Razan Saffour
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I belong to the Syrian Revolution | Senior Comms Consultant | 🇵🇸
Joined March 2010
We wrote a letter of solidarity: from Syrians united in the revolutionary struggle against the Assad regime, to the Palestinian people in Gaza, West Bank & historic Palestine, in their fight for liberation from Israeli colonisation, occupation & apartheid.
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This interview is so good because the interviewee is not Palestinian. Therefore the interviewer did not question her humanity. She was not asked to condemn. She has no family on ground yet was dealt more compassionately than every grieving/impacted Palestinian over . last 30 days.
This is incredibly insightful about how desperate life in Gaza is right now:
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Home, for the first time ever in my life. 01.01.2025, Aleppo, Free Syria. ♥️
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may the new year bring the downfall of every authoritarian dictatorship, every occupation and every settler colonial regime.
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My whole entire heart. A journalist in Idlib asks Syrians if they would welcome Gazans into their homes:. “I would give them my house and live in a tent”. “But you’re also displaced”. “And what about it. Our wound is the same. What’s happening to us is happening to them”.
شاهد ردة فعل أهالي إدلب على ما تتعرض له مدينة #غزة المحاصرة.#استطلاع_رأي .#راديو_الثورة
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Actually, Nasrallah did this. He starved thousands of Syrians, killed thousands of civilians, his men raped our women before killing them, killed our journalists, LIVESTREAMED MASSACRES ON THEIR CHANNELS then gloated about it in speeches. You just don't have a shred of humanity.
Remember when Nasrallah blew up universities, left babies to die in incubators, starved thousands of people, targeted journalists and their families for assassination, killed little girls and ambulance drivers rescuing them, and defended rape and torture?.I don't remember either.
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I can’t process anything right now. My sister ran into the room shouting ‘Razan wake up Damascus is free’ and I’m shaking, fumbling, crying over the scenes of Sednaya prisoners and Damascus’s mosques. But for the sake of 13 years on this wretched app. For the 44 years of exile,.
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Today is the first Assad-free Friday in Syria since March 1971.
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Bashar Assad massacred a million of us. He killed my uncle, my aunt, my cousins — he gassed my other aunt, and rendered half my family refugees scattered across the globe. His father tortured my father in prison, broke his back and attempted his assassination in foreign land.
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I feel sick to my core. Assad built prisons beneath the entire city. Beneath hospitals. Beneath universities. Beneath parks. Parallel universes. Those living above ground in fear, not knowing immediately beneath them are prisoners being tortured. Dystopian. I feel so sick.
عامل سجون تحت المستشفيات وسجون تحت الجامعات وسجون تحت الحدائق باني مدينة كاملة تحت الارض والناس مابتعرف عنها شي تخيل كم طالب جامعي كان يدرس بالجامعة وهو مابيعرف تحته في مساجين ولسه القصص الافظع جاي.
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so there you have it folks
If you're pro-Palestine and anti-Assad you are unequivocally pro-Israel. Either go get a book about geopolitics, read up on the history of Resistance movements in the region and their ties to Syria & read about all the scandals of Syrian revolution. It's been +10yrs; no excuses.
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Long-time Syrian here who actually has been working in Syrian aid and medical sectors for over a decade. Sanctions are NOT what’s stopping aid from reaching Syrians in need, Russia’s veto of humanitarian corridors forcing closure & Assad withholding aid and bombing Syrians are.
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Never ever ever forget Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, Rania Khalek, David Miller, Sana Saeed, Asa Wistansley, Ali Abunimah, Sawsan Abulhawa, Richard Medhurst, Craig Murray, Abby Martin, that Kate woman who’s name I’ve forgotten - and EVERYONE ELSE who attempted to erase our.
let's be clear aaron maté spent yrs and yrs being an assad propagandist and we are not about to just forget and move on.
