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April 04
Last September, a ceasefire paused the fighting for the battered town of Zabadani, considered the gateway into the Qalamoun mountains north of Damascus.
The town was a rebel stro...
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March 24
Civil Defense Units (CDUs) provide emergency response for victims of shelling, barrel bombs and other violence in rebel-held Syria.
While most people would run in the opposite di...
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March 08
An estimated 3.2 million women and girls are among the 6.6 million internally displaced inside Syria, according to a report in late 2015 by the United Nations Office for the Coord...
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March 02
Earlier this month, the UN Human Rights Committee reported that tens of thousands of prisoners currently remain in regime custody: “Since March 2011, a countrywide patt...
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February 25
Ghadeer, a sixth grader, speaks at a ceremony in Douma to honor local students’ achievements on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Yahya a-Batwani.
Children in Damascus’s r...
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February 25
Opposition authorities in regime-encircled East Ghouta issued on Tuesday an “urgent call for support” to rebuild the only clinic serving 55,000 residents of the Marj d...
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February 24
Residents hold a sign that reads, “We welcome the UN, an ally of Russia and Bashar al-Assad in the burning and murder of hundreds of thousands in Syria.” Photo c...
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February 18
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent delivered thousands of food baskets to five blockaded towns on Wednesday as part of a deal agreed upon by world powers last week in Munich.
The deal ...
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February 15
Children in the blockaded, rebel-held East Ghouta suburbs are contracting tuberculosis, polio and other preventable diseases because they have no access to vaccinations.
One moth...
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February 11
The Unified Medical Office in East Ghouta launched the “It is my Right to be Vaccinated” media campaign on Monday to demand that the regime allow international aid org...
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