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On the road to Damascus…
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This is the stare of man who recently lost 3 of his children, a few meters away cries a man who just lost his #Syria
There is an attempt to erase the memory of Raed Fares, because his story embarrasses Al-Sharaa by painting a far more accurate picture of his Jolani persona and the things he was willing to do to monopolize power.
Raed wasn't an ordinary civilian. So this grievance isn't simply about the heartbreak of his murder. It's about a dictator's attempt to silence a civil society leader.
If it wasn't Jolani who did it back then, why is Al-Sharaa still doing it today?
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The irony of The Nation publishing reflections on the Syrian revolution now: during the war its pages were open to writers who framed Assad as the lesser evil and the uprising as a Western-backed jihadist plot. Some of us are old enough to remember.
Worth a read today, on the 15th anniversary of the Syrian uprising:
thenation.com/article/politi…
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At this point, the minimum that should be expected is the full release of the Syrian government report on the coastal massacres. The matter should not be sidelined or wished away with the passing of time.
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Something people don't know about Paul Conroy, despite everything that happened, he was desperate to go back to Baba Amr & retell the story of what the Assad regime did to him, Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik.
It's devastating he never got to go back to Syria, a country he loved.
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Devastated to learn of my friend Paul Conroy’s passing. He had superhuman courage and the biggest of hearts. He was also the most fun person to be around. An inveterate storyteller.
Soar high, my friend. There will never be another like you.
When dipshits fall, wannabe dipshits rush to speak-up first.
My dear compatriots,
Decisive moments lie before us.
The assistance that the President of the United States had promised to the brave people of Iran has now arrived. This is a humanitarian intervention, and its target is the Islamic Republic, its apparatus of repression, and its machinery of killing—not the country and great nation of Iran.
However, despite the arrival of this assistance, the final victory will still be achieved by us. It is we, the people of Iran, who will finish this task in this final battle. The time to return to the streets is approaching.
Now that the Islamic Republic is collapsing, my message to the country’s military, law enforcement, and security forces is clear:
You have sworn an oath to protect Iran and the Iranian nation, not the Islamic Republic and its leaders. Your duty is to defend the people, not to defend a regime that has taken our homeland hostage through repression and crime. Join the nation and help ensure a stable and secure transition. Otherwise, you will sink with Khamenei’s ship and his crumbling regime.
And my message to the President of the United States, President Trump, is this:
The honorable people of Iran, despite the brutal repression and killings carried out by this regime, stood bravely for nearly two months. I now ask you to exercise the utmost possible caution to preserve the lives of civilians and my compatriots. The people of Iran are your natural allies and the allies of the free world, and they will not forget your assistance during the most difficult period of Iran’s contemporary history.
And to you, my dear compatriots in Iran:
In these sensitive hours and days, more than ever we must remain focused on our ultimate goal: reclaiming Iran.
I ask you, for now, to remain in your homes and remain calm and safe. Stay alert and ready to return to the streets for the final action at the appropriate time, which I will communicate to you.
Follow my messages through social media and satellite media. If disruptions occur in the internet and satellite broadcasts, I will remain in contact with you via radio.
We are very close to final victory. I hope to be with you as soon as possible so that together we may reclaim Iran and rebuild it.
Long live Iran.
Reza Pahlavi
Congratulations to the people of Iran and Syria. The words "مرگ بر دیکتاتور" "death to the dictator" now belong only to history.
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My first article with @the_amargi is now out. It examines why Syria’s “unity” is so often treated as a fixed historical truth rather than a political problem. The piece argues that Syria’s centralized state is a relatively recent construction, imposed through mandate and force rather than built on a pluralistic social contract, and shows how this unresolved history shapes today’s crisis, where reunification by force replaces politics and unity becomes an ideological slogan rather than a viable political project.
theamargi.com/posts/syrias-u…
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الطبل الذي ابتلع فادي صقر ومحمد حمشو وخالد الأحمد ووائل عقيل ومدلول العزيز وفرحان المرسومي.. وغدًا سيبتلع سامر فوز والقاطرجي وأبو علي خضر وأشياعهم؛ والذي يلمّع اليوم قادة الميليشيات من "الباقر" إلى "الدفاع الوطني" إلى "الصناديد"، ويسوّقهم كرجال دولة…
هذا الطبل نفسه لا يجب أن يَغصّ بشادي حلوة!
