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Syrian Refugees Worry for Future Following Turkish Elections
Syria Deeply spoke with Syrian refugees in Turkey about their concerns following that country’s recent parliamentary elections.
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Syria Deeply spoke with Syrian refugees in Turkey about their concerns following that country’s recent parliamentary elections.
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.
As the conflict between Assad’s military and Syrian opposition forces escalates in Daraa, religious minorities fear persecution from both sides.
Syria Deeply spoke to Muhammad, a 25-year-old who joined the National Defense Forces after unsuccessfully trying to flee the country.
The ICRC’s Peter Maurer spoke to Syria Deeply about the urgent need for a political solution to end the humanitarian catastrophes plaguing Syrians.
A chronicle of one organization’s determination to bring hope and healing to Syrian refugees through innovative education.
“Many Syrians have been stuck at the borders for almost two weeks now and are suffering due to the scarcity of food and water.”.
Jan Egeland tells Syria Deeply that a real opportunity and obligation exists to pull together at an international level to change Syria’s story.
Syria Deeply talked to two women who fled ISIS-controlled areas of Syria to find out what wearing a burqa meant to them – and why they are happy to leave it behind.
With few other options, Syrian refugees in Lebanon are forced to live as second-class citizens with ever-greater restrictions on their daily lives.
“The scale of the economic destruction in Syria is reminiscent of some nations after second world war”, a leading expert tells Syria Deeply.
“Most children under five years of age who were born in the besieged areas of Syria have never encountered some of the most basic things in life.”.
A chronicle of one organization’s determination to bring hope and healing to Syrian refugees through innovative education.
Humans of Syria highlights stories from a generation of Syrian youth who have had to abandon their dreams of higher education.
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.
A chronicle of one organization’s determination to bring hope and healing to Syrian refugees through innovative education.
Syrian families use primus stoves as an alternative source of power.
The so-called Islamic State may be getting most of the headlines. But there’s another rebel group on the move in Syria, one that works with the US-backed Free Syrian Army, that is also cause for concern.
A chronicle of one organization’s determination to bring hope and healing to Syrian refugees through innovative education.
‘Syrians are using smugglers because they don’t have any other avenues to cross the Mediterranean,” Dawn Chatty tells Syria Deeply.
“Many young Syrians have left the country, and the military is in need of men to fight, so the checkpoints try to catch those who dodge their mandatory military service,” a resident of Latakia tells Syria Deeply.
“We realized that running away from death in Syria could be more dangerous than staying and facing it. ” a Syrian woman tell us.
Bicycles are becoming an increasingly valuable commodity.
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.
“Most of the lectures focused on the necessity of fighting Western countries, and the Arab countries that are their allies. They appointed themselves as God’s soldiers on earth and gave themselves the right to judge and punish people. ”.
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.
“A mother who had lost her son during the bombing of the center broke my heart when said she wished he had not woken up early that morning and he had not gone to school.”.
“The recruitment is still ongoing under the excuse of defending the area and claims these children volunteered by themselves. ”.
“In the free part of Aleppo, there are no hospitals in the typical meaning of the word. They’re merely simple medical centers working 24 hours a day,” a doctor tells Syria Deeply.
“These attacks happen in an instant but they are ripping families apart and they affect them for a lifetime.”.
Syria Deeply recently spoke with a woman who agreed to be the wife of an ISIS fighter in Raqqa.
Mia Bloom spoke with Syria Deeply about ISIS’ recruitment of women and the reality of their lives in Syria and Iraq.
“We were exposed to hunger, electrocution, beating and insults. We got sick, we got lice and scabies, and were often strip searched, which was the worst part.”
The World Health Organization estimates that 2 million or more Syrians are suffering from mild to moderate mental problems.
“The bottom line is that neither side is really capable of a full military victory in this war unless the other sides’ backers capitulate and cut support to their Syrian allies, which is highly unlikely.”.
Syria Deeply spoke with displaced Assyrian families who fled to Beirut after Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS arrived in their hometown of al-Hasakah. Many of them have relatives presently held hostage by ISIS.
Over the past year, an increasing number of Syrians have attempted to flee to Europe, crossing the Mediterranean illegally in overcrowded boats at the mercy of smugglers.
“The trip took four days: they were the hardest days of my life; fear was our constant companion.”.
Syria Deeply spoke by satellite phone and email with people living in Raqqa.
Syria Deeply met with some young Syrians who have recently made it to Europe to seek asylum.
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