Today, the 15th of May, marks 65 years since Palestine was partitioned and Palestinians were expelled from their land in order to create a Jewish Nationalist State, thus executing the infamous Balfour Declaration. Britain must be held primarily responsible for these continuing crimes against humanity: the partitioning of the Palestinian homeland and the expulsion […]

The Syrian authorities have released a decree firing all public employees who have been unable to attend to their jobs, with many incapable of doing so because that escalating war has forced them into becoming internal or external refugees. The current predicament these civilians is largely due to the Syrian regime’s brutal participation in militarising […]

  During the early hours of today (Sunday 5/5/2013) the Airforce of our enemy and the occupier of our land, Israel, has breached our national sovereignty and attacked us. This is nothing but an act of aggression against the Syrian state and the Syrian people. We in the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change condemn […]

Haytham Manna -Written on 18/4/2013 for the Guardian The situation in Syria is the gravest it has been since peaceful protests began in March 2011. Civil resistance has been reduced to relief operations and humanitarian assistance, and the efforts of Syria’s democratic forces are now scattered and fragmented. Foreign support for the Syrian National Coalition and superimpose […]

  Damascus – 23/02/2003 With the approach of the second anniversary of the start of the Syrian revolution continuing and escalating. And amid mounting violence, which bears the primary responsibility, and the steadfastness of our people who gave the most precious sacrifices of blood sons where overcome prepare martyrs of whom seventy one thousand dead […]

HAYTHAM MANNA 11 February 2013   Is it possible in such a situation to face the threat of foreign intervention and yet make internal democratic change with the peaceful civil movement which started from Dara’a? I repeat, and say for the umpteenth time, yes, and yes. Could political violence coexist with a democratic project? This big […]

News services reported yesterday, and it was confirmed later by the Syrian authorities, that the Israeli Airforce attacked a Syrian military facility outside Damascus. We at the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria (NCB) strongly condemn this flagrant Israeli attack on Syria and Syria’s sovereignty. We demand all responsible international bodies, particularly the […]

  January 23, 2013 by sks Saleh al-Nabwani, a leader of National Coordination Body in Exile – NCB was arrested today in Syria by security forces in al-Sweida Province while he was delivering humanitarian relief to people who have been internally displaced and have come to that area. Saleh used to live in the Arab […]

Our people in Ras al-Ain / Sere Kaniye in north Syria have been under suspicious armed attack from outside and inside the Syrian borders for some time which has become fiercer since 16 January 2013, with accompanying repugnant irresponsible statements aiming to split the national front and the social identity that forms the demographics of […]

We received deeply worrying news that some of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (NCB) detainees held by the Syrian authorities are soon to be taken to the infamous military field courts, our colleague Rami al-Hinawi is especially threatened. The NCB condemns this cowardly act and warns those responsible that their crimes will not […]

Statements attributed to Bogdanov about the departure of the Syrian President did not succeed in diverting much attention from the subject of Jabhat al-Nusra, which was heavily covered in the meeting of the Friends of the Syrian people in Marrakech. Mohamad Tayfur of the Muslim Brotherhood pre-empted the conference sessions by saying that the decision […]

The district of Gaza has been subject to a violent assault by the Zionist Occupation on 14/11/12, which used all sorts of weaponry causing many casualties and injuries. We at the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria fully condemn this assault and call upon Arab and Islamic countries, as well as the UN […]

For the past two months people have been passing over the Syrian National Council, and the founders and independents, members, associate and membership missionaries are now flocking to Doha to take this body out of quarantine, which Dr. Eric Chevalier failed to reanimate alone. Neither the photo of his leadership with President Hollande, nor the […]

The US needs to change policy. Its one-sided support for armed rebels may condemn Syrians to years of bloodshed Aleppo has fallen victim to the worst destruction of any major city in the world since 1945. Photograph: Manu Brabo/AP Jonathan Steele The Guardian, Sun 28 Oct 2012 20.30 GMT The four-day ceasefire that went into […]

“I hate the Alawites and the Shiites. We are going to kill them with our knives, just like they kill us”(1). When I read this sentence in the very professional newspaper “International Herald Tribune” in an article about al Zaatari camp in Jordan, I asked 3 of my friends to ask 60 children in the […]

The Syrian National Coordination Body SNCB has just finished its meeting with UN-Arab envoy Lakhder Brahimi in Damascus. SNCB has agreed during the meeting with the initiative of ceasefire on the occasion of Eid which occur next week. Munzer Khaddam, one of SNCB’s delegation members, has praised Mr. Brahimi personnel characters as a diplomatic man […]

-Syria is a sovereign State, its people are free and in full control of the State and all their territory. The sovereignty of the Syrian territories, State and people are one in the same. The Syrian people have a right to struggle by any means necessary to reclaim their occupied territories. -The Syrian people are […]

The parties, political organisations, and personalities participating in the National Conference for Syria Salvation agree on the following principles as a basis and general foundation for their political position and movement: 1. Toppling the regime with all its figures and facets, which ensures the ability to build a civil democratic State, a state of law, […]

  -Syria is a sovereign state, its people are free and in full control of the state and all their territory. The sovereignty of the Syrian territories, state and people are one in the same. The Syrian people have a right to struggle by any means necessary to reclaim their occupied territories. -The Syrian people […]

  The parties, political organisations, and personalities participating in the National Conference for Syria Salvation agree on the following principles as a basis and general foundation for their political position and movement: 1. Toppling the regime with all its figures and facets, which ensures the ability to build a civil democratic state, a state of […]

The National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria can now fully confirm that our kidnapped members are in the hands of the Syrian Airforce Intelligence. Dr. Abdelaziz al-Khayer -Head of the NCB Foreign Affairs Office-, Iyas A’yash -Member of the NCB Executive Committee and a leading figure of the Arab Socialists Movement-, and Maher […]

  In follow up with our former statement regarding the disappearance of the NCB’s members Dr. Abdelaziz al-Khayer -Head of the NCB Foreign Affairs Office-, Iyas A’yash -Member of the NCB Executive Committee and a leading figure of the Arab Socialists Movement-, and Maher Tahan -NCB member-. We lost communication with them less than 30 […]

  Today, Thursday the 20th, 5 members of the NCB’s delegation to the People’s Republic of China returned to Damascus. They left Damascus International Airport at 5 pm and boarded of two cars, only one of which arrived to its intended destination. We have since lost communications with the other car. Inside of it were […]

  The media committee supervising the “Rescue Syria” national conference, to be held on the 23rd of September 2012, announced that Syrian regime forces detained members of the conference and of the preparatory committee – who’s names are listed below- persisting on the military and violent path which increases in ferocity every time a Syrian […]