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50 civilians killed in Syria’s Idlib since Jan. 12

Dozens of civilians have lost their lives in Syria’s Idlib and tens of thousands of others have been displaced since Jan. 12, as the regime forces and its allies continued to violate cease-fire. According to data obtained from the country’s Response Coordination Group, the Assad regime...

Russian air strikes in Idlib kill 12 civilians: monitor

Russian air strikes killed 12 civilians Tuesday in northwestern Syria, as renewed violence tightened the noose around the country's last major opposition bastion and deepened an already dire humanitarian crisis. Two of the victims were killed in a southern area of Idlib province while the...

Finding Freedom in a Syria of Ever Fewer Men

The women of eastern Aleppo were rarely visible before the war, but now they shape the bitter peace. In the poor, conservative districts of Syria’s ancient commercial capital, many women seldom used to leave the house, and only with their husbands if they did; the men not only won the bread,...

Syrian regime struggles to stop currency freefall

  Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has taken emergency steps to try to halt a dramatic fall of the local currency, forbidding the use of money other than Syrian pounds for transactions with the threat of prison and hard labour. The once-resilient Syrian pound has halved...