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Today, five civilians were summarily executed in Suwayda. Local media reported that a group of farmers from Suwayda came under direct gunfire while harvesting olives in the village of al-Matouna in northern rural Suwayda. The farmers were displaced residents of al-Matouna, a village currently occupied by transitional administration forces, whose population was forcibly displaced during the July assault and barred from returning. They had entered the village only after obtaining security permits from General Security, which controls access to the area. Victims and injured were transferred toward Damascus, as families gathered at hospitals in Suwayda awaiting any confirmation of their relatives’ fate.
This crime comes amid a sustained escalation by the transitional administration in Suwayda. Yesterday, mortar fire and heavy machine guns were deliberately targeting residential areas. Suicide drones were being deployed and landmines were being planted. This escalation has been intensifying for days, causing further civilian casualties, the deaths of National Guard fighters, and extensive damage to homes and property.
The forces occupying more than 30 villages, in west and north of Suwayda, are composed of extremist and tribal armed groups operating under the authority of the transitional administration. Those villages and towns remain under STA's control following the July 2025 assault, and their residents forcibly displaced and required to obtain “security permits” to enter their own villages.
This surge in violence has coincided with the de-escalation of fronts in Rojava. It underscores that this authority has no political horizon grounded in human dignity, equal citizenship, or power sharing. Its sole conception of politics is coercion through violence.
After the genocidal massacres against the Druze in July 2025, a broad local consensus has emerged in Suwayda rejecting any form of integration with an authority that kills people for who they are. This is not a moral stance, but an existential one. The right to defend existence cannot be relativized or stripped of legitimacy by disinformation campaigns that invert victim and perpetrator, demonize the Druze, and whitewash the practices of the transitional administration.
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There was a time, at the height of the conflict, when every few months the same narrative about Assad being a devoted husband would go viral on Twitter as an obvious attempt to sanitize his image.
May his legacy now be remembered for what he truly was, a weak man who instead of protecting his most ardent loyalists spent his final days playing Candy Crush and sleeping with his officers’ wives.
Rami Jarrah retweeted
تبرير العنف يحوّلك إلى قاتل.
القاتل لا يُولد وفي يده سكين..
التبرير الذي يقدّمه لنفسه هو سكينه الأول.
لينا
Rami Jarrah retweeted
'We willingly risked rotting in Assad’s dungeons. Of course we were terrified. There is nothing wrong with that. We said our farewells to those we love, terrified we might never see them again, many never came back, determined to scream freedom in face of unimaginable oppression'
There are those who are low enough to question the participation of Syrians in the revolution under the banner of sweeping regional generalizations, this time their prejudice aimed at Syrians, simply because they belong to Damascus. To address this, I’m sadly going to have to personalize this message:
The depravity we’re seeing on X and other platforms, this dismissal of the sacrifices that so many have made for a free Syria, is sickening. They consider our contribution irrelevant because all they have grown to respect over the last 15 years is brute strength and violence, a poisonousness Assadist mindset, one that they now carry and preserve. As if courage only counts when it carries a weapon. When did this shallow bullshit mindset become the norm?
All of a sudden, those who raised their voices bare-chested in the face of arguably one of the most oppressive regimes in modern history are seen as “cowards.” It does not matter to them that we willingly risked rotting in Assad’s dungeons. Yes, of course we were terrified. There is simply nothing wrong with that. On that very first day, we said our farewells to the people we love because we were terrified we might never see them again, indeed many of us never came back, determined to scream freedom in the face of unimaginable oppression.
