Jul. 16, 2018
A Rukban toddler with “moderate” diarrhea symptoms on Monday, according to one nurse in the camp. Photo courtesy of Ruba Homsi.
AMMAN: Thousands of children in a remo...
May. 16, 2018
AMMAN: American-backed forces encircled the last Islamic State-held positions along the Euphrates River in eastern Syria this week after capturing a key town near the border with ...
May. 8, 2018
AMMAN: An unusual silence filled Muhammad Mahmoud’s home in central Syria during the three years in which he and his family lived under the Islamic State.
The former engine...
Mar. 19, 2018
Dozens of schools reopened in the formerly Islamic State-held eastern countryside of Deir e-Zor over the past month, giving more than 14,000 elementary and middle school students ...
Feb. 15, 2018
An expanse of valleys and sparsely populated open desert lies between Syria and Iraq. There, small cities and towns hug the banks of the Euphrates River, which flows through Syria...
Feb. 14, 2018
The Islamic State (IS) lost nearly all of its territory in Syria and Iraq over the past year.
“More than 98 percent of the land once claimed by [the Islamic State] has been...
Jan. 31, 2018
AMMAN: Dozens of residents of a remote displacement camp on the Syrian-Jordanian border suffered from hypothermia in recent weeks during the coldest month of the year, camp offici...
Jan. 24, 2018
AMMAN: Aghid al-Khodr wakes up early, before the sun rises. At his home in an undisclosed location in Germany, he begins his work.
For the next 15 hours, al-Khodr sits glued to h...
Dec. 11, 2017
AMMAN: United States-backed Iraqi and Kurdish-led Syrian forces are “coordinating” security against remaining Islamic State (IS) contingents along Syria’s northe...
Dec. 3, 2017
Umm Muhammad sits hunched over in a blue plastic chair, holding one of her ten children on her lap. Tucked beneath her seat, a single purse holds everything she owns. Her other ch...
