Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل

من سوريا الحرة🇸🇾🇬🇧 VP, AI Networking @GlobalNTT. former @nokia. Human rights. Interest topics: history, technology, anthropology and cosmo

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

تلسكوب جيمس ويب الفضائي أرسل لنا اليوم أول صورة سيلفي له على بعد مليون ونصف كم عن الأرض. نشرت فيديو عن هذه الرحلة مؤخراً ويسعدني مشاهدتكم وآراؤكم #JWST https://t.co/WYrq1GRxaL

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

@TRobinsonNewEra Ah so the problem is with proselytising faiths?. Let’s list them all: 1- Christianity, 2- Islam

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

This is absolutely ridiculous. The spineless UK government has to re-evaluate these stupid actions

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

I’ve been banned from the UK. I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!

[Taha Bali @tahabito]

إضافة للتحديات الداخلية والتاريخية المعروفة، مطلوب من التجربة السورية أن تصل إلى الديموقراطية بظرف إقليمي ودولي غير مرحب بالفكرة وبدون استثناءات تذكر:

دول خليجية ملكية مطلقة بأغلبها والأفضل ديموقراطيا بينها (الكويت) تراجع مؤخراً لدرجة شن حملة تطهير عرقي بيروقراطية؛ تركيا المنزلقة نحو السلطوية باضطراد عبر أكثر من عقد من الزمان؛ لبنان والعراق أنظمة المحاصصة الطائفية المختطفة إيرانيا؛ إسرائيل الديموقراطية المشوهة التي تزداد تشوهاً؛ مصر وتونس دول الربيع العربي التي انقلبت ديموقراطيتها الوليدة نحو الدكتاتورية دون خط رجعة واضح؛ موجة انقلابات عسكرية إفريقية من المحيط الهندي إلى الأطلسي، إلخ، وكل هذا على خلفية تقهقر الغرب الديموقراطي نحو احترام أقل وأقل للمؤسسات والقيم الليبرالية.

طريق وعرة وصاعدة بانحدار شديد.

[Ruba Rajab @Ruba_Rajab86]

إلى المعنيين في وزارة الأوقاف،
مضى على فرض هذا السياج الغريب عن طابع المسجد الأموي أكثر من عام حتى الآن!
والسؤال هنا، هل أنتم أشد حرصا على الدين من عمر بن عبد العزيز وهو خامس الخلفاء الراشدين ولم يفرض سياجا فاصلا في عهده؟!
أم أكثر اهتماما من صلاح الدين الأيوبي محرر القدس؟
أم أعلم من ابن عساكر والغزالي وغيرهم ممن ارتادوا الأموي بانتظام ولم يستنكروا هيئته دون سياج؟
@SyMOfE
#وزارة_الأوقاف_السورية

[𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 @ColdBrief]

Syria today faces two simultaneous pressures. On one side: Iran - diminished but still seeking re-entry points. On the other: Israel - conducting airstrikes, occupying Syrian land, supporting separatist movements, and framing Damascus rebuilding its own military as a threat to Israeli security.
Both pressures are real. Only one is self-defeating!
When Al-Sharaa's forces dismantled the Assad regime in December 2024, they accomplished what Israel had spent years trying to achieve through airstrikes: they expelled Iran from Syrian territory. The weapons corridors, the missile stockpiles, the advisory presence - gone. The single most consequential anti-Iran strategic development in a decade was delivered by Damascus, not Tel Aviv!!!
Israel's response was to bomb Syrian infrastructure and occupy more Syrian land.
The Syrian Arab Army is now rebuilding its air defense. Israeli media call this a threat. But the framing collapses under basic scrutiny. Syria has been subjected to Iranian drone and missile operations for years. Rebuilding air defense capacity is not aggression - it is elementary sovereignty. Every state has the right to defend its airspace. That right does not expire because a neighbor finds it inconvenient.
The real question is why there is no security agreement between Israel and Syria.
Al-Sharaa's government has declared - clearly and on the record - that it seeks peace based on sovereignty, the return of displaced persons, and restoration of Syrian territorial rights. Damascus has not initiated hostilities. It has declared political intent while being bombed, occupied, and subjected to interference in its internal affairs.
What is Israel doing in the Quneitra Governorate? Arrests. Land leveling. Displacement of Syrian civilians in territory occupied after December 8. These are not defensive operations. They are colonial practices - producing exactly the grievances that make future peace harder and future conflict more likely.
Syria and Israel share a primary threat: Iran and its proxies. Al-Sharaa already demonstrated he will not be an Iranian instrument. That is the foundation for a security relationship - not full normalization tomorrow, but a framework, a channel, a precursor to peace.
Instead, Israel is squandering that opening.
Syrian military reconstruction is happening regardless of Israeli strikes. What Israel can shape is the diplomatic context around it. A security agreement provides legitimate transparency mechanisms. Continued military pressure provides nothing - except a Syria with no incentive to cooperate and every reason to eventually seek new patrons.
Syria has declared its intention for peace. It is Israel that has not answered!

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

Encouraging indeed. We should aspire to keep improving press freedom. One of the biggest sign of development in any nation

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

Encouraging.

#Syria jumped 36 places on the Press Freedom Index in the past year — the single biggest climb on record.

It now stands higher than most of its regional neighbors — #Saudi, #Bahrain, #Egypt, #Yemen, #Turkey, #Iraq, #Sudan, #UAE, #Palestine, #Algeria & #Jordan.

