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Thousands of Syrians have lost limbs during the country’s three-year conflict. In the Damascus suburbs, two men have opened a workshop where functioning prosthetics are fashioned out of found materials.
Children in Syria’s capital are increasingly left parentless, or dropped by the side of the road by parents who can no longer afford to provide for them.
A medical watchdog group says government forces are responsible for 90 percent of the attacks, with opposition groups contributing.
Marah lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the fifth in her series of memoirs of living in the midst of Syria’s war.
We look at what it will take to refer Assad’s government to the Hague, and the case being built around it at the U.N. Security Council.
The U.N.’s Syria envoy has resigned, leaving doubts about the continuation of efforts for a negotiated peace in the country.
Fighting between extremist factions in eastern Deir Ezzor province has escalated this week, killing dozens of rebels and forcing residents to flee. At stake is control of a large number of Syria’s oil fields, and economic supremacy on the eastern front.
Chlorine gas bombs appear to have been dropped in three towns in northern Syria, raising questions about whether their use constitutes a violation of international law.
Housing prices and unaffordable tuition – and new demands as family breadwinners – have led to a surge in the number of college dropouts.
As tensions increase in the south between the Free Syrian Army and Jabhat al-Nusra, Assad focuses on the north, where an increased number of high-profile bombings have attracted international attention.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
Though falling short of formal diplomatic recognition, the move could improve both the SNC’s standing in the capital and its communication with the White House.
With resources dwindling and bakery lines stretching, middlemen have begun buying bread in bulk and hawking it outside many of the country’s remaining bakeries - for double and triple the price.
Marah lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the third in her series of memoirs of living in the midst of Syria’s war.
Negotiations for Ahmed Nehmeh’s release could have far-ranging consequences for both groups in Deraa.
Rebel commanders and tribal leaders on Syria’s southern front are negotiating with Al Qaida affiliated Jabhat Al Nusra. Is it enough?
Despite relative calm after months of heavy fighting, Syrians returning home to this Damascus suburb are finding their homes in need of repairs often too pricey to take on alone.
Afraq, in the Jordanian desert, will alleviate the flood of Syrians into Zaatari. Officials in the country say it’s about time — but that the camp’s far-out location could stymie the growth of its economy.
Photos reportedly show bodies hung from crosses in a Raqqa square. Is the extremist group tightening its iron grip on the city?
Syrian children are leaving school for the workforce in greater numbers. The government says there has been a 30 percent drop in attendance countrywide since the start of the war.
A new documentary tells the city’s story from seven points of view. Its filmmakers posit that it’s changed the way we look at the civilian experience.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
Providing hospital transport and digging bodies out of the rubble, Syria’s organized volunteers seek to pick up where the government and opposition officials left off.
Ankara, which has spent $3 billion on Syria’s conflict so far, might need to create an education, employment and residential infrastructure for the more than 1 million Syrians who have crossed its border.
Marah lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the third in her series of memoirs of living in the midst of Syria’s war.
In besieged areas of the city, residents have created wartime recipes including a dough made of seeds and dishes that use birds instead of meat.
Meet the organization helping Syrian artists in Lebanon traverse Beirut’s burgeoning arts scene while maintaining their identity.
Painting a portrait of life in today’s Aleppo.
The government has been accused of cutting Aleppo’s power supply as a way to get the opposition to bend. Now, local residents say the opposition is doing the same.
The U.N. and lawyers are making a case for aid deliveries that don’t require the go-ahead from Assad’s government.
With tourism and investment at a standstill and unemployment on the rise, we look at the factors contributing to the Syrian economy’s collapse, and how big a factor Assad’s international allies have been in keeping his government afloat.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
Meet the young Syrians seeking to create a bridge between Syrian and Turkish culture - and to provide safe haven for their country’s exiled artists.
Syrian opposition sources says rebels are only agreeing to regime-led local cease-fires because the alternative is starvation.
With costs of basic goods skyrocketing, many are turning to a network of so-called agents who will buy hard-to-find products in cities like Damascus and deliver them to other parts of the country.
In a pickup truck, walkie-talkie in hand, Abu Nidal patrols his Damascus province city, transporting victims to its only working field hospital.
Marah, a teenage girl living in one of Syria’s besieged cities, shares her stories from life in war. She dreams of getting an education, despite the ongoing violence that has destroyed local schools, and checkpoints that have made the commute to school nearly impossible.
Working in Aleppo province since the start of the conflict, one doctor says the number of injuries increased exponentially after a government barrel bomb offensive began there in December.
With Syrian elections slated for June 3, we survey pro-government, pro-opposition and “third party” voters in the Alawite stronghold.
As Syria’s medical infrastructure implodes, sufferers of chronic illness struggle to find regular treatment. Meet Sana, a young Damascene living with a rare skin disease, and her father, who struggles to provide the care she needs.
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