Syria

Aleppo: Starved, Bombed, Gassed, Broken but not Defeated The regime has finally broken the rebel defences in besieged eastern Aleppo and has retaken a third of the territory. Up to 20,000 people have fled from rebel held areas as the ...

Many of us witnessed and expressed our outrage over the tripling of our university tuition fees. We felt our right to higher education was being taken away from us. We believed opportunity was becoming something solely for those from a ...

The cruel joke of Russia & Assad’s ‘humanitarian’ ceasefire The Russians and the Syrian regime have supposedly agreed to a ‘humanitarian pause’ and opened ‘humanitarian corridors’ in Aleppo. The big question is – was this a genuine humanitarian gesture? The answer, ...

Refugees welcome here! The Guardian newspaper recently ran a story about the Reverend Sally Smith,[i] a vicar from Stoke-on-Trent, hailing her as a present-day Good Samaritan. The vicar is indeed worthy of such praise as she has wholeheartedly welcomed refugees ...

  Living in a ‘civilised’ world we have grown used to international laws that govern and ensure the ‘rule of law’ is upheld and maintained.  Human life is sacrosanct and human rights are paramount. The International Criminal Court was established in ...

The Turning Point of the Great Battle of Aleppo To Allāh belongs all praise. Though the size of Syria’s trauma leaves little for one to celebrate, Allāh imparts moments of victory, moments of joy, moments of relief to strengthen our ...

Under US-led aerial bombardment, Iraqi Government forces and pro-Iranian militia known as the ‘National Mobilisation Front’ continue their assault on Sunni neighbourhoods. Although disturbed and aggravated, many Muslims around the world are struggling to understand exactly what is happening. On ...

#AleppoIsBurning – A Genocide, a Watchful Lord and an Appointed Time Over 200 Syrian civilians were murdered in the span of 48 hours in the latest escalating onslaught on Aleppo. So it continues, bolstered in part by an active coalition ...

The Muhammad Emwazi I met in 2009 was indeed a polite and friendly young man as the author Robert Verkaik and many others attest to, but by the summer of 2014 he was executing innocent Muslims and non-Muslims in the ...

For as long as people have resided on Earth, migration has been a major driver for historical change.[i] Migration towards the ‘developed’ world was a growing trend in the 20th century,[ii] and many receiving communities became increasingly alarmed. Then came the wars in ...