The eastern districts of Aleppo city are witnessing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, with approximately 15,000 people being displaced from the districts in which foreign militias loyal to the Asad regime took over. On Sunday and today, Palestinian and Iraqi militias took control of Masakin Hanano, Jabal Badru, al-Haydariyah, and al-Sakhoor, whilst Kurdish militias took control […]
Daily Reports on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 18/03/2014
The death toll on 18/03/2014 reached 86 deaths including four women and 16 children. Forty were killed in Aleppo, including ten killed in shelling on Sad al-Laws neighbourhood and six in Karam al-Beek district. In Damascus and it suburbs, 17 were killed including six killed in shelling on the town of Yalda (Rural Damascus) and […]
Genocide: The politics of Blockade
Throughout history, the political strategy of laying siege on cities has been practiced on a wide scale in many regions across the world, the most famous examples in our recent history being that of Sarajevo in the 1990s (blocked off by the Serbian army), the siege of Grozny imposed by Russian forces, and the blockade […]