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They allow the non-Palestinian to speak for the Palestinian — but when the Palestinian speaks for themself they are interrogated — stripped from their humanity in front of the world. As they mourn their families. As they attempt to survive a genocide.
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this song is so cross-war, it’s heartbreaking & inspirational. written by a Libyan revolutionary in fight against Gaddafi, it became a song Syrians sang in darkest of times, now reaching Palestine - encapsulating the resistance of our people in the fight against despotic regimes.
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Assad is secular. His father banned women from wearing the hijab when teaching in schools and working in public places. In 1980-1981, a reign of terror was imposed on Syrian women when authorities would go around violently pulling the scarves off of women’s heads in the street.
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2 weeks ago ISIS executed Syrian Muslim journalist Bassam Raies. The world didn't give a damn. #Syria
http://t.co/Obms6gTiuK.
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we’re back with the bigoted no-context veiled women vs. unveiled women from different decades, as an indicator of ‘progress’ in any one society. when will this stupid internet trend perpetuated mostly by men with zero historical/political credibility die already?.
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finding out that my 73 year old father goes to the Palestine protests every Saturday in London alone, faces a whole load of harassment, walks & stands despite his age & illness, comes back home having endured it all without much of a word. this generation of selfless humans 🥹♥️.
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Syria was televised through and through — we showed you all every single second of our destruction. We just weren’t deemed civilised enough to be saved.
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this is what the Syrian regime is spending money on: bombing Syrian civilians on the fourth day of Eid in non-regime held areas, instead of helping Syrian citizens *in regime held areas* where coronavirus is spreading fast and dangerously, to protect themselves.
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A huge fire in a Syrian city refugee camp in Arsal, Lebanon. A number of families who had made homes out of tents in these camps now have no home, no shelter and nothing left, in the middle of Ramadan.
حريق ضخم يلتهم أحد مخيمات اللاجئين السوريين في بلدة عرسال اللبنانية الان، والعديد من الإصابات… اللهم سلم اهلنا
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Mazen Hamada’s corpse will forever haunt me. I didn’t want to see the image and now it won’t leave my mind. There are no words to describe the monstrosity. Ya rab ya Mazen how the world failed you. No justice until Assad and all of them are held accountable. Every last one.
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Hey Briahna, Syrian here — don’t invoke our children when you platform those who advocate for our genocide & don’t condemn the regime killing us. Since 2011, the Assad regime & allies Russia/Iran have killed over 29,000 Syrian children. And that’s the conservative estimate.
@DeathAndSnaxes No, if we’re doing humanitarianism, it should be based on need. Not the fact that the west is more charmed by Ukrainian children than Syrian or Haitian ones.
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And even - even when absent from the conversation, the Palestinian is still perceived as a savage. Cooper's questions attempt to paint the Palestinians as savages as they're being massacred in a concentration camp.
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“Syria before Islamisation”.
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No time for anyone messaging me with ‘what’s next? you have to learn from history’. For decades we weren’t allowed to live in the present. We weren’t allowed to feel joy. We weren’t allowed to just exist for a moment freely. Right now - with all our concerns and fears - with NO.
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600,000 martyrs. The unofficial account at 1 million. From the 1970s to today. Hundreds of thousands of lives sacrificed. Hundreds of thousands of souls taken by the Assad regime. And thousands more passed away in قهر waiting for this moment. Today is for them.
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Yo, @YourAnonCentral went in! Have been, and will always be, grateful for Anonymous for standing by us in our struggle since day. 💙.
How to maintain integrity on Twitter:.Run the 'Assad Litmus Test'. -Go to Search.-Type "@[persons handle], Assad" . If the results show support for the Assad dictatorship or opposition to the anti-corruption revolution, then that person is a fascist.
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The US is expected to co-host the World Cup in 2026. This should be the image for every article written about it from now, alongside every single image we’ve seen from the US-financed genocide on Gaza.
