Speaking to CSI in early 2024 you said that the vast majority of Syrians were living below the poverty line. How is the situation now? There are even more people living below the poverty line now. We have over a million new unemployed who have no income: members of the army and police units that… Read more »
When dictator Bashar al-Assad was thrown out of power in December 2024, it ended over 50 years of his family controlling Syria. Now a new temporary government is running Syria, led by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and dominated by a jihadist organization called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) . For the Alawite people, who are a… Read more »
U.S. President Donald Trump with new Syrian President – and former jihadist leader – Ahmad al-Sharaa. Riyadh, 14 May 2025. (Karoline Leavitt on X) Guest Commentary by Charles Glass And you know something’s happeningBut you don’t know what it isDo you, Mister Jones? Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man,” 1965 When the… Read more »
These women and their children are among the 120,000 Armenians displaced from their homes in Nagorno Karabakh. csi The catalyst was a trip to Armenia in September 2024 and a moving encounter with refugees from Nagorno Karabakh – which Azerbaijan had invaded one year previously, expelling its 120,000-strong Armenian Christian population. “They asked me,… Read more »
Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications, told CBN News Trump’s pledge is welcomed by Christian Solidarity International. He also explained the sweeping impact the longstanding sanctions have had on the Syrian people. “The impact of the sanctions has been really devastating,” he said. “The U.S. and its allies imposed these sanctions on Syria in 2011… Read more »
In Homs, Syrians celebrated in the streets with flags and fireworks when President Trump announced an end to U.S. sanctions on Syria on May 13, 2025. X post Statement on the end of U.S. sanctions on Syria by Dr. John Eibner, CSI’s International President Christian Solidarity International (CSI) welcomes President Trump’s long-overdue decision to lift… Read more »
In Damascus, Syrian Christians walk the same roads where they spent years longing to be free of Assad’s dictatorship, yet they watch violence against minorities under the new government and wonder if they will be attacked next. csi Christians in Syria are afraid, a Syrian church leader told CSI in an interview. Though they celebrated… Read more »
ENGLISH – scroll down for Arabic Sami Alkayial Since December 8, 2024, the day that Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took control of the Syrian capital Damascus, Western officials have been repeating the same line: “The new Syrian administration must protect Syrians of all religious and ethnic backgrounds, and establish… Read more »
Syrian government security forces heading to fight in Sahnaya on April 30, 2025. @sayed_ridha on X After a spurious audio clip purporting to show a Druze shaykh insulting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad went viral on social media, government-backed forces, including jihadist groups, attacked the Druze-majority towns of Jaramana and Sahnaya, on the outskirts of… Read more »
In an interview with CSI, Bishop Georges Assadourian speaks about the hope Christians in Syria have as part of the body of Christ, even while they face an uncertain future under new Muslim rulers. Watch his video message Translated transcript: I am Bishop Georges Assadourian, Bishop of the Armenian Catholics in Damascus. First, I would… Read more »
