For more recent issues, published by Red Phone Radio Ltd, follow these links:
- Area 55: Stories from Syria’s twilight zone
Syria Notes no. 28, Spring 2022 - A garden in Ghouta
Syria Notes no. 27, Summer 2021 - Target: The systematic bombing of hospitals in Syria
Syria Notes no. 26, Autumn 2019 - Testimony : Listening to Syrians
Syria Notes no. 25, Spring 2019 - Idlib pocket: Holding on to the revolution in Syria’s northwest.
Syria Notes no. 24, Autumn 2018 - After the fall: Debating reconstruction in a broken Syria
Syria Notes no. 23, Summer 2018
A number of articles from Syria Notes have also appeared on the Little Atoms website.
- Exile or death: Assad’s campaign against East Ghouta
Syria Notes staff - Assad’s torture chiefs
Brian Slocock - Is British policy in Syria helping Assad and Putin?
Syria Notes staff - ‘There is no Syria left’
Syria Notes staff - How the Syrian regime uses faith leaders as sockpuppets
Ivana Bacik
Syria Notes no. 22 — 28 March 2018 — view and download PDF
- The non-implementation of Security Council Resolution 2401
Syria Notes summary - Russian air force implicated in string of hospital bombings
The Syrian Archive, Syrians for Truth and Justice, and Bellingcat - Aircraft tracking
Parliamentary Written Questions on tracking, accountability, and early warning - Activists and feminists battle, and we all lose
Zaina Erhaim - UN Commission recommends actions on Syria detainees
Syria Notes summary - Coming home to a death in prison
Syria Notes summary
Mohamed Ma’rouf together with his family—from Sally Hayden and Ziad Ghandour’s report, ‘The Syrian refugees who want to go home.’
Syria Notes no. 21 — 6 February 2018 — view and download PDF
- The worst is yet to come for civilians in Syria
Naomi Kikoler - A constant stream of hospital attacks
Samples of recent reports and images - Meeting ‘Caesar’
‘Caesar’, Sami, and Ibrahim El Kasem of the Caesar Files Group - The Syrian refugees who want to go home
Sally Hayden and Ziad Ghandour
Syria Notes no. 20 — 15 January 2018 — view and download PDF
- Dividing Idlib
Syria Notes staff - Between Assad and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Reports from Syrians for Truth and Justice - Eleven medical facilities attacked in ten days
Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations - Under siege: Humanitarian access in Syria
Paul Musiol, Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, and Emma Beals
Syria Notes no. 19 — 12 December 2017 — view and download PDF
- De-escalation zones targeted with barrel bombs, cluster bombs, and IEDs
Syria Notes staff - Syrian refugees trapped in a no man’s land
Sara Kayyali - Syrian media on the Ghouta siege
Amr Salahi - A medical disaster
Waleed Khaled a-Noufal, Madeline Edwards, Omar Al-Balkhi, and Ala’a Mekawe - Protest in Aleppo over BBC report
Syria Notes staff
Syria Notes no. 18 — 14 November 2017 — view and download PDF
- Call for an end to the siege rather than piecemeal aid
Abdalmalik Abod - Exile or death: Assad’s campaign against East Ghouta
Syria Notes staff - Raqqa and beyond: The fight against ISIS and its aftermath
Kinda Haddad, Ikbal Ben Gaied Hassine, and Rana Khalaf
Amina, Noura, and Ghada, of Families for Freedom.
Syria Notes no. 17 — 24 October 2017 — view and download PDF
- What next for Raqqa?
Nadim Houry - Hundreds of families flee battle for Syria’s oil-rich east
Bahira al-Zarier, Mohammed Al-Haj Ali, Madeline Edwards - Deir Ezzor: A legacy of marginalisation and suffering
Karam Alhamad - Families for Freedom bring their stories to Parliament
Amina, Noura, and Ghada - A message from the women of Idlib
Via Women Now For Development
The Mukhabarat: Lt. General Jamil Hassan, Air Force Intelligence, and Maj. General Ali Mamlouk, National Security Bureau.
Syria Notes no. 16 — 9 October 2017 — view and download PDF
- Amnesty for fighters, detention for my peaceful husband
Naseem Al Sham - Syria’s secret police: the Mukhabarat
Brian Slocock - Lebanon: Who’s the boss?