"Qatar shouldn't hold the world cup because of its women and human rights violations"
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His entire family murdered at once. His mother, father, siblings — killed by Assad in an instant, in Idlib — Syria. God damn you and your geopolitics. Every person who turns a blind eye to this murderous regime in the name of faux resistance. God damn your selective humanity.
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I entered a mosque today in London. There was a circle of elder women sat reading Qur’an together, one began making a prayer to which a woman said ‘pray my son is released from Assad’s detention’ and then another said ‘and for my brother & family who are stuck in Sudan.’. ❤️🩹.
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This is the first time in 14 years the New Year in Syria doesn’t begin with bombing, massacres and death by Assad, Iran and Russia.
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In most cities in Syria electricity comes at a max of 2 hours a day, and water is weak. People live on solar panels and candles. And in this freezing cold? Diesel fuelled heaters from like the 1940s. But sure - let’s talk about handshakes: the priorities of the west.
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"The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the.
Dictator Bashar al-Assad meets Mohammed bin Salman.
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There’s going to be a lot of whitewashing, a lot of heinous policing, a lot of tone deaf disgusting accusations against his victims. Hezbollah murdered, raped and displaced Syrians. We will never forget & never forgive. Nasrallah is in hell, and his killers will also be in hell.
For those who claim that Hezbollah was not fighting in Syria and killing Syrians, here is Nasrallah himself telling you the truth.
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My phone is blowing up with Syrians celebrating, congratulating one another, crying, rejoicing, fearful - hoping this won’t be short lived. But everyone is celebrating. I was just in Fatih in Istanbul, the Syrian places have Sarout blaring from their speakers, people are smiling.
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One more 🩷. My father returned to Homs for the first time since 1981. After surviving the most brutal of torture in Assad’s prisons between 1979-1980, he established the Syrian Human Rights Committee and was at the forefront of exposing the regime’s crimes for decades.
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اليوم إمي رجعت على حلب لأول مرة بحياتها منذ ١٩٨٠. أول مرة بحياتها على سورية مع أبي، أول مرة بعد ما جدي وجدتي توفوا، أول مرة وأغلب أقربائها يا مستشهدين، يا متوفين، يا متغربين. أول مرة من ٤٤ سنة. أول شي عملته بعد العزايم - أخدتنا تورجينا بيتها القديم ومكان دكانة جدي بسوق الخيش.
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I think today was the first *official* day of no Russian, Iranian or SAA bombing/airstrikes on any Syrian town or village since 2015?.
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He was also a mass murderer.
Muammar Gaddafi had a practice of wearing African inspired clothes with the pictures of African leaders, the map of Africa and flags of African countries. #MythAndFact
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My parents are ASLEEP in another country. They DON’T YET KNOW - I NEED SOMEONE TO WAKE THEM UP 😭.
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.@ZelenskyyUa speaking to us live at @DohaForum, saying justice has failed not just Ukrainians, but Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis and Somalis.
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Landing in Doha; my older sister picks me up from the airport and for the first time ever - we’re having a conversation about where we think we’re going to live in Syria. We’re having an actual conversation about settling, about who will be with our parents when they go back. My.
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On this day 11 years ago, Hamza Al-Khatib’s body was delivered to his parents — swollen and bruised, covered in burn marks, gunshot wounds and severed genitals. Hamza was 13 when he was tortured to death by the Assad regime. He would have been 25 this year, had he lived.
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A tribute to the martyr Khaled Nabhan and all of Gaza from Al-3asi square yesterday in Hama, Syria. Poster reads: “Gaza, oh soul of our soul.” ♥️🇵🇸. Credit: Nour Alwan
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Iran is literally occupying Syria, has committed countless massacres against Syrians over the last 13 years and is targeting civilian areas in Idlib right now with missiles.
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300,000. The official estimate a few days ago was 130,000. Everything about Syria under Assad had been reduced to conservative estimates because verifying was made so difficult. But 300,000 detainees? My lord.
Syrian Civil Defense:. Number of detainees in Syrian prisons exceeds 300,000 people.
