Trump orders missile strikes on Syria. Russia calls it 'aggression,' international law violation
You knew it was coming. Trump's first war. It ended up being Syria.
Syria just gassed its own people. Trump blames Obama's 'weakness and irresolution'
How does the President of the United States respond to news that the Syrian government of Bashar-el-Assad has just gassed its own people, leaving untold scores of innocent people dead? That's right. Donald Trump blames The Black Guy. Again.
Anarchist bitcoin hacker flies to Syria to join a 4-million person anarchist collective the size of Massachusetts
Amir Taaki is a well-known anarchist bitcoin hacker whose project, Dark Wallet, is meant to create strong anonymity for cryptocurrency transactions; when he discovered that anarchists around the world had gone to Rojava, a district in Kurdish Syria on the Turkish border, to found an anarchist collective with 4,000,000 members "based on principles of local […]
City of Paris deploys "anti-refugee boulders" to prevent camping while waiting for space at a humanitarian center
The city of Paris has installed "anti-refugee boulders" beneath a highway overpass in Porte de La Chapelle in a bid to stop Syrian refugees from sleeping in the flyover's shelter while they wait for space to open up at a nearby humanitarian relief center operated by Emmaus solidarité.
Pentagon may propose that Trump send U.S. ground troops to Syria
The Defense Department is expected to propose that the United States send ground combat forces into northern Syria for the first time, expand the assault on ISIS, CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
'Russians were responsible for hacking the DNC,' says Obama in final 2016 press conference
U.S. President Barack Obama met with reporters today for the final press conference of 2016, before the new administration is due to take over. Live tweets below.
Want to help Syria war victims in Aleppo? These NGOs and charities need your support now.
As the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo continues to grow, many people are looking for ways to help.
How governments and cyber-militias attack civil society groups, and what they can do about it
The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (previously) is one of the world's leading research centers for cybersecurity analysis, and they are the first port of call for many civil society groups when they are targeted by governments and cyber-militias.
VIDEO: Tension mounts as French forces try to halt progress of suicide truck
We interrupt your growing anxiety at America's emergent cyberpunk dystopia for a tense missive from the Syrian War. In this video, an explosive-laden suicide truck bears down on a position held (reportedly by French special forces with the SDF) near Raqqa. The perspective on the video makes it hard to tell, but the vehicle is […]
How a small group of geeks led the Syrian refugee surge
In September 2015, President Obama raised the ceiling of refugees, many of them Syrian, who would be welcomed to the United States in the coming year from 70,000 to 85,000. While a wonderful humanitarian move, it also posed huge problems for the already-overwhelmed, byzantine systems in place to process refugee applications admissions. That's when the […]
Refugees, Women in Black and the Serbian police
"You can't tell who is craziest: the refugees, the police or those women," said a local shopkeeper. He made a cross over his chest, to express his sincere Serbian bewilderment. He had just witnessed ten shabby Afghan and Syrian refugees walking past, escorted by ten Women in Black from Serbia, Italy and Spain, themselves escorted […]
The dubious upsides of having a Syrian passport
Marcell Shehwaro's magnificent, sarcastic, angry essay in Global Voices expresses her gratitude for her Syrian passport, because it has allowed her to see how states are willing to punish the already brutalized out of rage and fear.
ISIS left behind at least 14,000 landmines when it retreated from Manbij
Once it became clear that a US-backed militia coalition was going to chase Isis out of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, Isis planted at least 14,000 mines, boobytrapping refrigerators, onion-baskets, rocks, appliances, tea-kettles, "everything."
British Muslim detained for reading a book about Syria while on a plane
A British woman of Muslim descent was detained and questioned by police under terror laws after a flight crew member noticed she was reading a book about Syrian art while flying to Turkey. The Thomson Airways attendant reported her for "suspicious behavior," which amounted to reading a book.
Iranians connected to phishing attempt on tortured Syrian activist
Former Syrian National Council vice-president Nour Al-Ameer fled to Turkey after being arrested and tortured by the Assad regime — that's when someone attempted to phish her and steal her identity with a fake Powerpoint attachment purporting to be about the crimes of the Assad regime.
The Death Way: comic tells the real world story of a 16 year old boy's escape from Syria
Toby Morris (previously) uses animated gifs in his regular cartoon strip for a NZ website; this week, he writes, "I interviewed Hussam, a 16 year old Syrian refugee about how he escaped."
United Nations reminds members including U.S. to not bomb hospitals and kill doctors please
The United Nations Security Council recently passed a resolution reminding members that intentional attacks on medical facilities are war crimes.
