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March 25
‘When things happen in the dark, there’s a higher risk that abuses occur’: HRW’...
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March 18
‘To venture into the unknown’: After several years in the diaspora, a defector ...
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February 27
Syrian author Khaled Khalifa on latest novel about ‘fear, in all its manifestat...
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LATEST Interviews
‘No clear path forward’ as Syrian government, rebel factions and international powers brace for possible Idlib battle
September 11
HTS fighters conduct military training exercises in Idlib in August. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP. After pro-government bombardment dramatically escalated this week across northern Hama a...
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‘Extremists will move to fill the vacuum’: Halt in funding, encroaching military advances leave future of Syria's Free Police in doubt
September 10
Free Police officers arrest a drug dealer in Idlib in August. Photo courtesy of Idlib Free Syrian Police. For the past six years in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, the Free S...
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Leaving refugee camp behind, Syrian teenager dreams of soccer glory in Brazil sports academy: ‘I’ll make Syria proud’
September 04
Zaatari's main sports field in August. Photo by Waleed a-Noufal. The plane touched down in the coastal Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro last Wednesday, and Syrian socc...
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Justice and accountability after the Islamic State: ‘Few options’ for victims of IS war crimes
August 23
A Syrian man rides a motorbike in Raqqa in February. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP.  Public executions, brutal extrajudicial murders and other atrocities were the norm in are...
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With the Islamic State almost entirely pushed out of Deir e-Zor, how can eastern Syria’s tribes pick up the pieces?
August 22
SDF commanders meet with Deir e-Zor tribal leaders on August 15. Photo courtesy of SDF Media.  In the deserts of eastern Syria’s Deir e-Zor province, the Islamic State...
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‘A treasure house of Syria’s past’: Archaeologists, NGOs reckon with scale of cultural looting in post-IS Raqqa
August 16
 Mosaics in the Raqqa Museum after Islamic State battle in August. Photo by Abdullah Ismail. Few insurgent groups in recent memory have made wanton destruction of cultu...
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‘China has a lot to gain by supporting Assad in a post-war Syria’: A conversation with Stimson Center researcher Logan Pauley
August 13
For 60 years, successive Chinese governments have stood doggedly by an official policy of “nonintervention” in the internal affairs of other states. And yet an August...
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Striking from the desert: Arms expert on how the Islamic State, in retreat, fuels its war effort
August 12
The Islamic State is now scattered across the deserts of Syria and Iraq. Driven back on all fronts, almost all of the territories the hardline group controlled at its height in 20...
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As Syria’s proxies converge on Idlib, what’s next for Turkey’s northern state-within-a-state?
August 06
In Syria’s rural northern Aleppo province, children raised speaking Arabic and Kurdish are set to begin studying Turkish this fall. Meanwhile, local council offices display ...
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Women, children face legal limbos and statelessness following collapse of Islamic State ‘caliphate’
August 01
Children in the Ain al-Issa camp in December 2017. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP. When the US-led international coalition launched its campaign against the Islamic State (IS) in 2...
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PHOTO BRIEFS
Photo essay: Displaced Syrians in Rukban camp build an education system from scratch
In a city buried by rubble, Raqqa residents work to restore ‘life’ to ancient heritage sites
Photo Essay: Everyday Jordanians send mattresses, bread, water to Daraa displaced as border remains shut
Photo Essay: A look inside Islamic State schoolbooks in southern Syria
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