Khalil Sweileh is a Syrian journalist and novelist.

"People are looking for amendments," said a knowledgeable Syrian journalist.

A Syrian journalist who interviewed Mr. Tracy described him as "incoherent."

This is not limited to Syrian journalists as members of the Associated Press and Reuters have been arrested and expelled from the country for their reporting.

He told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British".

Tahtawi and the Syrian journalists were living in a brief period of harmony between East and West.

Business reporter Lina Saleh Ibrahim is the latest Syrian journalist to go missing.

During his term, Dakhlallah urged the Syrian journalists to adopt a bolder approach.

"We've seen these guys - Kurds and Shiites - threatening one another publicly, in front of reporters," a Syrian journalist said.

"He was incoherent," said a Syrian journalist who interviewed him in Damascus.