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Syria
Survivors of Assad regime’s chemical attacks are demanding justice — and support
7:15
Syria
‘Thank God, the nightmare is over’: A Syrian returns home to Damascus to witness celebration and struggle
8:13
Syria
Syrian prison offers a glimpse into Assad’s brutal rule
5:55
Conflict & Justice
US authorities arrest a former Syrian official in Los Angeles
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A man walks next to heavily damaged buildings and destroyed cars following Russian attacks in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, May 24, 2022.
Ukraine
Ukrainian doctors train for the possibility of a chemical attack from Russia
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad heads a cabinet meeting, in Damascus, Syria
Economics
Report: Syrian government manipulates exchange rates to pocket aid money
A Syrian grocery shop in Istanbul sells brands that are familiar to Syrian customers, such as canned meats and condensed milk.
Migration
Syrian refugees and migrants in Turkey face a difficult decision to return home 
A group of people protest and carry a heart-shaped sign that says "Refugees welcome here."
Migration
Denmark revokes residency permits of some Syrian refugees
Several people are shown preparing meals next to a large pile of rubble and a line of water bottles.
COVID-19
Busy Damascus cemetery points to higher pandemic death toll in Syria
Dr. Amani Ballour treats an injured baby in Feras Fayyad’s documentary “The Cave.”
This doctor treated hundreds in an underground hospital in Syria known as ‘The Cave’
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Baghdadi’s death is a huge blow to ISIS, but history suggests it won’t guarantee a safer world
Portrait of foreign correspondent and author Sam Dagher.
Conflict
How Syria’s Assad regime clings to power
Older women hold a cartoon graphic depicting Donald Trump and a Turkish tank.
Does US withdrawal leave Syria open to Russia?
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Culture
We’re just beginning to grasp the toll of ISIS’ archaeological looting in Syria
A woman walks wearing jeans and a plaid shirt is shown near a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
Conflict & Justice
Syria’s Assad struggles to reap spoils after military gains
Kurdish fighters driving Toyota SUVs with green and yellow flags on top are shown driving in head of US military MRAP vehicles.
US-led coalition says it has started Syria withdrawal
Smoke is shown with red backlighting rising past a mountain range as seen from the Damascus, Syria, countryside.
Syria state media says Israeli planes attack targets near Damascus
Hadi Jasim was an Iraqi translator for the US military. Now he's a "global guide" at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.
Arts, Culture & Media
This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery
man looking out a broken window, surrounded by rubble
Conflict
Russia-Turkey agreement provides inkling of hope to Syrians in Idlib
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Conflict
Latest assault leaves over 30,000 displaced in Syria’s Idlib
A street filled with cars in the rebel-held Idlib city, Syria, shown from above on June 8, 2017.
Conflict & Justice
Trump warns Syria not to ‘recklessly attack’ Idlib province
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Global Politics
Kim Jong-un’s next summits will apparently be with Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad
The Yarmouk Palestinian camp near Damascus, Syria, April 28, 2018.
Conflict
Palestinian refugees bear the brunt of Syria’s new battle against ISIS
Soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad are seen running toward the camera with one carrying the Sryian flag.
Assad renews offensive as missile strikes raise escalation risk
Syrian police hold weapons while they ride in the bed of a pickup truck in Doma.
Conflict
US suggests Russia, Syria may have tampered with Duma evidence, Moscow denies it
A missile is seen crossing over Damascus, Syria, April 14, 2018.
Conflict
US says it’s ready to strike Syria again if there is further use of chemical weapons
View of Ghouta and Al Kiswah farms.
Conflict
Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus
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Conflict
Pro-opposition Syrians in Turkey grapple with losing the war
Hands hold a hose over a child's head and water streams down his hair and face.
Conflict
Chemical attack in Syria grabs Trump’s attention, but he has few options available
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Conflict
Secret flights and private fighters: How Russia supports Assad in Syria
Smoke rises from the besieged Eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, Feb. 27, 2018.
Conflict
Opposing sides in Syria’s punishing civil war ask whether they can ever forgive
A man, center, stands in a back-light doorway looking into a room in rubble.
Conflict
Syrian warplanes strike eastern Ghouta despite Russian truce
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Conflict
In Syria’s war-torn Ghouta district, ‘we are waiting our turn to die’
A man visits a cemetery on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Douma, near Damascus, Syria, Sept. 24, 2015.
