Aleppo

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Syria’s President Bashar Assad is sworn for his third, seven-year term, in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
“But we the people are born from the womb of the revolution, the sons of the revolution, and the servants of the Syrian revolution,” ~ Brigadier Fouad Soueid of the Free Syrian Police

*In the old city of Homs, June 2014, speaking with Zeinat and Aymen al-Akhras who endured years of hell under the rule of militant factions. In May 2014, an agreement saw the reportedly 1,200 militants bussed out of Homs (as recently happened in Aleppo), bringing peace to the neighbourhoods they’d occupied and terrorized. Excerpt from my article on this visit and interviewing residents of the old city of Homs: “I dropped to 34 kilos. Aymen told me to weigh myself. I got on the scale and said, ‘What’s 34 kilos?’. A ten-year-old weighs more than that! And Aymen was 43 kilos.

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire

Pierre Le Corf as Papa Noel in Aleppo December 2016, just after liberation of East Aleppo from Nusra Front-led occupation by the SAA and allies. 
By Pierre Le Corf
Mr President,

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During last week’s SUNDAY WIRE show we spoke with independent journalist Eva Bartlett in a stunning conversation about her experiences reporting from on the ground inside Syria.

My colleague Alex Christoforou has reported on the US Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s forthright response to US media attempts to perpetuate the myth of President Assad’s sole responsibility for the Syrian war.

Screenshot from CNN interview with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard after her return from Syria, confirming what 21WIRE and others have said for the last three years: “There are NO moderates (rebels)” in Syria.
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The Turkish journalist Fehim Taştekin has provided Al Monitor with a highly interesting follow up to his previous report on the situation Aleppo, which cast doubt on some of the claims the Western media made during the fighting there.