[Taha Bali @tahabito]

A surreal moment out of Syria today: one of the original Daraa children who were arrested for writing anti-Assad graffiti on eve of Syrian revolution in March 2011 is being interviewed on the first day of public trial of his infamous jailer (and Bashar Assad’s first cousin) Atef Najib.

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

@tahabito أنت تكسر من السباب

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

@tahabito The curse of geography strikes again 😄. Or we’re capable of making 10 times more noise and troubles than other nations 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

Netanyahu still insists to mark Syria as red when talking about Iran’s axis despite the fall of the Assad regime over a year ago. Can’t hide his real expansionist face

[Levant24 @Levant_24_]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not tolerate the presence of “terrorist organizations” along its borders, adding that it has established security zones deep inside “enemy territory.”

He said Israeli forces are deployed in the Mount Hermon area, extending toward the Yarmouk region, and added that Israel is “looking after” its Druze allies. The remarks were made during a public appearance in front of a map showing several regional countries, including Syria, marked in red.

[Taha Bali @tahabito]

The extent of solar power panels deployment by private citizens in Syrian cities is truly unparalleled. This picture is out of al-Furqan neighborhood in western Aleppo.

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

Iranian state TV presenters crying live on TV as they announce the death of the evil Khamenei. This reminds me how Syrian state TV were crying in 2000 announcing the death of his friend Hafez Assad. Dictatorship playbook never changes

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

The BBC had time to edit out "Free Palestine" from Bafta speech but left N word slur unedited in other part of the same event... they got their priorities clear
https://t.co/YwN556J8jK

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

@SallyObeid يعني صار المثل الأعلى هو مظلوم عبدي وتوقه للحرية والكرامة وتمثيل الشعب وحفظ دماء الشهداء؟؟ غريب هذا التغاضي عن فظائع وشناعة قسد خلال العقد الماضي. قليل من الموضوعية رجاءً

[Fadel Abdul Ghany @FADELABDULGHANY]

Why Were No Civilians Displaced During the Fighting of the Past Two Days in the Syrian Jazeera Region?

Military confrontations are typically accompanied by significant civilian displacement. However, our monitoring of the recent fighting in the Syrian Jazeera region -particularly in the governorates of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor-revealed a notable exception: the absence of displacement among residents, despite Syrian government forces advancing and assuming control over dozens of towns and villages.

This development suggests that the local population does not perceive the advancing forces as an external or hostile presence. Rather, they appear to be viewed as forces emerging from within the community’s own social fabric -actors seen as restoring authority and bringing an end to the control of #SDF/#PKK that had imposed coercive rule and perpetrated widespread violations against civilians.

During the years of #SDF/#PKK control over the Syrian Jazeera region, we documented hundreds of thousands of violations affecting the civilian population. We hope that this recent change in control represents a definitive break from that period of abuse and marks the beginning of a more stable environment grounded in respect for rights and the protection of civilians.

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

Why am I not surprised?

[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

Israeli troops smuggled herd of 250 goats from Syria to West Bank farms — report https://t.co/ASggqMPqUl

[Ibrahim al-Assil إبراهيم الأصيل @IbrahimAlAssil]

Historic. After more than six decades of systematic discrimination, Syria formally recognizes Kurds as an integral part of the country, and Kurdish identity as part of Syrian identity, with full citizenship rights. Kurdish is now a national language, and Nowruz an official holiday.

This is a clear break with Assadist, Baathist, and Arab nationalist exclusion. A real page turned in the new Syrian republic and its social contract.

Presidential Decree (unofficial translation):

Article (1):
Syrian citizens of Kurdish origin are considered an essential and integral part of the Syrian people. Their cultural and linguistic identity is an inseparable part of the diverse and unified Syrian national identity.

Article (2):
The state commits to protecting cultural and linguistic diversity and guarantees the right of Kurdish citizens to revive their heritage and arts and to develop their language, within the framework of national sovereignty.

Article (3):
The Kurdish language is recognized as a national language and is permitted to be taught in public schools, particularly in areas where Kurds constitute a significant proportion of the population, as part of optional curricula or as an educational cultural activity.

Article (4):
All laws and exceptional measures resulting from the 1962 census in al-Hasakah Governorate are annulled. Syrian nationality is granted to citizens of Kurdish origin residing in Syrian territory who were previously unregistered, with full equality in rights and duties.

Article (5):
Nowruz (21 March) is recognized as an official, paid public holiday throughout the Syrian Arab Republic, as a national holiday celebrating the spring and fraternity.

Article (6):
State media and educational institutions are committed to adopting an inclusive national discourse. Any form of discrimination or exclusion based on ethnic or linguistic grounds is prohibited by law, and anyone who incites such discrimination shall be held accountable in accordance with applicable laws.

Article (7):
Ministries and relevant authorities shall issue the necessary executive instructions to implement the provisions of this decree.

Article (8):
This decree shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall enter into force as of the date of its issuance.

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

في غصة كل ما قرأت حدا كاتب "الجيش العربي السوري" ضمن تغطية الصراع مع قسد وميليشياتها في حلب. بداية لوجود كلمة العربي في صراع سوري-سوري مع مكون غير عربي. وثانياً لارتباط هذا البراند بجيش النظام السابق. حرام لو كان اسمه الجيش السوري؟؟!!

[Omar Alassil (al Assil) عمر الأصيل @omarassil]

أعين العالم على فينزويلا ورئيسها المخطوف غير المأسوف عليه ولكن قلوبنا وأعيننا على إيران وشعبها المنتفض من جديد على أحد أعتى أنظمة الشر في العالم