The government of Bahrain’s inability to implement credible reforms have led to a situation where they have to manage dissent through an increased security crackdown and escalating violence
Among the difficulties faced by Syrians in safeguarding their revolution, internal disputes within the Free Syrian Army rebel groups remain the most serious.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he he would back an offer of safe passage out of Syria for President Bashar al-Assad if it would end the bloodshed in the country’s ongoing civil war.
During the chaos of war, rape is used by the powerful as a deliberate strategy to destroy any opposition. Historically, the “excesses of war” were even regarded as inevitable; the rape of women and pillaging of towns simply perks of victory but the law has changed.
Syrians in Lebanon are increasingly coming under attack as lingering anti-Syrian sentiment intensifies amid the current conflict next door.