Fidaa Itani - Nowhere left to run for 12,000 refugees facing eviction
Charlotte Alfred and Abby Sewell - The true cost of the Coalition’s war against ISIS in Syria
Kinda Haddad
Raqqa bombing victims, Ritaj, Islam, and Hadeel, from a family photograph.
Voting in Saraqib, 18 July 2017.
Syria Notes no. 15 — 11 September 2017 — view and download PDF
- Civil society between jihadists and Assad
APPG staff - Two Syrian women
Thanaa Jabi and Nora al-Shaalan - Saraqib’s local elections show democracy can break through
Manhal Bareesh - HTS storms Idlib City Council
Noura Hourani and Avery Edelman - The role of jihadi movements in Syrian local governance
Ayman Al Dassouky
Syria Notes no. 14 — 10 March 2017 — view and download PDF
- Is UK military action helping Assad, Hezbollah, and Russia?
APPG staff - Kingdom of horror, Assad’s Syria
Ahmad Khanshour - Justice in Spain for Assad’s victims?
Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers - Idlib Province: Waiting for disaster?
Amr Salahi - Analysis shows bias in BBC reporting of the Syrian conflict
Yasmine Nahlawi - Should the UK Government publish evidence of war crimes?
APPG staff
Syria Notes no. 13 — 31 January 2017 — view and download PDF
- Can drones break the sieges?
Airbridge Aviation - Wadi Barada: Rebels and families removed
Reports from Syria Direct via Scott Lucas - Eastern Ghouta, what is next?
Ahmad Khanshour - Trump, and Obama
Kenan Rahmani - The World Health Organisation, polio, and the Assad regime
Annie Sparrow - We call on the UK to welcome refugees banned by Trump
Rethink Rebuild Society
Grand Mufti Hassoun and interpreter, speaking to Ireland’s Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence, 1 December 2016.
Syria Notes no. 12 — 13 January 2017 — view and download PDF
- Can JPADS save lives in Syria?
How remote controlled parachutes can be flown across Lebanon’s border to besieged areas - News digest: After Aleppo
Reports on where the Assad regime and its allies Hezbollah and Russia are turning next - How Ceasefires in Syria Became Another Tool of Warfare
Lina Khatib - On the Russian video of a detained rescue volunteer
Syria Civil Defence - Hezbollah is the real winner of the battle of Aleppo
Sulome Anderson - No future in Lebanon, and little hope of a return to Syria
Interviews with Syrian refugees - What is being destroyed today
Robin Yassin-Kassab - A peace delegation’s denials
Ivana Bacik - Last chance saloon for Syria’s rebels
Haid Haid - On training Syrian rebels to fight Daesh
Yasmine Nahlawi
Syria Notes no. 11 — 22 November 2016 — view and download PDF
- Aleppo: 250,000 could die
Laila Maher Soudi, Raed Saleh, and Ahmad Tarakji - One week’s targets: Hospitals, rescuers, schools
Reports from Syria Civil Defence and the Syrian Network for Human Rights - UK should emulate US Caesar Bill
Yasmine Nahlawi - About the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act
Brittany Keroack - Airdrop aid for the city of Aleppo
Council of Free Aleppo Governorate
Syria Notes on Detainees, special issue — 27 April 2016 — View and download PDF
- Featuring letters from detainees via the Save The Rest campaign.
Syria Notes no. 10 — 17 May 2016 — view and download PDF
- Messages from Daraya Council
Daraya Council calls on the UK for humanitarian air drops - The UN and ICRC’s deadly mistakes
Mansour Omari - About Daraya Council
Background on the Local Council of Daraya City - The rise of Syria’s local councils
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami - An Afghan migrant in Iran tells of his time as a fighter in Syria
Kobra Akbari - Iranian losses in Syria
From EA WorldView’s Iran Daily blog - A failing peace process benefits Jabhat Al Nusra
Hassan Hassan - Killings back to same pace as before the ceasefire
Syrian Network for Human Rights
Syria Notes no. 9 — 27 April 2016 — view and download PDF
- Breakdown
Statements by Gareth Bayley, FCO; Salem al Meslet, HNC; Syrian Civil Defence; Human Rights Watch
- Doctors: Air drops to all besieged areas are urgently needed
UOSSM, Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations
- Letters from inside Syrian prisons
via the Save the Rest campaign
- Besieged, exiled, abandoned.