If you’re reading this and you’re one of those who harbor hatred toward us, know this: In that moment, we were thinking of every single one of you. We were demanding freedom for every single one of you.
Yet somehow, now, that means nothing to you.
But that’s okay, we'll cope. Because we'll surround ourselves with Syrians from every corner of Syria. We are proud of each other. We will stand by one another without the regional or classist narrow-mindedness you insist on carrying. If you choose not to be part of that, you’re the only ones at a loss, disillusioned by this pathetic obsession with speaking from a position of power and control over others. So let me say it plainly: We didn’t join a revolution, we started one. And when I say we, I mean all of us, all Syrians.
18 March 2011 in Damascus.
For those with doubts (original upload date): youtube.com/watch?v=NULwxE1Y…
Rami Jarrah retweeted
There are those who are low enough to question the participation of Syrians in the revolution under the banner of sweeping regional generalizations, this time their prejudice aimed at Syrians, simply because they belong to Damascus. To address this, I’m sadly going to have to personalize this message:
The depravity we’re seeing on X and other platforms, this dismissal of the sacrifices that so many have made for a free Syria, is sickening. They consider our contribution irrelevant because all they have grown to respect over the last 15 years is brute strength and violence, a poisonousness Assadist mindset, one that they now carry and preserve. As if courage only counts when it carries a weapon. When did this shallow bullshit mindset become the norm?
All of a sudden, those who raised their voices bare-chested in the face of arguably one of the most oppressive regimes in modern history are seen as “cowards.” It does not matter to them that we willingly risked rotting in Assad’s dungeons. Yes, of course we were terrified. There is simply nothing wrong with that. On that very first day, we said our farewells to the people we love because we were terrified we might never see them again, indeed many of us never came back, determined to scream freedom in the face of unimaginable oppression.
If you’re reading this and you’re one of those who harbor hatred toward us, know this: In that moment, we were thinking of every single one of you. We were demanding freedom for every single one of you.
Yet somehow, now, that means nothing to you.
But that’s okay, we'll cope. Because we'll surround ourselves with Syrians from every corner of Syria. We are proud of each other. We will stand by one another without the regional or classist narrow-mindedness you insist on carrying. If you choose not to be part of that, you’re the only ones at a loss, disillusioned by this pathetic obsession with speaking from a position of power and control over others. So let me say it plainly: We didn’t join a revolution, we started one. And when I say we, I mean all of us, all Syrians.
18 March 2011 in Damascus.
For those with doubts (original upload date): youtube.com/watch?v=NULwxE1Y…
Rami Jarrah retweeted
Every single word of this. To object is to identify as being part of the problem in Syria today. The discourse has been overtaken by shallow, disingenuous slogans to cover up for the abandonment of the core values and principles of our revolution. It is impossible to rebuild a fractured country like Syria on a foundation which increasingly insists on tone deaf exclusivity and purity contests.
The ugliest part is that there are some who are more passionate about choosing to abandon ensuring that all Syrians are entitled to the same basic rights, respect, freedoms and protection enshrined into law, than there are those who are willing to continue to defend or push for them. Arguments have dissolved into “which Syrians are entitled to selfishness, hypocrisy, wilful ignorance, historical revisionism, selectivity, impossible purity standards, weaponisation of victimhood and the adoption of recycled tactics used by the Assad regime and its ilk”, based solely on whether they fired a gun.
Coddling this kind of toxicity is a death sentence for Syria. The only result would be the accomplishment of what Bashar always wanted most: to irreparably tear apart what remains of our social fabric, to keep Syrians segregated, + most importantly, — to prevent us from maintaining our loyalties to OUR revolution. There’s nothing Bashar despised more than the fact we dared to stand by eachother, regardless of his relentless mission + cynical attempts to prevent it. We don’t need to explain ourselves to those who seek to continue Bashar’s objectives or those who cannot function without using other Syrians as target practice. We have each other.