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    Heba Alrejleh and Radwan Jomaa with children Aya, 11, Lilian, 4, and Mohamed, 10. "The words 'to send us back to Syria' means to destroy our lives," says Jomaa.
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    In Denmark, Fears Grow Among Syrian Asylum Seekers As Residence Permits Are Revoked

    Apr 11, 2021
    Denmark says security in Syria has improved enough for some refugees to go back. "The words 'to send us back to Syria' means to destroy our lives," says a Syrian whose residence permit was revoked.
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    In this March 31, 2019, photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria.
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    No Country Will Take Them: Alleged ISIS Widow With Kids The Latest Of Many In Limbo

    Mar 26, 2021
    The case of a woman who reportedly married ISIS fighters and is now stuck in Turkey with her young children has become the subject of a diplomatic dispute between Australia and New Zealand.
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    Middle East
    Volunteers clear the Old Market district of debris in Aleppo, Syria, in 2019. Years of fighting have left many sections of Aleppo destroyed.
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    Syria's Civil War Started A Decade Ago. Here's Where It Stands

    Mar 15, 2021
    The conflict has not only pitted the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad against a band of rebels, but drawn the U.S., Iran, Russia and Turkey, among others, into a complex proxy war.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures while speaking to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during talks in Damascus in September. Assad and his wife, Asma, have been diagnosed with coronavirus infection, according to an official statement.
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    Syria's Bashar Assad And His Wife Test Positive For Coronavirus

    Mar 08, 2021
    The couple received PCR tests after experiencing minor symptoms consistent with the virus, according to an official statement. Both are in "good health and in a stable condition," it said.
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    Shattered glass is on the ground following a rocket attack in Irbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on Feb. 15. On Thursday, the U.S. launched airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed groups in eastern Syria in response to recent
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    U.S. Launches Military Airstrikes Against Iranian-Backed Militants In Syria

    Feb 25, 2021
    The Thursday strikes targeted Iranian-backed groups in eastern Syria in response to rocket attacks against Americans in Iraq.
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    Presiding judge Anne Kerber (left) stands before handing the verdict to Syrian defendant Eyad al-Gharib (right, face hidden under a folder) Wednesday in Koblenz. Gharib, 44, a former Syrian intelligence service agent, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in jail
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    Landmark Verdict In Germany Sentences Syrian For Aiding Crimes Against Humanity

    Feb 24, 2021
    Eyad al-Gharib was convicted for sending protesters to a prison where they were tortured, in the first criminal trial against Syrians who served in President Bashar Assad's government.
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    American Sam Goodwin was captured and imprisoned in Syria in 2019 when he was 30 years old.
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    'I Was Absolutely Terrified': American Sam Goodwin Describes Syrian Prison Time

    Feb 04, 2021
    The traveler tells the story of his two months held in Syria's notorious prisons, and how his family got a Lebanese official to help secure his release.
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    Syrians buy bread at a shop in the town of Binnish in the country's northwestern Idlib province in June. Nowadays, people say they're waiting up to six hours in line for a meager government bread ration.
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    Imagine Waiting 6 Hours To Buy A Couple Of Bags Of Bread

    Dec 03, 2020
    That's the situation in Syria, where bread shortages are now widespread — and the queues for daily rations stretch on and on. The same goes for gasoline.
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    From Syria To America: A Teen Seeks A 'Safe Place' In The Universe

    Nov 25, 2020
    He was only 10 when the soldiers took away his father. Eventually the family fled to Jordan. But where would they go next? Their saga inspired a Pulitzer-winning graphic series in The New York Times.
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    A woman walks past a wrecked van near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha. Local residents and medical staff told NPR that noncombatant civilians who were in the van were injured and killed last year the night of the U.S. raid on the compound of I
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    Pentagon Says 2 Men Killed In Baghdadi Raid Were Combatants But Offers Little Evidence

    Oct 27, 2020
    After NPR reported claims of civilian deaths in the operation against the ISIS chief, Central Command says the men showed "hostile intent," but it found no weapons or signs they fired at U.S. forces.
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    "You have to be calm because people are scared, the civilians and the patients are scared, and they can't see you scared," Dr. Omar Ibrahim says of his years as a surgeon in a Syrian war zone.
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    Whatever Happened To ... The Only Brain Surgeon Working In Aleppo From 2014 To 2019?