Reports from Syria Direct
- The latest civilian fatalities
Violations Documentation Center in Syria
Syria Notes no. 8 — 13 April 2016 — view and download PDF
- Daraya needs air drops
Glenys Kinnock
- We are on the verge of witnessing deaths from starvation
A letter from women in Daraya
- ‘The Royal Air Force are probably the leaders in this capability.’
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on air drops, and on protecting hospitals
- ‘So why do you keep dropping barrel bombs on us?’
Motaz Morad in besieged Daraya
- On the Fifth Anniversary
Dr Sharif K al-Ghazal, Yasmine Nahlawi,
Dr Peshang Abdulhannan, Dr Mohammad Tammo
- Monitoring the Cessation of Hostilities
Reports from SNHR, MSF, and UN
Syria Notes no. 7 — 8 March 2016 — view and download PDF
- ‘There is no ceasefire’
Briefings by GOAL, and by the Syrian British Medical Society
- What next after the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference?
Ruham Hawash, Abdelsalam Daif, Ahmad Tarakji, Maria Al Abdeh, Assaad Al Achi, Mathieu Rouquette
- Human resources in protracted crises: Syria’s medical workers
Fouad M.Fouad, Mohamad Alameddine, Adam Coutts
- Why civilian protection is a must in Syria
Yasmine Nahlawi
Syria Notes no. 6 — 3 February 2016 — view and download PDF
- We must end the shameful paralysis on Syria
Andrew Mitchell and Clare Short
- Reporting in drawings
Olivier Kugler
- London Syria Conference: Beyond Aid
Rouba Mhaissen and Anna Chernova
- For peace, act on Resolution 2254
UK Syrian groups on the Geneva talks
- Airdropping aid to starving Syrians is doable
Haid Haid
- Discussing Civilian Protection
With Yasmine Nahlawi, Dr Ayman S Jundi, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
Syria Notes no. 5 — 19 January 2016 — view and download PDF
- A moral duty to starving Syrians
Paddy Ashdown and Jo Cox
- The SBMS calls for lifting of the starvation sieges
Syrian British Medical Society
- News from Moadamiya
Moadamiya Levant media office
- News from Daraya City
Local Council of Daraya City
- Speaking with Syrians under siege
Interviews by The Syria Campaign
Syria Notes no. 4 — 5 January 2016 — view and download PDF
- Syrian Women Peacebuilders
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
- Syrian civilians killed by air attacks in 2015
Data from the Violations Documentation Center in Syria
- Dead and missing in the Mediterranean
Data from the International Organization for Migration
- Women’s perspectives on the Syria conflict
With Laila Alodaat and Raheb Alwany
- A personal reflection on engaging with Stop the War
Hala Alshami
Syria Notes no. 3 — 7 December 2015 — view and download PDF
- Now protect Syrians from Assad
Garvan Walshe
- The Humanitarian Impact of Russia’s Intervention
Notes from a presentation by aid NGO GOAL
- ‘They’
Bashar Farahat
- Challenges for Women Peacebuilders
Laila Alodaat
- ‘Peacebuilding defines our future now’
Presenting a study of women’s peace activism in Syria
- Talking Descartes with Syrian Refugee Children
Maysaloon
Syria Notes no. 2 — 23 November 2015 — view and download PDF
- Listening to Syrians
Jeff Smith
- Documenting abuses and counting the killed
Wael Aleji
- Who is killing civilians in Syria?
Data from Syrian Network For Human Rights
- The Malice of Power: Arrests in Syria as Part of a Politico-Economic Rationale
Ansar Jasim
- Is stopping barrel bombs in Syria a priority?
Haid Haid
- Before speaking
Rouba Mhaissen
Syria Notes no. 1 — 9 November 2015 — view and download PDF
- An Introduction
Jo Cox and Andrew Mitchell
- Containment of Syria failed, Europe is paying the price
Bassma Kodmani
- Listening to Refugees
Survey of Syrian refugees in Germany
- A Government of Corruption, Nepotism, and Impunity
Rashad al-Kattan
- The Crossing
Robin Yassin-Kassab on Samar Yazbek’s book, ‘The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria’
- The Struggle for Accountability
Discussing ‘A Step towards Justice: On current accountability options for crimes under international law committed in Syria’
- The Caesar photographs
Evidence of mass torture and killing in Assad’s prisons
Idlib Pocket
Holding on to the revolution in Syria’s northwest
Holding on to the revolution in Syria’s northwest
After the fall
Debating reconstruction in a broken Syria
Debating reconstruction in a broken Syria