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Displaced Syrians start new year in abandoned prison
IDLIB: Children play in a prison courtyard, while adults divide a cell inside between several families. Fleeing violence in northwest Syria, they found nowhere else to go. They are among hundreds of thousands…
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Displaced Syrian grows mushrooms to feed family
Nasrallah (L) and his son Saeed harvest mushrooms in the darkened room they use to grow the fungi in a camp in the town of Haarem in northwestern Idlib province in November.…
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Displaced Syrian grows mushrooms to feed family
HAREEM: In a camp for the displaced in northern Syria, Nasrallah scatters mushroom spores into a bag of wet hay, hoping they will sprout and feed his family. “Mushrooms have become the…
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Around 200 displaced Syrians leave Al-Hol camp: Kurds
QAMISHLI: Around 200 Syrian displaced people, mostly women and children, were heading home from an overcrowded desert camp in the northeast of the war-torn country on Sunday, a Kurdish official said. Syria‘s…
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No longer safe in bombed-out camp, say displaced Syrians
QAH: Abu Mahmoud thought he and his family had found relative safety from Syria‘s war, but then rocket fire pounded their camp in the night, killing 16 civilians. On Thursday morning, his brother’s…
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Turkey: 200 Syrians returned to area cleared of Kurd militia
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s defence ministry said Thursday that around 200 Syrians had returned to their homes after its offensive against Kurdish militants last month, with another 300 on the way. “Close to 200…
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US says 128,000 Syrians subject to arbitrary detention
UNITED NATIONS: The United States said Monday nearly 128,000 people face arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and called for their release. “This practice is unacceptable,” US Ambassador Kelly Craft told the…
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Jordan says 153,000 Syrians returned home since October
AMMAN: Around 153,000 Syrians have returned to their country from Jordan since the reopening of a key border post last October, the interior ministry said Tuesday. Of the 153,000 who returned via…
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Idlib chaos forces displaced Syrians into strange dwellings
Birat Armanaz: Inside a rusty, abandoned bus in northwestern Syria, Umm Joumaa washes a silver tray and glass teacups, light pouring into her makeshift kitchen through broken windows. Around her, towels, bedsheets, clothes…
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Aid sent to displaced Syrians near Jordan border: UN
DAMASCUS: The United Nations said Friday it had sent aid to thousands of displaced Syrians living in an isolated desert camp near the Jordanian border, the first such delivery since February. The…
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Turkish guards fire in air, stop protesting Syrians border: AFP
Turkish border guards Friday fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse hundreds of Syrian protesters demanding Ankara help stop a deadly Damascus regime offensive in northwestern Syria, an AFP reporter said. The…
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No clothes for Eid: Near Turkey, displaced Syrians spend first homeless Ramadan
Atme: Outside her makeshift tent, Syrian mother Mona Mutayr lays out a frugal meal of potatoes and cucumber as her family marks their first Ramadan since being displaced by war. The holy…
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Russia opens two humanitarian corridors to evacuate besieged Syrians
Homs [Syria]: In an efforts to secure the return of the besieged Syrian civilians, Russia opened two humanitarian corridors to evacuate the displaced people in al-Rukban Camp in al Tanf area of…
