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State of Siege in Syrian City Is Blocking Humanitarian Aid, Health Officials Say
Damaged buildings in the Syrian city of Homs, where, humanitarian groups say, the fighting has become so fierce that many civilians are trapped and efforts to send in aid have been thwarted. Photo:...
View ArticleTension soars as Syria rebel chief shot dead by jihadists
July 12, 2013 by AFP Simmering hostility between Syria’s mainstream rebels and jihadists has erupted into naked violence, with a Free Syrian Army commander in the coastal province of Latakia being...
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Syria rebels, jihadists fight in northwest: NGO
A Syrian rebel walks past a destroyed building in Salma in the coastal province of Latakia, on April 26, 2013. Rebel fighters have battled the Al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria —...
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Syria’s Women Face Violence, “Survival Sex” Abroad
A general view shows a Syrian refugee camp in the village of Saadnayel in the Bekaa valley on March 6, 2013. Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty July 24, 2013 by Jamie Dettmer They have escaped one war only...
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Surging violence in Syria may impede aid deliveries – UN food agency
In Zaatari refugee camp, WFP’s partner Save the Children provides transportation to help Syrian refugees carry their food rations to their tents or caravans. Photo: WFP/Dina Elkassaby July 30, 2013...
View ArticleNGO: Nearly 4,500 killed in Syria during Ramadan
August 8, 2013 by AFP At least 4,420 people were killed in Syria violence during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, some two thirds of them fighters on both sides, a monitoring group said Thursday....
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Syria’s traumatized refugee children will be the ones to rebuild their country
Mustafa, 12, fled his home in Aleppo, Syria, under intense shelling and fighting. Mercy Corps says his hair started to turn white shortly after he arrived as a refugee in Lebanon from the stress and...
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UN will continue relief work in Syria despite dangerous conditions, top...
As part of the humanitarian response, every day, contractors truck nearly four million litres of water to Za’atari camp for Syrian refugees in northern Jordan. Photo: IRIN/Heba Aly September 6, 2013...
View ArticleA Syrian’s Cry for Help
September 9, 2013 by Yassin al-Haj Saleh THE story is simple. Here in Syria, there is a regime that has been killing its subjects with impunity for the last 30 months. The notion that there is a...
View ArticleSyria children risk death just going to school
October 1, 2013 by AFP The army’s bombing of a Syrian high school has shown that even attending the first day of school can be fatal for students, a rights watchdog said Tuesday. On Sunday, the attack...
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