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From their earliest days posting videos to YouTube, a number of Syrians have made their name as citizen journalists, their work appearing across international media, their stories redefining what it means to be an iReporter. .
Since mid August, more than 60,000 Syrians have fled to Iraqi Kurdistan. Many have faced a long walk through sweltering heat from Damascus or Aleppo, with growing numbers coming from Al Hassaka governorate, in northeastern Syria, following increased fighting in the area.
This story was originally published in last week’s issue of VICE, based on the reporter’s trip to Raqqa in September 2013. .
At an event last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) officially released the Emergency Red List of Syrian Cultural Objects at Risk.
Thousands of people are missing in Syria, their whereabouts unknown.
Syrian rebels in Damascus say they hope to unify rebel factions under the command of the new “Army of Islam,” arguably the largest armed opposition alliance formed during the conflict. .
In the wake of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting, Syrian state media showed the Assad government’s confidence.
Dr. A. Oussama Rifai, an Aleppo-born, U.S.-based nephrologist, speaks from a field hospital in Aleppo, nicknamed M-10 for security purposes.
Breaking a two and a half year deadlock, the U.N. Security Council unanimously backed a Syria resolution governing the handover and disposal of Syria’s chemical weapons.
In January 2012, Syria Conflict Monitor (SCM)’s five-person team began cataloguing the thousands of Free Syrian Army (FSA) videos used for recruitment purposes that were being downloaded to the Internet. .
Nada, a teacher, starts her classes by asking her third-grade students to express their feelings. She is trained to deal with children who exhibit signs of trauma after living in a war zone for over two years.
Free Syrian Army fighter Abu Ali stood grinning and waving at me with his right hand. Two of his middle fingers were missing.
At the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, speeches by leaders from Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and Lebanon tackled the crisis in Syria.
The al- Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), known colloquially by its Arabic acronym, ‘Daesh,’ has earned the disdain of Syrian civilians for its brutal practices and hard-line ideology.
Old Homs is nearing 500 days of a siege, with no supply route in or out. Medical equipment and supplies are nearly impossible to find.
Ahmed shares his stories from running Radio Alwan, a talk radio station in the Syrian city of Saraqeb. .
The porous border between Turkey and Syria has become increasingly dangerous. This month, the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took control of the city of Azaz, near Turkey, and began working its way towards the border.
The diplomatic moves around Syria last week were preparation for the debate on Syria this week, as the U.N. General Assembly convenes in New York.
On Thursday, Raqqa’s Free Syrian Army (FSA) Division 11 raised a new flag: the black banner of the jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra.
UNICEF released this dispatch today, highlighting the state of children fleeing Syria’s war. We’ve decided to share the statement in full. .
This is the first in a series co-produced by Syria Deeply and Hyperallergic, investigating the visual and cultural responses to the crisis in Syria.
Marjie Middleton, a midwife working with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), spent several months this year on the Syria-Lebanon border. “I was there because MSF recognized that women’s health wasn’t being dealt with appropriately or not at all in the refugee situation,” she said.
Fatima, a 64-year-old grandmother from Hasakeh, remembers when the first electricity connection came to this city. The artificial light was exciting, a novelty.
Al-Waer is the largest district in Homs, home to tens of thousands of displaced people. Today, it is increasingly isolated from the rest of the city, surrounded by the army, island-like. Residents like this humanitarian volunteer, who asked to remain anonymous, are fearful of what is to come. .
Dusty and sweaty, three Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU) workers emerge from the Turkish-Syrian border at Cilvegözü, near Reyhanli.
As the U.S. and Russia made a deal to secure Syria’s chemical weapons supplies, life continued as usual for Syrians on the ground.
The U.N. has released its findings from its report on Missions to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons. The report confirmed chemical weapons had been used in Syria, though it did not assign blame to any party.
Khalid is from Darayya, a rebel-held city on the outskirts of Damascus. He spoke about his work on the Local Administration Council, a committee that has built a new civic order in a city that now runs itself, without the government of President Bashar al-Assad. .
Yazan al-Homsy had almost completed his master’s degree when the Syrian revolution began. He would later become trapped in the besieged area of Homs, spending his days photographing daily life and scavenging for food to share with his neighbors. .
A week that started with a march toward war, that melted in the heat of U.S. politics, that morphed into high-level diplomacy, ended with a U.S.-Russian deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons.
As summer ends and the school year begins, the Local Council of Aleppo, elected by residents in rebel-held areas of the city, is finding ways to schedule classes – sometimes held in tents, with students and teachers working through power cuts that can last up to 11 hours per day.
Russia’s proposal to defuse the crisis over Syrian chemical weapons was an unexpected move, at a moment of tense international diplomacy.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says 100,000 deaths in Syria are a “stain on the world’s conscience” and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon admitted that his organization failed to stop Syria’s war from escalating.
There was no mistaking the young man hobbling towards a local Free Syrian Army checkpoint in the village of Ayn Aasan for anything but an Assad soldier.
Human Rights Watch’s Lebanon researcher Lama Fakih has been monitoring the humanitarian situation in Syria since the start of the conflict. She recently returned from a trip to government-held areas of the country, where she asked civilians about their lives before and after the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack on eastern Ghouta, near Damascus. .
As the medical crisis in Syria intensifies, organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières still have field staff operating in the hardest-hit areas of the country. Dr. Michel Janssens, medical coordinator for MSF France, spent 40 days there this summer. .
On Tuesday, Syria Deeply’s Lara Setrakian held a Google Hangout with Secretary of State John Kerry, co-hosted by Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times.
Bashar al-Assad has agreed to a Russian proposal to hand over his stockpile of chemical weapons.The move comes on the same day that President Barack Obama will give an address on the potential for U.S. involvement in Syria.
Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s address to the U.S. public, Syria Deeply’s Executive Editor Lara Setrakian spoke to Ambassador Fred Hof, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former special advisor to Obama on Syria.
On the side of the highway in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, Mohammed, a 14-year-old Syrian boy, sells baby chickens. Dyed neon, they wait in a cage for new owners. They are only 500 Lebanese Lira ($0.33), commonly purchased as gifts for young children.
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