Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, we have a lot of difficulty communicating inside Syria, especially in the besieged area and in the revolutionary cities. As you said, electricity and communications, including the Internet, were cut off. We had a lot of difficulty finding oil and petrol to turn on the g

Foreign Affairs committee  The problem inside Syria is that many areas don't have satellite Internet. Sometimes the regime has cut off the Internet for the cities. It is trying to kill them silently. This is really a big problem. Sometimes we can't find out what's going on there.

Foreign Affairs committee  We want communications, machines, and all that, but first you have to open the scene to allow those machines to enter these towns. We didn't die from hunger because we didn't have food; we have food outside the city, but we weren't allowed to get it in. That's also for the commun

Foreign Affairs committee  We did a lot of communication things during the last three years, and the whole world has the main idea about what's going on in Syria, so that is not a problem.

Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, we are not representatives of the coalition. Maybe....

Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, now we're staying in Istanbul. We are preparing for some activities with the kids. We are planning to go back to northern Syria. We know that the future is difficult. We know that there are obstacles in front of the Syrian people, the rebuilding of everything. The soc

Foreign Affairs committee  Since I was a child, my dad has told me how this regime that holds the power in Syria perpetrated many atrocities and massacres in the eighties in Hama. I personally have experience with the regime. When I tried to do some volunteer activities in Syria, the regime arrested some

Foreign Affairs committee  My brother, who was killed, as I mentioned, had three kids. Ahmad, who was seven years old, was killed with his parents, but we still have Fatima, who is eight years old, and Hanan, who is going to be two years old next Mother's Day. You can't imagine how powerful those kids ar

Foreign Affairs committee  Children and all civilians in Syria are suffering a lot. They also lost all their basic needs. I guess what is required is serious pressure on the regime to allow the United Nations and humanitarian aid to get into the besieged city and to continue the educational process for the

Foreign Affairs committee  Delegations.

Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, this process is the bloodiest peace talks ever. The international world didn't force the regime and the other parties to a ceasefire, and to allow humanitarian aid to get into a lot of places in Syria that are in a needy situation. How can the Syrian people believe in

Foreign Affairs committee  Of course not. We are not asking for those people to be evacuated from their homes. We want the aid, the humanitarian aid that is needed to get into their towns and their cities. That is not going to solve the problem at all. It may be increasing it.

Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, not all the people, not all the women and children were evacuated at that time. Now the regime is trying to force a kind of surrendering of those people. He's still holding the entrances to the city and he's still holding the food, so he's forcing them to stop the fire

Foreign Affairs committee  Good afternoon, everybody. I am Ameenah Sawan, from Moadamiyeh al-Sham, a city in the eastern part of the Damascus suburbs. I am 23 years old. I left college in 2011 at the beginning of the revolution. I was a student at Damascus University, the department of translation. My

Foreign Affairs committee  Hello, everybody. Thank you for listening to our stories. My name is Heba Sawan. I'm 24 years old. I studied English literature at Damascus University. I come from a small town called Moadamiyeh al-Sham. It's a Damascus suburb, just 15 minutes to the downtown. My town is surrou