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Syrian Chef Finds Unlikely Fame and Love in Gaza
Syria Deeply met with Wareef Kaseem Hamdeo, a chef from Aleppo who moved to the Gaza Strip and became a local celebrity after opening a Syrian restaurant.
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Syria Deeply met with Wareef Kaseem Hamdeo, a chef from Aleppo who moved to the Gaza Strip and became a local celebrity after opening a Syrian restaurant.
The Golden State leads the world in technology, but is hardly a model in handling its own water resources.
SACRAMENTO BEE: Leakage in Water Distribution Lines a Growing Concern Statewide; Legislative Fix Proposed.
Local residents are enduring ISIS’s punitive home confiscations and other strict policies.
Although some members of the Syrian opposition have called for Israeli support to topple Assad, many Syrians view these proposals as controversial.
Syrian Druze in the occupied Golan Heights view Israel’s Syria strategy with anger and caution, locals tell Syria Deeply.
With few other options, Syrian refugees in Lebanon are forced to live as second-class citizens with ever-greater restrictions on their daily lives.
Recent crucial events are not likely to prove the beginning of the end of the war, a top academic tells Syria Deeply.
Over the past year, an increasing number of Syrians have attempted to flee to Europe, crossing the Mediterranean illegally in overcrowded boats at the mercy of smugglers.
The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, which patrols the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, has reported Israeli contact with Syrian rebels over 18 months. Syria accused Israel in attacks near Damascus today.
Lebanon fears that Islamic State and other militant forces – pressed by Hezbollah and Syria into the mountains along Lebanon’s border – are trying to break into populated areas.
With Jabhat al-Nusra increasingly emboldened in and around the Golan Heights, will there be a different reaction than usual?
The traditional enemy of Hezbollah has been Israel. But the Shiite group is now also defending the Syrian regime and Lebanon’s borders from the Sunni Islamic State, stretching its resources.
As the Syrian conflict spills over the Lebanese border, the LAF is maintaining a defensive strategy, leaving the aggressive pursuit of ISIS and various rebel groups to Hezbollah.
Hassan Hassan
Aleppo was the Syrian rebels’ first big prize. If Assad retakes it, is the war as good as over?
As the global spotlight shifts to the ground offensive in Palestine, reverberations are being felt in Syria, with which Israel shares a border – and a contentious history.
Experts weigh in on the group’s current power, its future potential on the ground and the challenges facing al-Bahra as he takes the reins.
Syrian regime gains in the strategic Qalamoun area face a counterattack by rebels holed up across the border in Lebanon. Post-Ottoman boundaries are dissolving in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Though Hassan Nasrallah says he’s willing to “sacrifice for Iraq five times as much as we sacrificed in Syria,” his group’s Shiite support base views the fight against ISIS as a tangent.
Our experts weigh in on why this weekend’s attack signals a change in tensions between Syria and its Israeli neighbors.
The Lebanese militant group has backed Assad since the start of the war. But at what price to its own cause?
Meet the two (other) candidates running in the presidential election set to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.
This week’s presidential elections are the first national vote held in decades. We talk to pro-government and pro-rebel Syrians from across the country, asking who they’re voting for and why.
Phil Sands / The National
The National’s Syria correspondent on deteriorating rebel ties on the southern front.
Is the regime’s offensive in Deraa pegged to an increase in tensions between rebel factions here?
As tensions increase in the south between the Free Syrian Army and Jabhat al-Nusra, Assad focuses on the north, where an increased number of high-profile bombings have attracted international attention.
Charles Lister Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
“This appears to be an extremely important development,” writes Charles Lister in the Huffington Post.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
After the Israeli army fires air strikes at Syrian army points over the Golan Heights cease-fire line, fears grow that the country will be pulled further into the three-year-old civil war. From Herzliya, our experts weigh in on that possibility.
Aaron David Miller
There are many reasons that President Barack Obama doesn’t want to get involved in Syria.
Since 2005, Guardian correspondent Martin Chulov has covered crises across the Arab world, but none, he says, are as “emotionally exhausting” as the Syrian civil war.
HOMS – Nearly 600 days have passed since the Syrian government laid siege to neighborhoods in Homs. Now residents of those areas hope that concessions made this week in Geneva conference will help the approximately 250 families who need to be evacuated.
Aaron Y. Zelin and Phillip Smyth
As the conflict in Syria continues to spread throughout the Levant and adopt a broader sectarian tone – Sunni Salafis on one side and Iranian-backed, ideologically influenced Shiite Islamists on the other – it is important to know how the main actors have cast one another.
After the long road to Geneva II came a small win: an agreement to deliver food, and release women and children from the besieged areas of Homs.
The Syrian government began to barrel bomb the southern province of Deraa last month, which had previously been overshadowed by attention on Aleppo and rebel infighting in Raqqa. .
This week, Israel announced that it would be sending humanitarian aid across the border to civilians in Syria, a bitter enemy. “We can’t sit by and watch the humanitarian difficulties on the other side,” said Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.
Shadi Hamid
For Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, this was never really about Iran’s nuclear program. They will judge the interim deal on the basis of whether it strengthens Iran’s regional position — which it almost certainly will.
Joyce Karam / Al-Arabiya
With no political end in sight to the conflict in Syria, and no desire in Washington or the United Nations to get involved in a serious intervention, drone attacks might make their way into the Syrian skies to combat the rise of al-Qaida in the heart of the Middle East.
Frederic C. Hof / Atlantic Council
At a recent conference, Dr. Steve Heydemann called attention to an important statement by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that clearly outlines how he sees the relationship between the combat situation on the ground in Syria and the likelihood that a Geneva II conference would implement the political transition provisions of the Geneva I Final Communiqué.
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi and Fadel al-Kifa’ee
The small town of Yaroubiya in northeastern Syria (Hasakah governorate) on the border with Iraq recently came to the media’s attention in light of the takeover of the locality by the YPG, a Kurdish militia affiliated with the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
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