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Your reminder that in response to a report on a Syrian father making gas masks to protect his family from possible chemical attacks, Max Blumthenal posted this mocking our plight and those most vulnerable to being choked to death by Assad. Remind you of something more recent?
In Syria's Idlib, one desperate father is making gas masks from paper cups to protect his family against possible chemical attacks.
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Messaging my elderly aunt in Aleppo who’s 70, lived through her homes being bombed, being displaced, being detained and tortured, having gas-filled cylinders dropped over her house — ‘we’re okay 7abibti’, she tells me, as her voices quavers. What more do they have to endure :(.
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Prayers for Sudan as war and genocide rage on almost a year on — an estimated 50,000 people killed, 18 million facing acute food insecurity & ~10 million displaced. One of worst humanitarian crises in recent memory yet provokes so little mention in non-Sudanese public discourse.
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Love when something cultural exposes the ignorance of those 'informing' the news. There is more than one shade in the world. In Turkey/near cultures, the elderly give money to children when they see them. Erdogan is giving money to children here, whilst shaking hands of adults.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan handed out money to supporters outside the polling station where he cast his ballot in the runoff election
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WILD that @georgegalloway who is a vile Assadist has reposted this footage from Syria — because he thinks it’s from Gaza — of a White Helmets rescuer who was killed by a Russian airstrike; the SAME civil defence he has spent a decade defaming and propagandising against.
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Returning to Syria after forced exile 50 years later— to embrace his 100 year old mother. 50 years. This is a miracle. A miracle by all means. And beneath all of this, this was Assad’s Syria.
بعد 50 عامًا من الغياب القسري، عاد عبد اللطيف الزعيم إلى حماة ليحتضن والدته التي تجاوزت الـ100 عام. هُجّر ظلمًا، وفقد شقيقه عبد الحفيظ تحت التعذيب، واختطف النظام شقيقه الآخر. اليوم، تطوي سوريا صفحات الألم، ��تعيد الدفء إلى القلوب التي أرهقها الفقد والبُعد.
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they deserve the whole world ♥️.
An emotional moment as the White Helmets arrive in the Ummayad mosque in Damascus for the first Friday prayers since the fall of Bashar Al Assad:
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There are reports of political prisoner being liberated by the rebel groups in Hama who’ve been held in prison since the 1980s. 40+ years. They must in their 60s and upwards. Can you imagine? I cannot. My heart cannot.
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my family arrived to istanbul after a 21 hour journey on the road, and two days of being on the streets with no access to anything. they arrived in the clothes they grabbed when fleeing the house. scars. blood. wounds. too scared to shower. too scared to move. and so much trauma.
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I call my parents at 2am for emotional support after a particularly gruelling day. My mother listens and helps me unpack, my father then lifts the load with: . “We can’t save the world, Razan. But we can tell the truth. And we can do so gently.”.
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Enough of this pretending to be balanced and concerned fear-mongering. Enough of the closeted Islamophobia. At this rate ideologues and propagandists are trying to find a reason to sow this orientalist irrational fear of the bearded brown Muslim. You’ll find a proper reason soon.
I spoke today to a prominent Christian leader in Aleppo. He told me situation is okay. No intimidations by new rulers. One incident about selling alcohol, which was solved between the sides. But from the pre-war 300,000 Christians in Aleppo only 30,000 now are left, he told me.
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Syrian here. Yes, this is Syria. Yes, SOME Palestine advocates justify murder in Syria, just as SOME anti-Assad advocates justify genocide in Gaza. Our causes are not for exploitation. Free Syrians stand with Palestinians in struggle against settler colonial project of Israel.
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yes and they have been doing exactly the same in Syria, since 2015.
Would Russia be allowed to do what Israel is doing?.
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Look at all these women being liberated from Assad’s dungeons. All these women who were in Assad’s prisons. Look at all these women who were missing for months maybe years frantically escape the moment the prison doors are opened. No words will ever come close to describing this.
