria, one young woman kept her camera rolling — while falling in love, getting married, having a baby and saying goodbye as her city crumbled. The story before «Action For Sama»:

https://www.actionforsama.com/

2021 – OUR MEMORY BELONGS TO US by Rami Farah ⭐️⭐️

Three Syrian activists are reunited on a theatre stage in Paris. 10 years after the revolution, they revisit traumas and memories of a ferocious war.

2022 – THE LOST SOULS OF SYRIA by Garance Le Caisne & Stéphane Malterre ⭐️⭐️

In 2013, a Syrian official flees with 27,000 photos of corpses tortured to death in the country’s prisons since 2011. One year later, the photos of the Caesar Report reveal to the world the horror of the crimes of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.

2024 – MY MEMORY IS FULL OF GHOSTS by Anas Zawahri

Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and future in Homs, Syria. Behind the self-portrait of an exsanguinated population in search of normality, emerge memories of the city, haunted by destruction, disfigurement and loss. A deeply moving film, a painful echo of the absurdity of war and the strength of human beings.

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 who were only waiting for a signal to participate in the liberation.

After 58 years of one of the most ferocious dictatorships, and not 13 or 24 years as suggested by the Western media, Syrians needed at least 48 hours to breathe and share their infinite happiness, their cries, their joy, but also their tears of relief and sorrow too long contained.

Many abroad have not respected this need, continuing to infantilize Syrians and scorn their democratic and secular aspirations, constantly brandishing the Islamist threat in front of our faces since the start of the rebel offensive (which we refuse to reduce to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, because hundreds of other factions have joined the operation).

We didn’t need to be told. We were among the first to suffer this threat, which has been with us for years, but we also know that jihadist criminal groups didn’t just spring up. They were born out of the chaos produced by decades of colonization, armed invasion and indiscriminate bombing.

Having celebrated, Syria’s progressive forces must now act fast and not relax too early. The threats of a reactionary and fundamentalist backlash are real.

That’s why we want to share a few essential demands with you, to be widely disseminated within ALL Syrian communities and passed on to those who will ensure the political transition in Syria.

We must:

END THE VIOLENCE

• Put an immediate end to all military intervention in the areas of Idleb, Aleppo, Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Hasakeh and implement ceasefire agreements between rebel forces and YPG/SDF armed forces;
• Condemn and put a definitive end to foreign bombing raids on Syrian soil;
• Demand the liberation of Syrian territories and civilian communities held hostage by neighboring states and armed groups serving their interests, in particular Israel and Turkey in the Golan, Quneitra, West Damascus, Idleb, Aleppo, Raqqa and Hasakeh regions;
• Disarm non-Syrian armed fighters and ask them to leave the country, return home or apply for asylum in Syria, to be considered in the light of serious investigations into the crimes committed by the armed groups to which they belonged;
• Guarantee access to Syrian territory for humanitarian NGOs and journalists;

IMPLEMENT A RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROCESS:

• Protect and analyze the archives of the Assad regime’s security services, then make them available for consultation by those concerned, to enable grieving and reparation for the crimes, as well as prosecution of the perpetrators;
• Protect and allow full access to the lists of detainees and victims of the Assad regime for the families of victims searching for missing persons;
• List those complicit in slanderous denunciations and protect their identity to prevent personal vengeance and ensure fair judicial procedures, which may involve transformative and restorative, rather than punitive, modes of justice;
• Arrest and detain in humanitarian conditions all army, security service or armed militia personnel suspected of direct involvement in the commission of crimes against civilians and war crimes;
• Prevent any public humiliation or execution, and initiate justice processes that respect international conventions against the death penalty;
• Enable the establishment of alternative systems of conflict resolution and justice, allowing defendants to choose under which justice system they wish to be tried, while prohibiting the use of penalties involving corporal punishment or the death penalty;

GUARANTEE POLITICAL TRANSITION:

• Prevent the establishment of a political regime based on religious or ethnic affiliations, to prevent a sectarian division of Syria;
• Prevent the use of symbols of armed groups, as well as flags associated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, and other Islamist groups, in the public institutions of the new political regime;
• Organize a political transition to a confederal regime allowing egalitarian and non-segregative representation of the different ethno-religious communities of Syrian society that represent at least 1% of Syrian society: Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs, Christian Arabs, Druze, Alawites, Kurds and Assyrians. Ethnic communities representing less than 1% of the Syrian population must be given proportional representation in order to ensure respect for their specific identities and related rights: Turkmen, Circassians, Bedouins, Armenians, Mizrahim Jews, Yezids, Palestinians, Romanis, Aramaic/Syriacs;
• Freeze all cooperation with a neighboring state that does not guarantee full freedom for populations belonging to at least one of the above-mentioned Syrian communities;
• Restore full and unrestricted political and religious freedoms, as well as freedom of association, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and freedom of the press;
• Guarantee the freedom and protection of the rights of women and sexual minorities;

Without the implementation of all these demands, the self-determination of Syrians is not guaranteed, and the resurgence of authoritarian powers is to be feared. We must mobilize en masse to prevent history repeating itself and autocratic or reactionary ambitions compromising the democratic and secular Syrian revolution.

