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The unfathomable toll of the Syrian civil war

World / Books & the Arts / How to make sense of the 13-year conflict? Anand Gopal This essay is adapted from Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution (Simon & Schuster).

This war-torn village is fighting to keep Christ’s language alive

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to ...
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They fled Syria's shattering civil war. Now, Syrian refugees in Jordan fear being forced to return

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — As Jordan hosted regional talks this spring aimed at ending Syria’s isolation after more than a decade of civil war, Syrian refugee Suzanne Dabdoob felt a deep pressure in her ...
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Untangling Home Ownership in Syria After a Long War

During the more than decade-long civil war in Syria, millions were displaced in the country and millions more fled abroad as refugees. It’s been almost a year since the war ended and many Syrians are ...
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The scars of displacement: A photojournalist’s raw account of surviving Syria’s civil war

Images of Iran’s streets aflame, with protesters facing off against the security forces of a repressive regime, must reawaken traumatic memories for Loubna Mrie. Her participation in similar protests ...
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Syria may be on brink of new civil war, Rubio says

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that Syria could descend into a new civil war, just days after President Donald ...
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How an Assad-era law is threatening civil society groups in Syria

An old law from Syria's dictatorship is making life tough for human rights and aid organizations there. Is the Syrian interim government holding onto it deliberately, trying to control civil society ...
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Marco Rubio warns Syria ‘weeks’ away from ‘collapse and full-scale civil war of epic proportions’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday that Syria may be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or collapsing altogether. Rubio, who met with top Syrian officials last week ...
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Syria's Civil War Goes Multi-national

What started as an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has become more complicated than ever. Russia and the US are dropping bombs on the same country, and although both are opposed to ...
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War Memory Shapes Attitudes: Why Many Syrians Distrust Iran

Taken together, the accounts reflect a pattern in which personal experience and political judgment are tightly intertwined.
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‘Civil War Of Epic Proportions’: Syria Could Be ‘Weeks’ Away From Implosion Despite Sanctions Relief, Rubio Warns

Syria is potentially “weeks” away from collapse, even though the U.S. recently eased longstanding sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday. The ...