Robin Yassin-Kassab

Robin Yassin-Kassab

Yassin-Kassab

Robin Yassin-Kassab co-wrote Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War and is the English editor at www.isisprisons.org

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30 April, 2025

In the face of bloody chaos, all of Syria's peoples must work towards real citizenship and not descend into sectarian splintering, says Robin Yassin-Kassab.

10 March, 2025

A free Syria is a blessing after Assad's fall. And though the future is uncertain, Syrians are determined to shape their destiny, says Robin Yassin-Kassab.

10 December, 2024

Comment: The peaceful ideal Zarif describes for the region amounts to misleading rhetoric that ignores the facts on the ground, writes Robin Yassin-Kassab.

21 March, 2018

Comment: Syria's massacres are not an accident. Local, regional and global powers created the tragedy. And Arab and international public opinion has contributed, through apathy and silence, writes Robin Yassin-Kassab

24 February, 2018

Comment: The Syrian opposition needs Turkey's support, and has had it, but it should not back Ankara's occupation of Afrin, writes Robin Yassin-Kassab.

25 January, 2018

Comment: This is not the first time the demonisation of 'threatening' communities has prepared the way for slaughter, writes Robin Yassin-Kassab.

19 December, 2017

Comment: Syria's war resembles a foreign occupation more than a system of domestic repression, writes Robin Yassin-Kassab.

08 September, 2016

Comment: Robin Yassin-Kassab takes a closer look at the alliances on the Syrian battlefield, as ethnic-nationalist conflict between Turks, Kurds and Arabs threatens to spiral out of control.

31 August, 2016

Faced with a barbaric and sadistic enemy, Daraya responded with dignified resistance. The world should hang its head in shame at its fall to Syria's regime, writes Robin Yassin-Kassab.

27 August, 2016