Conflict
Syria’s civil war has created a black market for burial plots — and prices are soaring
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaking during a previous interview with Croatian newspaper Vecernji List in Damascus, Syria, April 6.
Conflict
Interview: Syria’s Assad says US ‘fabricated’ chemical attack to justify strikes
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad gestures while parliament members clap in Damascus, Syria on June 7, 2016.
Conflict
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: Rex Tillerson is ‘hallucinating’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks during a meeting of the Central Bar Association in Damascus, Syria, Feb. 15, 2016.
Conflict
#20: @realDonaldTrump Do you support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remaining in power? #100Days100Qs
A satellite image of Syria’s Saydnaya military prison, annotated by Amnesty International, via Google Earth and DigitalGlobe.
Conflict
Amnesty accuses Syria of ‘extermination’ of thousands of prisoners
People walk past a damaged building in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria.
Conflict
A major water crisis in Syria’s capital worsens as fighting continues
People walk near rubble of damaged buildings, in the rebel-held besieged area of Aleppo.
Conflict
Fighting continues to shake Aleppo as the UN envoy pushes truce efforts
Jumana Jaber's project called "Chemo Therapy and Chemical Weapons." The Syrian artist says it juxtaposes her experience with breast cancer in 2006 with the Syrian government's attacks on its people now.
Arts
A Syrian family in New Jersey create art and music that they couldn’t back home
John Sweeney and Azam
Conflict
How we found Azam — the ‘lost’ Syrian refugee boy
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meet at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
Conflict
Putin makes Assad an offer he can’t refuse
A Syrian refugee child who has been living in a tent in Jordan since fleeing her hometown of Idlib.
Conflict
The exodus from Syria has reached ‘almost biblical proportions’
A woman stands inside a Damascus grocery shop beside a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. The text beneath the Syrian leader reads "With you" in Arabic.
Conflict
Middle class residents of Damascus cling to a surreal good life, even with ISIS pounding on the door
UK surgeon David Nott
Conflict
Assad denies dropping barrel bombs, but this doctor was nearly killed by one in Aleppo
A Syrian refugee woman stands near her tent at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 15, 2015.
Conflict
‘They told me they were going to melt me in acid if I continue the work I was doing’
Diana Darke in the courtyard of her house in Damascus, Syria.
Conflict
A British author fights to hang onto her home in Damascus
Syrians voted on Tuesday in an election expected to deliver an overwhelming victory for President Bashar al-Assad but which his opponents have dismissed as a charade.
Conflict & Justice
Why some Syrians see their vote as a choice between barking dogs and baying wolves
A student takes a test in Hama, Syria. Despite the ongoing war, students in many parts of Syria are taking comprehensive exams.
Development & Education
Whoever hears of students being overjoyed to take final exams?
A man sits amid debris after an apparently random air attack by forces loyal to Syria's President Assad in Aleppo earlier this week. The civil war has no end in sight.
Conflict & Justice
Three reasons why Syria’s civil war has no end in sight
Residents wait to receive food aid distributed by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus
Conflict & Justice
Yarmouk is a man-made disaster zone, right inside the Syrian capital of Damascus
UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi addresses a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva.
Conflict & Justice
Syria peace talks in Geneva bring opposing sides face-to-face
Dr. Abbas Khan
Conflict & Justice
There are many questions surrounding the death of a British surgeon in Syria
Buildings covered with snow in Homs
Conflict & Justice
The situation in Syria is awful. And that was before winter arrived
Global Politics
US allies in the Middle East are very nervous about the nuclear deal with Iran
Fouad Faris, 19, sits at his computer in Shrewsbury, MA, video chatting with his sister, Rama, who is in Turkey. Faris wears a neck brace because he is recovering from a biking accident.
Conflict & Justice
A teen who escaped Syria waits for a future in the US
Syrian health workers administer polio vaccination to a girl at a school in Damascus, in this file photo taken by Syria's national news agency SANA in October.
Health & Medicine
Polio adds one more heartbreak to a Syria wracked by war
Global Scan
Can Obama scare the NSA back into line?
Syrian families were allowed to flee rebel-controlled Moadamiya Tuesday, in a rare instance of coordination between the Syrian government and the opposition.
Conflict & Justice
Syrian regime surrounds rebel neighborhoods with a message: surrender or starve