http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/17/syrias-cannibal-rebel-defends-himself/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/17/syrias-cannibal-rebel-defends-himself/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 11:30:35 +0000 Richard Hall http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34973 Much has been written this past week about a Syrian rebel named Khalid al-Hamad, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, and who gained notoriety after a video emerged of him appearing to eat part of a dead pro-government fighter’s lung.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/17/syrias-cannibal-rebel-defends-himself/feed/ 12 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/28/the-case-for-intervention-in-syria/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/28/the-case-for-intervention-in-syria/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:48:44 +0000 John Rentoul http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34516 In, of all places, The Independent on Sunday. Brendan Simms, professor of of the history of international relations at Cambridge University, argues for Nato intervention in Syria.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/28/the-case-for-intervention-in-syria/feed/ 6 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/15/the-two-sides-in-syria%e2%80%99s-civil-war-are-talking/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/15/the-two-sides-in-syria%e2%80%99s-civil-war-are-talking/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:48:26 +0000 Richard Hall http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34159 A new video uploaded by a group of rebel fighters in Darayya appears to show a dialogue of sorts between the Syrian regime and the opposition.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/15/the-two-sides-in-syria%e2%80%99s-civil-war-are-talking/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/08/syrians-put-non-lethal-aid-to-use/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/08/syrians-put-non-lethal-aid-to-use/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:03:33 +0000 Richard Hall http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=33139 Days after William Hague announced that Britain would be sending “non-lethal aid” to Syria’s opposition, a video has been uploaded online showing it being put to use.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/08/syrians-put-non-lethal-aid-to-use/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/18/lebanon-the-struggle-to-survive-after-escaping-syria/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/18/lebanon-the-struggle-to-survive-after-escaping-syria/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:02:04 +0000 Johanna Rogers http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=32646 In Lebanon, the despair of refugees forced by conflict to flee their homes in neighbouring Syria is all-consuming. They have found shelter wherever they can - in makeshift camps beside rubbish dumps or bedding down in disused factories - but yearn for the lives they have been forced to abandon.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/18/lebanon-the-struggle-to-survive-after-escaping-syria/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/06/artist-recreates-gustav-klimts-the-kiss-in-war-torn-syria/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/06/artist-recreates-gustav-klimts-the-kiss-in-war-torn-syria/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:25:44 +0000 Richard Hall http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=32338 Syrian-born artist Tammam Hazzam superimposed Gustav Klimt's The Kiss on a devastated, bullet-ridden building somewhere in Syria.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/06/artist-recreates-gustav-klimts-the-kiss-in-war-torn-syria/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/31/the-%e2%80%9cfree-syrian-army%e2%80%9d-are-hardly-paragons-of-virtue-in-this-dirty-war/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/31/the-%e2%80%9cfree-syrian-army%e2%80%9d-are-hardly-paragons-of-virtue-in-this-dirty-war/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:00:44 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28051 The narrative has, for months, been rather fixed: Bashar Al Assad’s army of brutal killers have committed massacres all over Syria in order to keep their dictator-master in power.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/31/the-%e2%80%9cfree-syrian-army%e2%80%9d-are-hardly-paragons-of-virtue-in-this-dirty-war/feed/ 36 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/syrian-rebels-claim-to-have-brought-down-a-fighter-jet/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/syrian-rebels-claim-to-have-brought-down-a-fighter-jet/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:57:44 +0000 Richard Hall http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27340 A video posted online today by an activist claiming to be from the north-eastern town of Mohassen, in Syria's Deir al-Zor province, appears to show the downing of a Syrian fighter jet.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/syrian-rebels-claim-to-have-brought-down-a-fighter-jet/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/london-bridge-teamgb-beachvolleyball-aleppo-bale/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/london-bridge-teamgb-beachvolleyball-aleppo-bale/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:24:49 +0000 Ellen E Jones http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26901 What's trending and why?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/london-bridge-teamgb-beachvolleyball-aleppo-bale/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/26/can-the-olympics-save-syria/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/26/can-the-olympics-save-syria/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:00:20 +0000 Phil Mulligan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26811 What hope is there for the citizens of Syria? Every day brings news of new atrocities, with the lines of legitimacy increasingly blurred as the state and non-state hydras battle in a cycle of attacks, reprisals, counter-attacks and counter-reprisals. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/26/can-the-olympics-save-syria/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/25/azad-al-barazi-swimming-for-assad/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/25/azad-al-barazi-swimming-for-assad/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:13:16 +0000 Emily Dugan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26820 A Californian surfer was among the more unlikely athletes being sworn into Syria’s team at the Olympic Village today. Swimmer Azad Al-Barazi is more accustomed to the sunny beaches of Santa Monica than the warring streets of Damascus, but he was one of 10 athletes at the country’s official welcoming ceremony this afternoon.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/25/azad-al-barazi-swimming-for-assad/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:00:26 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25464 The bodies were no longer there. Nonetheless pieces of brain, pools of blood and other human remains indicated that a massacre had taken place in the village of Qubair in Syria’s brutalised Hama province. The victims likely included children, according to eyewitness reports. The outrage was preceded by acts of venality and civilian slaughter in [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/feed/ 16