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Afrin’s displaced torn between another exile and danger in northern Aleppo
As part of a slow procession of families reeling from the bitterness and pain of a new displacement, Salwa Omar (a pseudonym) ...
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Opposition fighters break into Aleppo city: Why now?
Syrian opposition factions and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) entered Aleppo city on Friday, pressing forward on the third day of ...
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No return to Yarmouk for Syrian-Palestinians fleeing Lebanon
Badawi, the Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon where Fadi Hani Bahij has lived with his wife and three children ...
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‘For being Syrian’: Xenophobia fuels refugee killings in Turkey
Hussein Omar Azouz did not want anybody to get hurt. Following the advice of the manager of the fruit and vegetable shipping ...
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Economic empowerment programs for al-Hol returnees limited by lack of funding
Umm Ali (a pseudonym) sits at her sewing machine in the small space she has set aside for her business at her house in ...
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Empty fields, missed plantings: Lebanese fields barren as Syrian farmworkers displaced by war
Fertile fields stretch to the horizon in Chaat, a farming village in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley. In mid-November, most ...
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Op-Ed: Syria’s climate emergency: Conflict no excuse for inaction
Syria’s environmental challenges have been sidelined—overshadowed by more than 13 years of devastating conflict and instability—but delaying climate interventions is not an option, Haid Haid writes. A ...