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Two Syrian refugees, Narwal Alakayleh (left) and Lina AlAlssantin (right), prepare for a pop-up dinner of Levantine food at Newcomer Kitchen.

Why A Classic Levantine Dish Is Sailing From Canada To Syrian Refugee Camps

Apr 27, 2019
Refugee women from a group called Newcomer Kitchen are cooking traditional Levantine food for their community in Toronto — and have found a way to share it with displaced Syrians in the Middle East.
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Goats and Soda
Tima Kurdi is the aunt of Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, who, along with his brother Ghalib and their mother Rehanna, were found drowned on a Turkish beach in 2015, after the raft they were traveling on capsized.

An Aunt's Memoir: Remembering The Drowned Syrian Boy On The Beach

Aug 31, 2018
Tima Kurdi has written a book that tells the story of the family's attempt to cross from Turkey to Greece in a rubber boat — and the struggle to make sense of the tragedy.
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The Two-Way
Smoke rises after Syrian government airstrikes hit the town of Douma.

Syrian Government Accused Of Killing Dozens In Chemical Attack

Apr 08, 2018
The reported chemical attack in Syria has killed at least 42 in the Ghouta region, near the capital Damascus. The Syrian government calls the reports "fabricated."
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The Two-Way
Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers celebrate around a statue of Kawa, a mythology figure in Kurdish culture as they prepare to destroy it in city center of Afrin, northwestern Syria, early Sunday.

Turkish Forces Seize Syrian City Of Afrin

Mar 18, 2018
The Turkish military has taken control of Afrin, a city in northwestern Syria. An advocacy group says nearly 200,000 people have been displaced by the fighting.
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The Two-Way
Syrian Red Crescent paramedics wait on Friday for the buses evacuating civilians from the government-held villages of Fuaa and Kafraya, on a highway in eastern Aleppo.

Four Besieged Syrian Towns Are Being Evacuated In Reciprocal Swap

Apr 14, 2017
In northern Syria, residents of Shia minority villages, long besieged by rebels, are leaving. Hundreds of miles away, two towns besieged by Syrian troops and their allies have started evacuating.
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The Two-Way
Burned, twisted metal from motorcycles covered an area where a suicide attacker blew up his small pickup truck outside a security office on Friday in the village of Sousian in northern Syria.

Car Bomb Kills More Than 50 People Near Syrian Town Captured From ISIS

Feb 24, 2017
At least 34 of the dead reportedly were civilians. The blast happened just north of al-Bab, at a checkpoint crowded with people who had fled the fighting and were preparing to return to their homes.
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The Two-Way
Russian military engineers drive armored personnel carriers in Aleppo, Syria, in a photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Syrian Rebel Factions Say They're Freezing Participation In Peace Talks

Jan 03, 2017
The rebels cited breaches of a cease-fire agreement by forces loyal to the Syrian government. This casts doubt on their participation in peace talks in Kazakhstan set to take place later this month.
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The Two-Way
Syrians who fled rebel-held areas of Aleppo take shelter Wednesday in the nearby town of Jibrin.

PHOTOS: Mass Exodus From Aleppo's Rebel Stronghold As Regime Forces Close In

Nov 30, 2016
More than 50,000 people have fled eastern Aleppo in the past four days, according to a monitoring group. This battle for the city could mark a turning point in Syria's war, now in its sixth year.
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The Two-Way
Syrian pro-government forces walk past damaged houses in eastern Aleppo, near Masaken Hanano, on November 23.

Syrian Government Forces Retake Rebel-Held Areas In Aleppo

Nov 27, 2016

Forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad have retaken the largest rebel-held district in the city, Masaken Hanano.

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The Two-Way
The U.S. ambassador to Jordan, Alice Wells, shakes hands with Syrian refugees Sunday ahead of their departure to the United States.

The 10,000th Syrian Refugee Is Set To Arrive In The U.S. This Week

Aug 28, 2016
This will fulfill a goal set by the Obama administration one years ago. A group of several hundred refugees will depart from Jordan in the next day, bound for California and Virginia.
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The Two-Way
This photo shows conjoined twins born in Syria on July 23, waiting for lifesaving surgery. Arrangements weren't made in time and the twins died on Wednesday.

Syrian Conjoined Twins Die While Waiting For Lifesaving Surgery

Aug 24, 2016
The newborns were evacuated from a rebel stronghold to the capital, Damascus, after lengthy negotiations earlier this month. Today, they died of heart failure as they awaited surgery.
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The Two-Way
5-year-old wounded Syrian child Omran Daqneesh sits alone in the back of the ambulance after he was injured during air strikes targeting Aleppo on Wednesday.

Brother Of Omran Daqneesh, Bloodied Syrian Boy In Viral Image, Has Died

Aug 21, 2016
Images of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, stunned after he was pulled from the rubble in Aleppo, have resonated worldwide. Activists say his brother was injured in the same airstrike and later died.
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The Two-Way
Children peer from a partially destroyed home in Aleppo, Syria in February. Syria's largest city used to be its economic locomotive, now it is has become an emblem of its stalemated civil war.

Crisis Looms In Aleppo As Troops Cut Off Last Road To Rebel-Held Areas

Jul 17, 2016
Losing this crucial supply line means that rebel-held areas of the Syrian city are completely cut off. Now, supplies are dwindling and activists are sounding alarms about a humanitarian crisis.
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The Two-Way
An injured man sits on a chair and a child lies on the floor as they receive medical treatment at a field hospital after an airstrike hit a refugee camp in Syria's Idlib province.

Activists Say Airstrike On Syrian Refugee Camp Kills At Least 28 Civilians

May 05, 2016
Only civilians fleeing violence were staying in the targeted camp, activists say. Only the Syrian regime and its allies conduct airstrikes in the area.
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The Two-Way
A police officer escorts a deported migrant from a small Turkish ferry carrying migrants deported from Greece as they arrive at the port of Dikili on Monday.

EU Deports First Group Of Migrants To Turkey

Apr 04, 2016
This is part of the EU's controversial deal with Turkey. The agreement, aimed at stemming the flow of migrants into the EU, has been widely criticized by rights groups.
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The Two-Way
Two children whose school was bombed in Aleppo pose in a mock destroyed classroom — set up by the charity Save the Children — outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday, one day before a donor conference aiming to raise money for victims

Diplomats Pledge Nearly $11 Billion In Aid For Syria At Donor Conference

Feb 04, 2016
The pledges made in London surpassed the goal of $9 billion. Participants are also discussing incentives for countries struggling with an influx of refugees and ways to improve humanitarian aid.
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The Two-Way
A Turkish police officer carries Aylan Kurdi's dead body off the shores in Bodrum, southern Turkey, on Sept. 2.

Father Of Drowned 3-Year-Old Syrian Delivers Christmas Message

Dec 25, 2015
The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi calls for "the whole world to open its doors to Syrians" fleeing the country's bloody civil war.
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The Two-Way
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was opened on Feb. 26, 2008. Carved into the Arctic permafrost and filled with samples of the world's most important seeds, it's a Noah's Ark of food crops to be used in the event of a global catastrophe.

Syrian Civil War Prompts First Withdrawal From Doomsday Seed Vault In The Arctic

Sep 23, 2015
Researchers in the Middle East have requested the first-ever withdrawal from the "final backup" seed bank because of destruction caused by the Syrian civil war.
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