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Night Kidnappings Terrorize Syrians in Masaken Barzeh
“I was dead sure about his voice – that’s when I realized this was an organized kidnapping.”.
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Underage Teens Face Conscription in Assad’s Syrian Army
“My son was only away for four days before he was killed. He was supposed to be in a training camp for at least six months.”.
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Around Damascus, Residents Adapt or Flee a Life Shaped by War
Civilians like Abu Mohammed – a teacher whose commute is now a four-hour round trip – now feel the conflict drawing near.
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In Zabadani, a Cement Worker Becomes a City’s Only Paramedic
In a pickup truck, walkie-talkie in hand, Abu Nidal patrols his Damascus province city, transporting victims to its only working field hospital.
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A Soldier’s 12-Hour Walk to Lebanon with an Injured Leg
In search of better medical care, an FSA soldier makes a 12-hour journey on foot to the Bekaa valley.
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Far From Yarmouk, Economic Hardship for A Palestinian Patriarch
JDEIDET ARTOUZ—Abu Nidal, 65, is not used to rising early in the morning to the sound of a ringing phone.
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Twice Raped in Syrian Prisons
DAMASCUS – Last December, Alaa was laid down on an interrogator’s bed, her hands tied and her legs spread apart.
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Playing an Oud, a Bard of the Revolution
BASRA AL-SHAM, DARAA — Maan, a Syrian musician, was turned back at the Jordanian border in April 2011 after an arduous journey from his hometown of Basra al-Sham.
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Reflections on Christmas in Damascus
DAMASCUS COUNTRYSIDE — “Why doesn’t Santa Claus come to our neighborhood and give us presents?” asks Sarah, a nine-year-old resident of Jdaidet Artouz in rural Damascus.
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Hungry for Bread in Yarmouk Camp
DAMASCUS — The tobacco seller at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp here is used to the daily pranks of 10-year-old resident Nidal.
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In Hama, A Paramedic Turned Paraplegic
EHSIM, IDLIB — Khaled, who uses a wheelchair, remembers how his daughters used to ask him for piggyback rides around their house. That was before he lost his feet to shrapnel.
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Is Malnutrition Syria’s Next Epidemic?
EHSIM, IDLIB PROVINCE — A five-minute delay on the walk over was just enough time for Um Abed, a 38-year-old widow, to lose her usual spot in her town’s long milk line. Everyone here is desperate for milk from the town’s only living cow.