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Armed robbers stalk northeastern Syria’s country roads
Just after midnight, four gunmen on motorcycles rode out of the darkness on a road north of Hasakah city, heading straight ...
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War in Lebanon forces Syrians back to ‘unsafe’ opposition areas
Stepping through the gates of the Aoun al-Dadat crossing into the opposition-held Aleppo countryside last week, Iman ...
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As Israel strikes Iran-linked figures in Damascus, civilians pay the price
In the hours after Israeli missiles hit a residential building in the Mezzeh area of Syria’s capital on Tuesday evening, ...
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As ‘axis of resistance’ faces greatest test, Damascus clings to the sidelines
Israeli missiles tore into a residential building in the Mezzeh area of the Syrian capital, Damascus on October 8, killing ...
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Disabled mothers in northwestern Syria face additional challenges, inadequate services
IDLIB — Eleven years after Safaa Hanno (a pseudonym), 30, lost her legs in an airstrike on her home in Reef Dimashq, she gave ...
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‘The world has failed us twice’: The Syrians left behind in Lebanon
A central parking lot in the coastal Lebanese city of Sidon is full. In place of cars and buses, mattresses, blankets, bags ...
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Will Iran’s proxies in Syria mobilize in support of Hezbollah?
MARSEILLE — For days following Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on September 27, one question was on the minds of many: How would Iran respond to the ...
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Under Israeli fire in Lebanon, many Syrians have nowhere to turn
MARSEILLE — As Said Ayoub Darwish sheltered with his family in an open field in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley on Tuesday evening, his phone lit up with notifications. An Israeli airstrike had just ...