Idlib has become the stage for a contest to preserve Syria’s revolution. Several weeks of Friday demonstrations across the Idlib pocket have presented a revival of civil activism. But as this popular revival faces threats both from Assad and his international allies, and from jihadist armed groups, once again, Syrians’ fate rests on decisions taken in foreign capitals.
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Contents
- Death and life in the Idlib pocket
A reprieve for people in Idlib and western Aleppo. - Civil resistance to extremism in Idlib
By Julia Taleb. - Fears as UK cuts Free Police funds
By Mohammad Abdulssattar Ibrahim and Barrett Limoges. - Command responsibility
Ambassador Karen Pierce names names at the UN Security Council. - Notes on accountability
Breaking Ghouta; Siege Watch; Universal jurisdiction; ‘Caesar’ Act; Sanctions and Russia; Tracking aircraft. - The bombing of Hass hospital
By Eliot Higgins. - ‘She has big dreams’
Video journalism by Liberated T. - Coping with displacement
By Heba Ajami.
Cover photograph: ‘No matter how many of us you kill, Bashar, we will go on,’ said Syrian-American activist Rania Kisar in a video message from a demonstration in Ma’arat al-Nu’man, Idlib, 14 September 2018.
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Command responsibility
Brian Slocock
Brian Slocock
The bombing of Hass hospital
Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins
Coping with displacement
Heba Ajami
Heba Ajami
After the fall
Debating reconstruction in a broken Syria
Debating reconstruction in a broken Syria
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28 March 2018
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