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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
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Interview English SY 2025-09-25 Tier 2 Asaad al-Shaibani (Foreign Minister of the post-Assad Syria) — in conversation with Fareed Zakaria at the Council on Foreign Relations, 25 Sep 2025: "Syria is now free, without Assad regime," opening "a new page... of peace and of cooperation with the region, with the world"; the state alone should bear arms ("only the army"); and the new government "would not impose Sharia on anyone."
Syria is now free, without Assad regime. The Syrian people now is rebuilding his country without any—without any authoritarian regime. Of course, now we are also open a new page with all the world—a page of peace and of cooperation with the region, with the world. We do not want the arms to be available to the…
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Speech Arabic SY 2025-09-24 Tier 2 President Ahmad al-Sharaa address to the 80th UN General Assembly, 24 Sep 2025 — first Syrian president at UN in nearly 60 years (English translation of Arabic original)
In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, The Syrian story is one that stirs emotions, where pain is mingled with hope. It is a story of a struggle between good and evil, between the weak and strong, in which there is support by none other than God or powerful falsehood, possessing all…
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Interview English SY 2025-01-19 Tier 2 Murhaf Abu Qasra (Defense Minister of post-Assad Syria) — interview with Reuters, 19 Jan 2025 (via ARK News): all armed factions, including the US-backed SDF, must integrate fully into the Ministry of Defense — "remaining a distinct military bloc... is incompatible with the framework of a large institution" — the new state's drive for a single national army.
As far as the Syrian Democratic Forces becoming part of the Ministry of Defense, this position is untenable. We propose their inclusion under the Ministry of Defense’s structure, with their distribution carried out in a military framework. There's no objection to this. However, remaining a distinct military bloc…
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Speech Arabic SY 2024-12-08 Tier 2 Ahmad al-Sharaa Umayyad Mosque victory speech, Damascus, 8 Dec 2024 (mosaic of sourced verbatim quotes; English translation of Arabic original)
Speaker: Ahmad al-Sharaa (formerly Abu Mohammad al-Julani). Location: Great Umayyad Mosque, Damascus. Occasion: HTS-led takeover of Damascus and fall of the Assad regime. The speech was delivered in Arabic. No publicly available single durable English transcript exists; the following are sourced verbatim segments…
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Interview English SY 2024-12-08 Tier 2 Hadi al-Bahra (President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition; Constitutional Committee co-chair) — Middle East Eye interview, 8 Dec 2024 (days after Assad's fall): his vision of a Syria of "equal rights and duties" for all citizens, and a transition that preserves state institutions rather than destroying them.
united land and people, where all citizens have equal rights and duties We don't want to destroy the current state institutions. We want to keep them running.
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Speech Arabic SY 2024-09-30 Tier 2 Syrian Arab Republic statement to the 79th UN General Assembly (FM Bassam Sabbagh), 30 Sep 2024 — Assad regime's final UNGA address before the December 2024 fall (English translation of Arabic original)
Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, As this session of the General Assembly is taking place, tensions internationally have reached a boiling point, and efforts to maintain international peace and security are confronted with real challenges and threats: clashes are intensifying, crises are multiplying, conflicts are…
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Article English SY 2019-01-28 Tier 2 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham behavioral civil-liberties / press-freedom record in Idlib: HRW documented 11 cases of HTS detaining residents for peacefully documenting abuses or protesting its rule (6 tortured), plus the death sentence of journalist Amjad al-Maleh. Documented by Human Rights Watch (28 Jan 2019).
Human Rights Watch documented 11 cases in which the group, Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham, detained Idlib residents, apparently because of their peaceful work documenting abuses or protesting the group’s rule. Six of those detained were apparently tortured. On December 9, citing sources close to Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham, news…
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Interview English SY Tier 2 Mazen Darwish (head of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression) — interview with Al Majalla (post-Assad-fall, late 2024 / early 2025): a national transitional-justice framework "with accountability at its core" is imperative to prevent vengeance and renewed civil war, but must be objective and "steer clear of the pitfalls of victor's justice."
The absence of accountability, I believe, would open the door to widespread acts of individual vengeance, plunging Syrian society into instability and potentially even civil war. Therefore, establishing a comprehensive national framework for transitional justice, with accountability at its core, is…
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Interview English SY Tier 2 Razan Zaitouneh (Syrian human-rights lawyer; founder of the Violations Documentation Center; 2011 Sakharov laureate) — direct quotes to Reuters, 2011 (per Syrian Observer profile): insisting "maintaining a peaceful uprising is the best guarantee for its victory," and warning the regime deliberately pushed the revolution toward violence and sectarianism to kill it. Abducted in Douma (the "Douma Four"), Dec 2013.
I still insist that maintaining a peaceful uprising is the best guarantee for its victory. From the first moment of the revolution, the regime has been pushing towards turning people to violence and turning the revolution into a sectarian issue. It knows that it could kill the uprising this way.