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Darayya marks Ramadan as displaced residents return (Photos)
Ramadan feels different this year in Darayya, with the return of thousands of displaced people and a fall in some food prices.
In Syria’s ‘barrel bomb capital’ Darayya, housing crisis stalls return
Around 25,000 people have returned to Darayya, just south of Damascus, since the regime fell. Destruction and a worsening housing crisis prevents the return of others to the battered city, home to 350,000 people before 2011.
As garbage dump pollutes wells, Idlib officials slow to respond
Wells that hundreds of Idlib residents rely on for drinking water and irrigation have been contaminated by waste at a nearby quarry-turned-dump, while local Salvation Government officials are slow to respond.
Idlib camps face ‘harsh summer’ after losing sanitation services
Waste is piling up in 194 displacement camps in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province after three humanitarian organizations stopped providing sanitation and water services at the start of the year. As summer approaches, some 200,000 residents fear the spread of disease.
Idlib camps increasingly permanent despite ‘dream of return’
Thirteen years after the Syrian revolution, displacement camps in Idlib’s Atma look increasingly like towns, tents replaced by cement buildings. Has the dream of return been lost?
With little support, thousands of Syrians homeless one year after earthquake
One year after the February 6 earthquake, tens of thousands of Syrian survivors are still homeless, without enough support to repair and rebuild their homes. Aid workers stress the importance of early recovery to facilitate returns and provide livelihoods.
From Idlib to Gaza: Syrians demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians
Residents of Syria’s opposition-held northwest demonstrate in support of Palestinians facing displacement and bombardment in Gaza—an experience many of them share.
‘We pay the price for their conflict’: Civilians across northern Syria under Damascus and Ankara’s bombs
Bombings across northern Syria this month—by the Syrian regime and Russia against the HTS-controlled northwest, and by Turkey in the SDF-controlled northeast—have something in common: killing civilians and damaging infrastructure.
Flooded soil, cracked earth: Farmers face earthquake damage along the Orontes River
Cracks, soil displacement and flooding due to the February 6 earthquake severely damaged farmland along a 55-kilometer stretch of the Orontes River in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, wiping out farmers’ crops.
On the 12th anniversary of the revolution, Syrians look for a way forward
On the twelfth anniversary of the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in March 2011, “everything is different on the ground from what it was the first year,” its course far from the aspirations of those who took part.