We must therefore loudly proclaim our solidarity with the Palestinian, Lebanese and Kurdish peoples in the face of oppression and unjustified violence. It’s not a question of supporting armed groups who carry their voice, but of sending a clear message to our brother peoples and to civilians who don’t deserve to suffer the repercussions of colonial wars.

We only want peace and democracy in Syria and the surrounding region.

Fajawat Initiative

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 created a false sense of unity, leading us to briefly believe that the Western left had finally understood the gravity of the colonial struggle. Except for the German radical left, which, trapped in its Christian guilt, could not perceive the presence of Ashkenazi Jews in Palestine as part of the white supremacist colonial project. Yes, German leftists, Zionism was inspired from the very beginning by German supremacist theories, particularly the concept of Lebensraum. Herzl himself wrote in his memoirs that he sought to “civilize” Eastern Jews, whom he viewed as akin to Arabs. Kibbutzim are not exempt from this legacy, even if they label themselves as “socialist.”

But never mind. We thought we were united, yet the heated debates about the “Palestinian resistance” embodied by Hamas soon led us back to discussions about the “Lebanese resistance” represented by Hezbollah. As progressive forces, we had to accept that authoritarian and ultra-conservative factions had become our allies because the settler colonialists imposed apartheid and genocide upon us. As always, just like in Ukraine, the imperialist war forced us into unbearable compromises with obscurantist and corrupt forces, eager to seize power and turn our already colonized societies into fundamentalist nightmares. Our oppressors had, as always, become the axis of resistance to American capitalist evil. Thanks to U.S. imperialism and its wars, we were forced to abandon our fight for liberation in favor of total focus on war. And war is never left-wing.

A side note: let’s not forget the visionary writings of Frantz Fanon.

But Hamas is not Hezbollah. While we do not support Hamas in its exercise of power, we have, in some respects, supported its armed struggle against the settler colonialists. It represents a national liberation struggle waged by Palestinians, for Palestinians, against their enemy. On the other hand, Hezbollah is the product of a nationalist, inter-religious civil war (1976-1990), compounded by double foreign invasions by Israel and Syria, and foreign interference by Iran, which saw Lebanon—and especially its Shiite community—as a key strategic asset. Hezbollah was conceived as Iran and Syria’s mercenary, initially tasked with eliminating progressive and secular Palestinian resistance movements in Lebanon, along with their Lebanese allies.

Recall the massacre of Palestinian refugees at Tal al-Zaatar, with the complicity of the Syrian army.

Recall Yasser Arafat’s anger at Hafez al-Assad and the breakdown of alliances between the PLO and Syria.

Remember the assassination of Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt, a friend and ally of Arafat, by the Syrian Social-Nationalist Party’s henchmen in 1976.

Remember the denial of political freedoms to Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria, enforced by Hezbollah and the Assad regime, from 1980 to today.

And if you don’t remember, please educate yourselves!

We cannot list all the betrayals of the Palestinian cause and the crimes committed against Palestinians and Syrians by Hezbollah, nor their compromises with Western capitalism. However, we encourage you to read Joseph Daher’s enlightening book, «Hezbollah, Religious Fundamentalism and Liberalism».

Joseph Daher is a fellow Arab leftist.

Recall the kidnapping and murder of Michel Seurat in 1985 by Islamic Jihad, affiliated with Hezbollah, on orders from Hafez al-Assad. Seurat, a man of the left and author of «L’État de Barbarie», was married to Syrian writer Marie Seurat. Their daughter, Leila, now an expert on the Palestinian issue, has written «Le Hamas et le Monde», which you should read.

But let’s return to the main issue. The fate of the Syrians and Palestinians, two brotherly peoples, was determined by Iranian and Syrian interventions in Lebanon. Or rather, “separated” by these interventions.

Hafez al-Assad imprisoned progressive left-wing activists for years, followed by his son Bashar in continuing this counter-revolutionary effort.

When thousands of Syrians, including left-wing progressives, rose up against Assad’s fascism, Iran, Hezbollah, and eventually Russia actively joined the counter-revolution, massacring the Syrian people, making thousands disappear in regime-run concentration camps, and proliferating gangs affiliated with Hezbollah and the Syrian Social-Nationalist Party. They turned Syria into a Captagon factory and a narco-state.

