A Syrian refugee holds up a sign with a portrait of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, during a protest outside the headquarters of the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, demanding to be moved out of Lebanon, in September 2020.
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As countries around the world develop their own private sponsorship systems, they should acknowledge how elusive refugee status can be. Policy-makers should proceed accordingly.
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After years of civil war, the Syrian people are now suffering from the coronavirus pandemic and a crashing economy. And there is no end in sight.
A cutting edge new research project is developing Lego-like bricks made from biomaterials to replace bone fragments in shattered limbs.
Displaced Syrians learn about the danger of the coronavirus to them in their camps.
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Everyone in Syria is fighting a slightly different war from everyone else, there are outsiders with their own goals – and the coronavirus is about to make everything much worse.
A Turkish military convoy in Idlib, northern Syria.
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Turkey is a NATO member but that doesn’t mean its NATO allies will come to its support in Syria.
Syrians board a dinghy bound for Greece.
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The war in Syria has reached a crisis point, with close to 400,000 deaths and more than 11 million people displaced.
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War is expensive, and the Iranian leadership may now face increased pressure to withdraw from its involvement in the Syrian conflict.
Rescuers search for survivors after an airstrike in Idlib in mid January.
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As Syrian forces bombard the opposition enclave of Idlib, Turkey lacks an ongoing strategy.
The Great Mosque of Aleppo, Syria, was destroyed in December 2016.
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The destruction of a country’s historical and cultural heritage sites is a distressing byproduct of conflict, but there are now strategies in place to prevent it happening.
A B-61 bomb, like the ones stored at the US Incirlik Airbase in Turkey.
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The US has 50 nuclear bombs stored in Turkey. As tensions rise between the two countries, a look at how they got there and what might happen next.
Kurdish fighters in Syria say the U.S. is abandoning its allies and potentially empowering the Islamic State by withdrawing from northeastern Syria and allowing a Turkish assault, Oct. 7, 2019.
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Since defending northern Syria from the Islamic State, Kurdish people have established an egalitarian society where women are equal, democracy is direct and religious freedom is guaranteed.
An Islamic State photo purports to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in 2015.
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Armed conflict in Syria has been a disaster for the area’s cultural heritage. A displaced archaeologist describes what’s being lost.
Fatima, a nine-year-old Syrian refugee to Sweden, is featured in photojournalist Magnus Wennman’s documentary film Fatima’s Drawings.
Magnus Wennman
As ‘tiny historians of their age,’ children with testimonies of war provide teachers with both historical insight and critical instruction.
A Syrian refugee child sits on the window of his family’s trailer home painted by refugee artists in a camp near Mafraq, Jordan.
AP/Raad Adayleh
The revolution begun by Syrians exactly eight years ago has been won – by the murderous leader they rebelled against. But the struggle for freedom, dignity and justice Syrians launched is not over.
Russia, Turkey, Iran and Israel will keep vying for power in Syria long after the US is gone.
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Now that the US has pulled out Syria, is the war actually over?
Lina Fadel and her son in Edinburgh. The Syrian academic first came to the UK as a student.
Donna Green
Achieving a genuine sense of belonging in a new country takes a lot more than a naturalisation certificate.
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Europe needs to rethink its priorities on Syria – fast.
Destruction in Homs.
Majd Murad
Work to preserve the country’s heritage is already happening.
Syrian airstrike survivors.
EPA/Yahya Nemah
Warning Syrians of approaching airstrikes via social media is helping save lives.
A White Helmet volunteer holds a pigeon as a symbol of peace during a solidarity protest in al-Ghouta, Syria, in August 2017.
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Smear campaigns against humanitarian volunteers in war zones are nothing new.