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Motaz and his friend’s drone got hacked by the IOF. Their response? Laughter. Shouting at it jokingly to come back: ‘walek ta3ali’. This is the Palestinian resilience they despise so much, never being able to crush their spirit.
Israeli army intercepted our drone and moved to behind the Israeli line .We were trying to film and show the destruction they made to the East of Khan Younis
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literally zero indication they’re HTS. HTS operated strictly within Syrian borders and never exported their operations outside + no longer operate as a ‘faction’ - as have become fully embedded within the state under MOD command. HTS are also Syrian and lads here are speaking a.
🚨 TERROR THREAT IN FRANCE: HTS MILITANTS TARGET NOTRE DAME 🚨. In a chilling ultimatum, HTS militants (Syrian opposition) have threatened to burn Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris unless a convicted stab attacker is released from French custody. 💥 A Warning of Sleeper Cells:. With
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The National Arab American Convention taking place in Dearborn this weekend has made it very clear that it doesn't see Syrians as deserving of life and basic rights - given the platforming of speakers, including Assadist Jill Stein.
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my uncle, 78, visited Aleppo for the first time since ~1979. he sent my mother a message telling her how he felt standing at my grandfather’s grave for the first time. my grandfather passed away in 1984, in his death waited 40 years for his grave to be prayed on by his eldest son.
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I don’t like this ‘let Syrians be happy’ discourse cause it implies masakeen we should be afforded this happiness despite it maybe not being great. NO. This is the GREATEST thing that has happened in the history of Syria and the ARAB REGION since 2012. We are overjoyed because.
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@IOE_London @taylorswift13 @ucl Hey UCL, below is a list of Palestinian and Syrian poets & authors who were either killed or tortured brutally by Israel/or Syrian regime respectively. - Refaat Alareer (your own alumni! - Palestinian).- Walid Daqqa (Palestinian).- Dareen Tatour (Palestinian).- Tal Al Mallouhi.
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“The people that committed the crimes against our brothers and sisters in Syria are not our allies.”. From the latest @thinking_muslim podcast, in conversation with Dr. @omarsuleiman504. Hosted by @jalalayn, an incredibly grounding episode worth a listen:
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Assad the father killed my uncle and tortured my pregnant aunt until she miscarried. And Assad the son destroyed the homes of everyone remaining.
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Hama. The city that gave 40,000 souls in 1982. The city that was besieged, destroyed, entire lineages wiped out in the space of 3 weeks by Assad’s father. Hama the city that broke us all, that Syrians have been asking for forgiveness from since 2011. Our Hama is being liberated.
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Asma Assad should have her British citizenship stripped (long overdue) and should be tried for being an accomplice in crimes against humanity, incitement to commit atrocities, money laundering from the Syrian people and corruption at the very least.
The British wife of Syria’s deposed president Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, has filed for divorce after expressing dissatisfaction with her life in Moscow.
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My contribution today for @AJEnglish on the situation in Syria, and my family’s reaction. What I forgot to add, and perhaps most crucial to my aunt’s experience - is that there is electricity now in Aleppo. For years under regime control she’s been living with 2 hours of
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But what’s rehabilitating a war criminal to the Arab League? Half of whom are complicit in war crimes themselves? In normalising with violent occupiers? Who detain their own people? And kill their own citizens?. What is a little bit of war crime between “brotherly states”?.
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Rania spent over a decade cheering on our massacres, defaming our first defenders. Her and her disgusting Grazyzone, BTS, Mint Press, EI, Redstream and RT friends. Rania who stood so heinously against us is attempting to backtrack now. Fuck you Rania. And every propagandist who.
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Putin’s arrest warrant is great news but really wondering - do Syrians not exist? Did his 8 year of pummelling our lands, bombing our hospitals and killing our children account for absolutely nothing to consider him a war criminal, prior to his full scale invasion of Ukraine?.
