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The Violation Documentation Center says more than 200,000 Syrians have been arrested since the start of the war. Experts say those in regime-operated detention centers are subject to torture — and 11,000 have died.
In a small city near Damascus, water trade on the black market is thriving. But as residents pay high prices for containers that are often contaminated, officials say shortages will continue until winter.
As part of a collaboration between Syria Deeply and Rookie, we’re publishing the memoirs of a teenage girl living in the midst of Syria’s war. Marah, as she’s chosen to be known, lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the seventh in her series of articles.
Patrick Baz oversees the news agency’s photo coverage of the Middle East, including Syria’s three-year-long war. Here, he discusses verifying images and working with local photographers.
We ask Syrians across the country for their views on yesterday’s election, the country’s first multi-candidate poll in more than four decades.
Meet the two (other) candidates running in the presidential election set to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.
Experts say the vote will affect not only the Syrian president but his allies, the opposition and the regime’s standing among global powers.
This week’s presidential elections are the first national vote held in decades. We talk to pro-government and pro-rebel Syrians from across the country, asking who they’re voting for and why.
As the number of female-led households grows in Syria, the LA Times’s Raja Abdulrahim, in Anadan, speaks to widowed women.
Tailors and store owners report a massive increase in sales of military-themed clothing as pro-government civilians don everything from camouflage dresses to generals’ uniforms in support of Assad.
Marah lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the sixth in her series of memoirs of living in the midst of Syria’s war.
In Idlib province, a journalist follows a group of FSA fighters returning from what they say is U.S.-led military instruction.
The province, which has been the site of heavy fighting between extremist factions, faces polio’s wrath 14 years after it last appeared in Syria.
Lauren Wolfe explains why Syria’s mental health problem is getting bigger — and worse.
Analysts attribute the surge in violence to Syria’s June 3 presidential election – specifically, a desire to disrupt it, as rebel forces and opposition groups criticize the poll as a farce.
After almost a month without water and power, she says her family’s lifestyle is “primitive.”.
In a country where team allegiance can run deeper than ethnic, religious and political divisions, many civilians might not have the money to watch next month’s televised World Cup action.
Insights on the state of Syria’s Christian community and damage seen on the overland journey between the capital and other regime-held areas of the country.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
Local Sharia authorities storm a pre-wedding party, detaining revelers who aren’t wearing Islamic dress. The fallout could be widespread in Syria’s ISIS-dominated east.
Across the country, an increasing number of would-be soldiers are ducking Syria’s 21-month mandate. Instead, they’re hiding out – or taking up arms for the opposition.
Is the regime’s offensive in Deraa pegged to an increase in tensions between rebel factions here?
Syrians in the early stages of their careers or finishing up university education have lost critical professional years. Personal dreams are also on hold.
As ISIS pushes further into the oil-rich province, we look at the factors that make it so valuable to the extremist groups battling to control it.
The Saudis appear to have chosen Jamal Maarouf as leader of the Syrian Revolutionaries’ Front by ensuring he remains flush with cash. But money can’t command loyalty forever.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that 10,000 of Syria’s 162,000 estimated total deaths occurred over the last two months. Increased fighting before June 3’s presidential elections, the resurgence of disease and brutal treatment of detainees are largely to blame.
On April 25, large swaths of the capital’s outlying areas, along with several southern provinces, descended into darkness. Who’s behind it? Local residents — and the government — blame extremist rebels.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
What’s it like to cover Syria for a Lebanese newspaper.
Experts say Syria’s internally-displaced refugee crisis is worsening due to a lack of cross-border aid access and the spread of violence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Housing prices and unaffordable tuition – and new demands as family breadwinners – have led to a surge in the number of college dropouts.
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