    Sep 09, 2020
    Dr. Omar Ibrahim went from Aleppo to Idlib province in Syria to continue treating injuries from shelling. Now, after six years of doing surgery in a war zone, he is starting a new chapter in his life.
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    Syrian refugee Mohammad al-Saleh near Amman. He and his wife are farm laborers and were working in the fields when their tent caught fire in June, killing their four youngest children.
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    'No Hope': A Deadly Tent Fire In Jordan Leaves Syrian Refugee Farm Workers In Despair

    Aug 22, 2020
    The Saleh family lost four young children in a fire that broke out in their tent in June, when the parents were working in farm fields. Syrian refugees make up about 70% of Jordan's farm workers.
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    A medic checks the temperature of a Syrian worshipper before entering the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus to attend Friday prayer on May 15. To try to slow the coronavirus outbreak, the Syrian government has banned mass prayers and asked Syrians to stay home
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    Syria Is Overwhelmed By Coronavirus As Govt Conceals Outbreak, Health Worker Says

    Jul 31, 2020
    Medical workers in and outside the country say there's a lack of medicine and tests.
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    Syrian Oscar-nominated filmmaker Feras Fayyad answers journalists' questions outside a courtroom during a break in a trial against two Syrian defendants accused of state-sponsored torture in Syria, on April 23, in Koblenz, Germany.
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    Syrian Filmmaker Speaks Out On Torture: 'I Was Holding This Pain For A Long Time'

    Jul 01, 2020
    Oscar-nominated documentary maker Feras Fayyad delivered the first witness testimony in a crimes against humanity trial against a former Syrian government official in Germany.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    An employee of a Syrian pharmaceutical factory works on the production line of the hydroxychloroquine drug on April 28, in the government-controlled city of Homs.
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    Factories In Syria Ramp Up Production Of Hydroxychloroquine Amid Soaring Demand

    May 11, 2020
    "Hydroxychloroquine is included in the [Syrian] national case management guidelines for COVID-19," though there's no evidence that it's effective, a World Health Organization representative tells NPR.
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    In a courtroom in the western German city of Koblenz, a former high-ranking Syrian intelligence officer, charged with crimes against humanity, will go to trial on Thursday.
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    Suspects In Syrian Crimes Against Humanity Trial Will Face Accusers In German Court

    Apr 22, 2020
    In a first, Syrian witnesses and plaintiffs, some of whom survived torture in a Damascus prison, will see a former high-ranking Syrian official in court on charges of crimes against humanity.
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    A soldier holds his hands up trying to tell the children he is out of lollipops. Kurdish refugees are streaming in to Tal Tamr and nearby villages in Syria.
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    In Tal Tamr, Syrian Kurds Seek Safety And Shelter From Turkish Attacks

    Apr 15, 2020
    Dozens of Kurdish families fled to the northeast Syrian village of Tal Tamr last fall, escaping a Turkish invasion. U.S. forces help provide some security, but the families face an uncertain future.
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    National Security
    1st Lt. Shelby Koontz and Rumi meet after her overnight shift ends. They sit for a scratch session next to the dog house that the soldiers built for Rumi on base.
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    'Raccoon Dog' Wandered Onto Army Base In Syria And Helped Center Soldier

    Apr 10, 2020
    When Rumi wandered onto a military base in Syria, 1st Lt. Shelby Koontz took her in. She didn't want to abandon Rumi when her deployment ended, so Koontz used social media to find her a forever home.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    The Idlib Health Directorate and Civil Defense Crews along with local charities carry out disinfection works at a tent city in Idlib, Syria, on March 20.
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    The Challenges Of Preparing For Coronavirus In Syria

    Mar 20, 2020
    "We're scared of coronavirus and we don't know what God has written for us," says an aid worker. "The precautions being taken here are very little and very weak."
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    "It is a very, very sad thing when my son says to me, 'Mum, I don't want to die,'" says Etab Hadithi.
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    'We Don't Know Where To Hide': The Day-To-Day Struggles For Civilians In Idlib

    Mar 16, 2020
    "It is a very, very sad thing when my son says to me, 'Mum, I don't want to die,'" says Etab Hadithi, a 41-year-old mother of two. "We are all suffering ... from a dangerous life."
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    Syrians ride a motorcycle past a burnt vehicle near the northwest Syrian village of Barisha in the Idlib province of Syria, near where U.S. forces raided an ISIS compound.
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    The U.S. Investigates Possible Civilian Deaths During Baghdadi Raid In Syria

    Mar 13, 2020
    The military is conducting a credibility assessment of claims of civilian casualties during the U.S. operation against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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    A Turkish military convoy drives in the east of Idlib on Feb. 28.
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    Russia And Turkey Agree To Syria Cease-Fire, But Idlib's Agony Is Far From Over

    Mar 05, 2020
    Turkey and Russia agreed to the cease-fire after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Thursday in Moscow.
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    Middle East
    Satellite images released by Save the Children show an undisclosed area in Idlib province in July 2018 (left), and after apparent aerial bombardment in May 2019.
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    'There's Nothing Left': Satellite Images Show Razed Villages In Idlib, Syria

    Mar 04, 2020
    New images show the scale of the destruction in the rebel stronghold of Idlib, where the United Nations says nearly a million people have been displaced in the last three months.
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    The Art of Not Forgetting

    Mar 03, 2020

    An exhibit at CSN aims to dispel our "social amnesia"

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    Many refugees, who have fled the fighting in Syria's Idlib province, are living in tents during a cold and snowy winter.
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    U.N.: Humanitarian Crisis In Syria Reaches 'Horrifying New Level'

    Feb 25, 2020
    As fighting escalates in northwest Syria, the U.N. estimates that thousands of Syrians are being displaced every day.

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