Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013

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Decoder: What the Obama-Putin Meeting Really Means

Karen Leigh (@leighstream)  –  June 18, 2013

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin discussed Syria Monday on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland. ”Our positions do not fully coincide, but we are united by the common intention to end the violence and to stop the number of victims increasing in Syria,” Putin said. But with Obama backing the Syrian rebels and Putin the Assad regime, what will really come of talks between the two leaders?

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The Data Miners: Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP)

Karen Leigh (@leighstream)  –  June 17, 2013

The Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP) is a partnership between the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) and MapAction. It’s funded by the U.K.’s Department for International Development and is “aimed at strengthening the shared situational analysis of humanitarian responders by providing an independent analysis of the humanitarian situation of those affected by the Syrian crisis.” To do this, SNAP’s analysis review and compile data from secondary sources including journalists and the United Nations. 

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What the Gezi Park Protesters Think of Erdogan’s Syria Policy

Fabien Tepper  –  June 15, 2013

As anti-government protests in Istanbul’s Gezi Park continued into their third weekend, a Syrian Turk, a riot policeman, a Kurd and others in the disputed strip shared their views on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Syria policy and how it’s shaped their views of the Turkish government.

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What’s the State of Syria’s Opposition?

Karen Leigh (@leighstream)  –  June 15, 2013

Rex Brynen is a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal and an expert on Middle East conflict and development. He talked with Syria Deeply about the state of  Syria’ s political opposition after the unraveling of talks earlier this month in Istanbul, and after the U.S. announced that it would provide small weapons and ammunition to rebel fighters on the ground.

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The Conversation: My Harrowing Escape from Qusayr, Part I

Alison Tahmizian Meuse (@alitahmizian)  –  June 14, 2013

As part of our effort to highlight civilian stories, below is a conversation between Syria Deeply and Rifaie Tammas, a 24-year-old from Qusayr. The Lebanese militia Hezbollah, working with Syrian government troops, overran the key smuggling route between Lebanon and Homs province last week. Tammas describes the final anxious hours in his city, his chaotic evacuation and a tearful reunion with his mother after losing three close family members.

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