When Assad released thousands of Islamists to destroy the people’s revolution, then manipulated them to destabilize local resistance, did you see any of this?

When Assad, the West, and Russia agreed to focus on the Islamist threat, did you not see that the rhetoric against terrorism is always used as a pretext to crush revolutions? Did you not realize that many of the recruits for Al-Qaeda and ISIS were non-Syrians, many of them from the West, recruited within your backyards ?

The Islamic State organized massacres in Paris, then beheaded people on camera in the Syrian desert, yet you ignored the much more widespread atrocities committed by Bashar’s army and Shabiha forces.

There’s an old saying: “When you point at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.” That’s what the West did, and that’s what the Left did: condemning the Syrian revolution, condemning hundreds of thousands of Syrians to death.

Had you supported our revolution, ISIS would have been stopped in its tracks, and the genocide of the Kurds would not have happened.

YOU killed our revolution through your complicity.

Have you read the writings of Yassin al-Haj Saleh?

What about his partner Samira Khalil?

Did you know they were both imprisoned for opposing the regime and their affiliation with the Syrian Communist Party?

Have you heard of Syrian anarchist Omar Aziz, whose model for local coordination committees influenced the Syrian revolution, before he was arrested and tortured to death by regime agents?

Have you heard of Raed Fares and his pacifist efforts organizing Free Citizens demonstrations in Kafranbel?

No, fellow leftists, you haven’t heard of us. You chose not to see, blinded by your campism and ignorance of the specific political realities in the Levant. Like good Westerners, you applied your ideological frameworks to our situation, including your binary analysis: “all the enemies of my enemies are my friends.”

Congratulations, Western leftists, you’ve become the best allies of Eastern fascism and its imperialist backers.

Now, let’s briefly discuss the Palestinian issue.

Have you heard of the Yarmouk refugee camp? Did you know that Palestinian militias, dissident from traditional left-wing Palestinian resistance groups like the PLO, supported Assad in suppressing Palestinian revolutionary movements in Yarmouk? Were you aware that they were complicit in bombing the world’s largest Palestinian refugee camp (with 160,000 residents) starting in 2012, and its subsequent siege from 2013?

Read also about what Assad and Russia offered the Islamists in Yarmouk (Damascus) and the Yarmouk Basin (Deraa) in May and November 2018. Just look at the consequences for the Druze communities in Suwayda.

Educate yourselves, comrades.

If you read further and remove your blinders, you’ll learn that the Syrian regime is one of the few in the world to have consistently banned all pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Even during the genocide, Assad didn’t even attempt to organize a fake demonstration to bolster his pro-Palestinian propaganda. Nothing.

Except in Idlib and Suwayda, the only two regions not under regime control. In both cities, Syrians have consistently supported their Palestinian brothers and sisters.

But you didn’t see it. You preferred to believe that Iran and Hezbollah were the Palestinians’ only hope, even when not a single one of their rockets breached the security of the Zionist regime. Empty rhetoric.

Syrians were never fooled by Nasrallah and Khomeini’s bombastic speeches, grotesque threats, and pitiful fireworks.

But you, the Western left, thought they were the true axis of resistance, the cutting edge of anti-colonial struggles.

And now that Syrians have liberated themselves (and who cares if Turkey played a role, since it has no control over the millions of Syrians liberated from Assad), you’ve joined forces with reactionaries in the West to lecture us on anti-terrorism.

“Be careful, you Arabs, your rebels are jihadists who don’t take responsibility for themselves. They will betray you and destroy you.”

Thank you, white supremacists, for your concern. But on the Syrian issue, you’re no better than the anti-Deutsche Germans were on the Palestinian issue.

We, more than anyone else, know what the Islamist danger is. You discovered it on September 11th and at the Bataclan, and suddenly, the world wept for you. But did you know that over 80% of Islamist victims since the 1980s have been Muslims and Arabs? Did you also know that it was Syrians alone who confronted ISIS on their own soil?

Where were you to protect us, you who now lecture us condescendingly, when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham achieved in a week what we’d given up on dreaming of a decade ago?

Did you read the messages of solidarity and affection from Wael al-Dahdouh, the Palestinian journalist whose entire family was decimated by Israel?

No, once again, you saw nothing. You only saw the potential for Islamism in us. We Arabs are too backward to understand how democracy, socialism, and secularism work…

While Israel has waited for its dear ally Bashar to fall before attacking Syrians in Quneitra, your campism is out in the open, along with