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New legal initiative launches for ‘invisible’ families of Syria’s countless detained and disappeared
March 28
The stories are often similar, repeated tens of thousands of times over: uniforms bursting through the door, loved ones taken away. Then, the silence.
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March 20
In the few quiet moments, Muayyed Abu Amer’s friends still gather to chat, drink tea and brew coffee late into the night—just like how things were before the war.
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March 19
In the early days, there was precious little equipment. Handheld camcorders, just a few props. Reflective headlights removed from cars served as light reflectors. And filming woul...
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March 14
BRUSSELS: “How can we build solutions with the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and war crimes?”
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March 14
BRUSSELS: A longtime humanitarian worker and the founder of his own Lebanon-based NGO, Ashraf Alhafny has spent the past seven months in a Swiss reception center for asylum seeker...
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March 12
Khan Sheikhoun is a town of concrete. Poured-cement homes stacked beside one another, cinder-block sheds, shops and cafes.To be indoors during a pro-government airstrike or bombin...
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March 07
Last week, a suspected Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber detonated themself inside a crowded restaurant in downtown Idlib city, killing several members of hardline faction Hay’at ...
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March 07
All his life, Alaa Aljaleel dreamed of becoming a rescue worker. His father had served on Aleppo city’s fire brigade for 40 years, and he was determined to continue the tradition.
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February 12
"Down with gangster rule." Graffiti in downtown Beirut, February 2. Photo by Tom Rollins for Syria Direct.
When the reconstruction of downtown Beirut first began in the 1990s, on...
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November 26
An undated photo of Raed Fares. Photo courtesy of Kafr Nabl Media Center.
Syrian civil society leader and activist Raed Fares was no stranger to threats against his life.
Since ...
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