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Syrians in former opposition pockets still using smugglers, corrupt security officials to transport themselves north amid ‘false promises’ of reconciliation
Apr 11,2019
The politics of return: Refugees, NGOs navigate increasingly fraught climate in host countries
Between bread queues and shifting red lines, war-weary Damascus residents navigate a city in flux
New legal initiative launches for ‘invisible’ families of Syria’s countless detained and disappeared
‘Where are you from?’ Facing fines and bureaucracy, refugee children in Jordan go undocumented
LATEST FROM Damascus
‘Is it safe to go home?’ Amid promises of amnesty in Syria, defectors abroad weigh their options
March 18
One chilly night in recent months, a group of former Syrian army defectors gathered in an apartment in one of Syria’s neighboring countries.
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‘To venture into the unknown’: After several years in the diaspora, a defector returns to Syria and then disappears
March 18
For months, Abu Mamdouh felt like he was being torn in half.
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Billions pledged in Syria aid at ‘Brussels III’ conference, but few signs of political solution in sight
March 14
International donors pledged $6.75 billion in humanitarian assistance for Syria and neighboring countries at the “Brussels III” conference on Thursday, following days of talks tha...
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Rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni warns against ‘making deals with war criminals’ as international community convenes at Brussels conference
March 14
BRUSSELS: “How can we build solutions with the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and war crimes?”
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‘I came here so I could talk,’ says Syrian NGO founder at Brussels III, despite limbo in Swiss asylum center
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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UN-registered Syrian refugees in Jordan return home for visits, unexpectedly lose refugee status: ‘If we had known, we wouldn’t have visited’
March 11
Just outside Damascus’ Old City in what was once the sprawling working-class suburb of Jobar, Abdel Rahman* had a home and a family.But it’s been eight years since he last saw tha...
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‘My life is here’: Syrian refugees in Denmark at risk of asylum denials, future returns under new Danish policy
March 11
Syrians demonstrate against the Danish government's refugee policies in December. Photo courtesy of Ahmad Abdulrahman. AMMAN: When Aisha* and her husband got married in Denmark a...
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Souriyeh / سوريّة: The women of Syrian journalism
February 28
Syria’s 2011 uprising gave hundreds of Syrian journalists a new voice to tell their country’s story. But have men and women been given an equal voice? What if the language we use ...
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Souriyeh / سوريّة: Art in Exile Part 2
February 27
For Syrian pianist and singer Salam Susu, music is about more than just a career.
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Souriyeh / سوريّة: Art in Exile Part 1
February 27
As a stateless Palestinian from Syria who has spent the past eight years in exile since fleeing her home—first in Algeria and now in Denmark—Samara Sallam often finds herself grap...
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Rebels, residents leave east Damascus district for Idlib: ‘It’s like starting over from scratch’
Sick residents evacuated, injured fighters leave as second round of Four Towns Agreement begins
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