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Fourteen-year-old Muhammad Qteish spends weeks in his room in Syria’s war-torn city of Aleppo, gluing together small pieces of colored paper. Known around town as “the little architect,” Muhammad has spent months creating the new Aleppo, the Aleppo he hopes to help build once all the fighting is over.
If the international community truly wants the YPG to succeed, they need to steadily supply them with air support, argues Mecid Mohamed. This would allow Kurdish forces to pursue the same type of offensive strategy in Hasaka that they did with great success in Tel Abyad and Tel Timr earlier this year, where they defeated ISIS in less than two months.
Instead of hosting traditional weddings, many young Syrians, both inside and outside the country, are using the occasion to help out their fellow countrymen.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics, which she hopes to use to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
Syria Deeply speaks with a medical equipment engineer and member of the Union of Free Syria Doctors in besieged eastern al-Ghouta to discuss the creative methods residents are using to overcome the blockade.
As students return to classes this month in the rebel-held areas of Aleppo, they won’t be heading back to the classrooms they left last year. Instead, they’ll be receiving lessons in basements and other “secure areas” across the devastated city.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics, which she hopes to use to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
Hundreds of Syrian university degrees are reportedly being forged on a daily basis, putting the reputation of Syrian academics at serious risk. But counterfeiters say their only concern is to help their countrymen find a “safe way out”.
Thousands of widowed Syrian women face poverty as well as grief. Unable to work, and with no income of their own, they often endure strict control from their remaining family. For some, life is so difficult that they make the heartbreaking decision to remarry in a desperate attempt to find financial stability.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics, which she hopes to use to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
Three years after her father’s disappearance, 24-year-old Raneem Ma’touq tells Syria Deeply her family’s story.
As Russian fighter jets carried out their second straight day of air raids, Syria Deeply spoke to people on the ground about their reactions to Moscow’s military intervention.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics, which she hopes to use to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
To give you an overview of the commentary surrounding the 70th U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, an annual summit of global leaders that will bring particular focus to the ongoing crisis in Syria, we’ve organized a breakdown of some of the best analysis pieces across the internet.
To give you an overview of the breaking news surrounding the 70th U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, an annual summit of global leaders that will give particular focus to the ongoing crisis in Syria, we’ve organized an overview of today’s most important news stories.
To give you an overview of the commentary surrounding the 70th U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, an annual summit of global leaders that will bring particular focus to the ongoing crisis in Syria, we’ve organized a breakdown of some of the best analysis pieces across the internet.
To give you an overview of the commentary surrounding the 70th U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, an annual summit of global leaders that will bring particular focus to the ongoing crisis in Syria, we’ve organized a breakdown of some of the best analysis pieces across the internet.
To give you an overview of the breaking news surrounding the 70th U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, an annual summit of global leaders that will give particular focus to the ongoing crisis in Syria, we’ve organized an overview of today’s most important news stories.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics, which she hopes to use to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
Aleppo’s opposition-controlled areas suffered heavy casualties last week, following renewed attacks by the Syrian government’s air force.
Two Syrian refugees who attempted to swim part of the way to Europe told Syria Deeply why they made such a dangerous journey.
Syria Deeply had the rare opportunity to speak to Palestinian refugees from Syria about becoming “double refugees” as they flee the violence there and seek security in Lebanon. At least 45,000 Palestinians have arrived in Lebanon from Syria since the civil war began, according to the U.N.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics, which she hopes to use to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
Syria Deeply spoke to Druze in Sweida about the struggle to remain neutral following the death of one of their religious leaders. Still reeling from an attack by Jabhat al-Nusra earlier this summer, many are hesitant to join the uprising.
Syria Deeply spoke to Syrians as refugees flee the ongoing civil war in droves with the hope of gaining asylum in Europe. Often paying smugglers their life savings, the refugees risk their lives along the way.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics. She hopes to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
Fighting has caused Syrian wheat farmers to lose thousands of acres of crops. Nonetheless, this year’s wheat harvest is produce nearly twice as much as last year.
Syria Deeply met with the families of missing Syrians whose fates remain unknown. While at least 240,000 people have been killed during the civil war, tens of thousands of others have simply been “disappeared”.
Syria Deeply met with Palestinian refugees from Syria displaced to difficult conditions in Lebanese camps. More than 45,000 Palestinian refugees have been displaced from their camps in Syria to neighboring Lebanon.
The latest catastrophe to hit the Damascus-area Yarmouk camp is an ongoing outbreak of typhoid. Besieged by the government for years and invaded by ISIS in April, Yarmouk’s Palestinian refugees struggle for a way out.
Syria Deeply met with Wareef Kaseem Hamdeo, a chef from Aleppo who moved to the Gaza Strip and became a local celebrity after opening a Syrian restaurant.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics. She hopes to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
Syria Deeply spoke to Doctors Without Borders about allegations of chemical weapons use against civilians in areas across Syria since the uprising began in March 2011. In recent months, at least 11 hospitals in Aleppo have been bombed by government forces.
Suwar Magazine examines the Islamic State’s brutal treatment of women in areas under its control across Syria, including Deir Ezzor.
President Assad’s declarations of amnesty have led to the arrest and detainment of many who accepted the offer, say activists and relatives of those now considered missing.
Suwar Magazine spoke to former soldiers who defected from the Syrian army.
Syria Deeply had the rare opportunity to speak to foreign volunteer fighters in the People’s Protection Units, the main Kurdish group fighting ISIS and other Islamist groups in Syria.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories of life in the war. She recently moved to Damascus to continue her education, deciding to focus her college studies on prosthetics. She hopes to help heal the injured in her country’s conflict.
Syria Deeply spoke to residents of Douma, a Damascus-area town that has been attacked by government forces three times in the last week. Airstrikes have killed hundreds of civilians, including children, in this already besieged community, leading a local council to declare the area a “disaster zone”.
Syria Deeply had the rare opportunity to speak to Druze – who find it increasingly difficult to maintain neutrality in the ongoing civil war – in the city of Sweida. Despite disputes within the community about whether to take a position, Syrian Druze are united in their concern about their future in the country.
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