Some doctors in Hay El-Ramel have testified about the general sanitary conditions and the suffering of the injured and paramedics in the neighborhood at which 20 people were shot dead by security forces last Sunday. On Friday, June 6, a peaceful demonstration in the neighborhood was met with heavy gunfire causing the death and injury [...]

Eyewitness from Jisr Al-Shoghour: They cleaned the streets of the blood after each massacre they committed, but who can clean the smell of death? Mohammad did not know that by staying home in Jisr Al-Shoghour he was going to witness such murders, terror and blood. Until he was able to run away few days after [...]

This is a testimony of one of the newly released detainees in Banyas. We tell it exactly as we heard it: After the security forces and the Shabiha (regime’s armed thugs) stormed the town “Al-Marqab”, and during their raid on houses, I ran to the forest and I hid between the bushes as many of [...]

The coastal city of Banias is one of the first cities who had huge demonstrations in Syria. Families including men, women, youth and children participated in these demonstrations. We do not exaggerate if we say that Banias’s demonstrations were among the most organized, persistent, and creative in several aspects: newscoverage, photos and video clips and [...]

There are real concerns about the fate of the young activist Anas Alshughri, who managed to hide from the public view after the raids by the regime into his home town Banyas and his arrest on April 14 2011. Anas was born in 1988, in a village called al-Baida, near to Banyas. He is a [...]