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absolutely surreal speaking live on an international broadcast with this strap beneath
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Yes, Syria — countless times. From 2011-2013, almost every large funeral procession turned into a protest and ended in mourners being attacked, shot and killed by Assad regime’s army. People started the day alive as mourners demanding justice and ended up as the mourned.
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I'm really extremely tired of white people and non-Syrians who have never been subjected to an ounce of what Syrians have been subjected to in Turkey, schooling us on things, so here goes a thread to help you identity you obnoxious splaining:.
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the final messages from people in Gaza remind me eerily of the last messages from our families in Aleppo before the fall of Aleppo. everything was besieged, blockaded, bombarded, and people did everything to let the world know what is happening — only to fall on deaf ears.
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I have grandparents who died with a break in their heart for being deprived of their children, and uncles who died with broken hearts being deprived of their land. We have so much حسرة so much يأس travelling through generations. But what’s this to an Arab League?.
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In Islamic tradition, today is the day God saved Moses and the Israelites from pharaoh. Pray we too be saved, from modern day pharaohs and the pharaoh within us.
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My first live interview on Syria in a post-Assad context. Still can’t believe the words coming out of my mouth.
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footnote in recent history: bassem youssef literally danced and sang on TV as 1000 protestors were massacred by Sisi in Egypt during the Rabaa massacre/2013. he never apologised or backtracked. he is not a hero. he is a horrible man with seemingly selective humanity.
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Brace yourself for the woke journo hottakes who will defend Soleimani because ‘American imperialism’, conveniently forgetting, if they even knew, the blood of Syrians and Iraqis on his hands.
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This day 9 years ago, over 400 Syrians were killed execution style by the Assad regime in the village of Bayda & city of Banias. Entire families were shot after being tortured. Children were killed. Civilians were stabbed with knives. Imagine the sadism. And still, Assad rules.
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horrifying that despite the scale of destruction/casualties in Syria during this earthquake, instead of actually helping people, the narrative has been completely manipulated by Assadists making this about Assad, and not the victims. sanctions are not shutting relief efforts.
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Arabs and Turks in their thousands tonight in Istanbul, outside the Israeli consulate. For Sheikh Jarrah. For Gaza. For Palestine.
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a most beautiful message received today with this image from Kashmir. may every tyranny, from Assadist, to Hindutva, to Zionist fall. may all our lands and people be free ♥️
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Hamas officially allying with the Assad regime should fuel anger in our Muslim and Arab communities, surging them to support Syrians in their communities more than ever. Where’s the resistance in a ‘resistance’ group that shamelessly prides itself with the support of a murderer?.
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What’s hundreds of thousands languishing in prisons to the Arab League? What’s millions murdered in cold blood to the Arab League? Our families who still live under bombs? Who were bombed in the wake of the earthquake?.
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the chilling silence from so many Gazan accounts after being cut off from the world. ya Allah ya rab.
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when we speak henceforth of terrorism, let it be known that this is what European states did to our young men. let it be KNOWN the terror they inflicted upon them by shooting at them at sea, dehumanising then & forcing them to strip naked after denying them a life of dignity.
Greek security forces force the refugees who crossed the border to return naked into Turkish territory.#Syria.#Turkey .#greece.by: Belal Khaled
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Sednaya prison, known as a human slaughterhouse. Tens of thousands at least have been executed here since 2008, and more viciously since 2011. Sednaya where my uncle was tortured, where my father received desperate phone calls from in 2008 during the massacre. Sednaya which so.
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When Syrians were being gassed to death by Assad:. My aunt was being pulled out of the rubble of her own home by the White Helmets. James was training first responders. Oz was spreading news to media outlets. Max was mocking our dead by posting a bag over his head on Twitter.
@KitKlarenberg @ClarkeMicah Exclusive photos of regime change sociopath Oz being removed from the premises
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polish man saves london with a whale tusk. we live in absurd times which call for exceptional heroism 💛.
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