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“It is a propaganda piece that is part justification, part myth busting and recruitment tool, and part clarification of a woman’s role in the Islamic State.”.
“No one thinks about their future here. At any moment a barrel could drop and we would all be killed.”.
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.
The civilians’ situation was terrible. Our appeals to save the area were not heard, and we suffered from a severe food shortage.
The Mulham Volunteer Team has become a household name in Jordan and Syria for its almost quixotic battle to bring back rare smiles to young refugees.
“It is estimated that about 600,000 to 800,000 people have been injured because of the war.”.
The Syrian Kurds’ willingness to sacrifice won them allies in the battle for Kobane. But obstacles remain to rebuild the city and translate military into political gains.
“The barrel bombs are continuing and indeed they are the principal reason why civilians are dying in Syria today. ”.
“Russia is going to try to score diplomatic points by playing host to these talks … it is basically trying to insert itself in every way it can in all of the U.S. engagements in the region.”.
“They managed to survive by sharing one meal a day, skipping a meal on some days. His children wake up in the middle of the night crying asking for food. Little children don’t know what a siege means.”.
“Our dignity is lost in other countries, and my mother’s sickness kept me from doing anything. It basically ruled out all my choices.”.
“When you ask the Syrian people what they want, the most urgent thing they say they want is a reduction of violence.”.
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.
“It will be very difficult to stop the Islamic State from using chemical weapons like chlorine … they are proliferating the fear factor.”.
“Everyone is thinking of ways to smuggle their daughters out of the city, but it is almost impossible”.
“They told us that we are at war with the infidels and the deserters … and so we should grab weapons and fight by their side.”.
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.
“Without external allies, the balance of power would have been very different in Syria today. ”.
“We believe that the center is the answer for many of the women in Ghouta, especially those who have been made homeless.”.
“Jabhat al-Nusra establishes inroads with local populations and local leaders, but ISIS establishes top-down control and seeks to rule through fear”.
Syrian Refugees tell Syria Deeply of the conditions they endure after a blizzard hits their camp in Lebanon.
Ahmed, an English literature student, explains why he had to obtain a fake university diploma in order to build a new life.
By September, Abu Mahmoud said the family faced an ultimatum. They could either accept a new life in Raqqa under the banner of ISIS, he said, or they could flee.
There is a belief that if you can move beyond Assad and those immediately around him, you would be able to starve the oxygen that ISIS and other extremists live off of.
Despite lacking the most basic amenities, the residents of a village in Daraa persist in their quest for education.
Syrian refugees in Turkey are importing coffee, cigarettes, and other simple and inexpensive products from their homeland to sell to fellow refugees. The extra income barely covers costs for many households.
Touma, her husband and their three children preferred the risk of living in Maaloula to the pain of leaving home.
Despite losing hundreds of fighters to US airstrikes and confronting Iraqi Kurdish fighters, the Islamic State has resisted eviction from Kobane, and its foes fear the fight will drag on.
“There are a lot of people involved in the social media campaign who are cheerleaders of ISIS who are not formally associated with ISIS and who aren’t necessarily based in Iraq and Syria.”.
‘If we can reduce the targeting of hospitals, we can help a lot of Syrians’.
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.
These days, the Syrian people are not only suffering from a tyrannical regime, but also from opposition factions that share the regime’s tyranny.
More Syrian women are working as first-responders in rebel-held areas. Trained in emergency medical care and search and rescue operations, they are winning over conservative Syrians by playing a nontraditional role in the conflict.
‘Studies show that common heritage helps foster compatibility between communities in the postwar phase’.
‘Iraq is home to some of the most holy sites in Shia Islam and if ISIS were to come close to them, Iran would be obligated to defend those sites’.
‘When people feel confused about the world and the society they live in, when they feel they need a more secure environment that can help them navigate troubled social conditions, you often see an upsurge of religious fundamentalism’.
‘The Assad regime will always have an authoritarian tendency and willingness to put it to force, and arrest any politicians that disagree with its point of view’.
The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, which patrols the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, has reported Israeli contact with Syrian rebels over 18 months. Syria accused Israel in attacks near Damascus today.
‘It may start to look more attractive for some to deal with the Assad regime, because the U.S. and its allies are not going to deal with Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State directly’.
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