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Syrian civil war

In this Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter from Shams al-Shamal heads to the front line in Kobani, Syria. 
Critical State
Random rules: Part II
Syrian children who are refugees in Turkey face many barriers to learning.
Refugees
In Turkey, refugee children face hurdles to school enrollment
people at gas pump
Protest
Renewed calls in Syria to overthrow Assad regime
a soldier in front of a prison
Military
Turkey eyes a new military operation in northern Syria, leaving people in the area on edge
Firefighters hose down a burning building after bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 3, 2022. Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another. Those moves are part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline even as Mosco
Ukraine
For many Syrians, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine feels painfully familiar
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 
Faeza Satouf, from Syria, looks at a photo of her graduation day on her phone during an interview in Nivaa, Denmark, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. 
Critical State
Family in conflict: Part II
People wearing masks stand in front of white bags of food aid
Conflict & Justice
Russia’s vote at UN could cut off humanitarian aid to northwest Syria
Temporary cast of Jad's legs at the workshop at the NSPPL center in Reyhanli, Turkey. Specialists will use these to make the permanent braces that will help Jad walk.
Syrians on the border
A decade of war has devastated Syria’s health care system
Salim Abdul Ghani helped start the Rainbow Center in the Akyol neighborhood in Gaziantep, Turkey, to help Syrian youth stay off the streets.
Syrians on the border
This center in Turkey was a refuge for Syrian youth. The pandemic shut it down.
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
An internally displaced Syrian girl wears a face mask as members of the Syrian Civil defence sanitize the Bab al-Nour internally displaced persons camp, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Azaz, Syria, March 26, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
People in northeast Syria are in desperate need of help. Aid groups can’t get to them.
Syrian defendant Eyad A. hides himself under his hood prior to the first trial of suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services for crimes against humanity, in Koblenz, Germany, April 23, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
Syrian officials on trial for war crimes in Germany
A Syrian refugee man works at a bakery in Gaziantep, Turkey, May 16, 2016.
Displacement
The world closed its doors to Syrian refugees. Now Turkey wants to send them back. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, during their joint news conference following Russian-Turkish talks in the Black sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on October 22, 2019.
Conflict & Justice
Turkish diplomat: Syria deal ‘huge step’ for Turkish national security
Displaced Kurds stuck at a border after a Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, wait to try cross to the Iraqi side, at the Semalka crossing, next Derik city, Syria, on Oct. 21, 2019.
Civilians in northern Syria prepare for the worst
A woman in a headscarf looks at the camera as she puts a baby in a stroller
Gender
Deportation to Syria could mean death for women, children and LGBTQ refugees in Turkey
US Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sit around a table with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey agrees with US to pause Syria assault while Kurds withdraw
Syria
Can Turkey resettle 1 million Syrians in an 18-mile wide ‘safe zone’?
US and Turkish military forces conduct a joint ground patrol inside the security mechanism area in northeast, Syria, October 4, 2019.
Military
US pullout from Syria could bring ‘another rise of ISIS’ researcher says
Wreckage smolders with black smoke after an apparent airstrike
Displacement
As fighting intensifies in Idlib, about 3 million civilians are at risk
A satellite view of Sednaya prison complex near Damascus, Syria, May 15, 2017.
‘We have suffered enough,’ say families of the missing and detained in Syria
A man plays with his daughters in their living room.
Immigration
Settled but unsettled: 4 years on, a Syrian refugee family still torn by US policy
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Culture
We’re just beginning to grasp the toll of ISIS’ archaeological looting in Syria
A family portrait with several younger children in the front row and adults in the back row.
Migration
Torn apart by the Syrian war, these siblings struggle to stay connected across 6 different countries
Syrian children
Conflict & Justice
For Syrian refugee children in Turkey, a ‘home with dignity’ is hard to find
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
Destroyed buildings, cars, and people and are seen from across the street in Aleppo's old town.
8 years after Syria’s first protests, one Syrian says ‘we really just wanted freedom’
Civilians walk in a line in the desert.
ISIS militants continue to surrender, but US military warns of a resurgence
A woman crouches down and scrubs a large Persian rug in the desert.
Conflict
Blame game over aid leaves Syrian refugees stranded in desert ‘death’ camp
Black plumes of smoke are shown rising up and to the left of the photo with bombed out buildings below in Baghouz, Syria.
Conflict & Justice
Some ISIS jihadists surrender in eastern Syria but an unknown number remain
The grave of Russian private military contractor Sergei Gancherov is shown adorned with flowers and his photograph on a cross.
Conflict & Justice
After a deadly Syrian battle, evidence of Russian losses was obscured
A Syrian national flag flutters next to ISIS slogan
Conflict
As US declares victory over ISIS, a withdrawal from Syria proves perilous
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
A middle-aged man stands at a podium with the Turkish and Iranian flag behind him.
Turkey to delay Syria operation as ISIS mounts attack
women stand in a row, chanting and clapping their hands
Syrian Kurds left behind as Trump pulls out US troops
Three Syrian medical staff wear gas masks in a chemical weapons attack training.
Conflict
Syria may be using chemical weapons against its citizens again — here’s how international law has changed to help countries intervene
a child plays at a camp in Idlib, Syria
US Diplomacy
Is US policy in Syria driven by politics or emotion?
man looking out a broken window, surrounded by rubble
Conflict
Russia-Turkey agreement provides inkling of hope to Syrians in Idlib
displaced syrians at refugee camp
Conflict
Latest assault leaves over 30,000 displaced in Syria’s Idlib
syrian food served in turkey
Conflict & Justice
Syrian revolution changed how women are viewed in the workplace
bombs explode in Syria
Conflict
Syrian military extends southwest assault, thousands displaced
Men in camouflague fatigues walk down a street lined with rubble from destroyed buildings.
Global Satire
With an iPhone and the internet, this Syrian satirist is having conversations his countrymen can’t
Missile fire is seen in a yellow streak across the night sky over Daraa, Syria.
Israel launched a massive strike against Iranian targets in Syria
Residents and members of the Syrian Civil Defense, or "White Helmets," look for survivors at a damaged site after what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Sy
Conflict
Trump freezes funding for ‘White Helmet’ volunteers as part of larger cut to Syrian aid
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
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
Thousands of civilians flee besieged rebel positions in Syria
aleppo
Conflict
Foreign policy and fragile states: A town hall discussion
Children watch as an aid convoy of Syrian Arab Red Crescent drives through the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria March 5, 2018.
Conflict
Aid reaches Ghouta but retreats after shelling; Syria continues air and ground attack
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 holds a child after an airstrike in eastern Ghouta, Syria, Feb. 7, 2018. In the Damascus suburb, besieged by government forces since 2013, about 78 civilians were killed by airstrikes and artillery fire on Tuesday, according to monitors. A further 2
Conflict
Syria’s war enters a dangerous new phase
A girl is seen in an ambulance during medical evacuation from eastern Ghouta late Tuesday.
Conflict
Children with cancer among patients evacuated from besieged Syrian district
Members of the Druze community watch the fighting in Syria's civil war, next to the border fence between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, June 16, 2015.
Conflict
Druze in the Golan Heights have long been ‘on the fence’ between Syria and Israel. Syria’s civil war has changed things.
Macer Gifford, a British volunteer who joined the Kurds in the fight against ISIS in Syria.
Conflict
British volunteers in Syria took on ISIS. Now they face possible arrest back home.
Syrian Democratic Forces fighters dance along a street in Raqqa, Syria, on Oct. 18, 2017.
Conflict
Raqqa liberated from ISIS: ‘My city is now ruined and burned down’