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The blindness of war for Syrian refugees

(Al-Jazeera)- Ten-year-old Hala Shaheen is slowly going blind. Before the outbreak of Syria's war, she was receiving successful treatment for retinal detachment - a condition that causes the tissue sending visual messages to the brain to come loose. Regular check-ups and specialist care...

UK 'long way off' Syrian refugee resettlement target

The UK Government has a "long way to go" to successfully meet its target of resettling 20,000 refugees from Syria by 2020, a group of MPs has warned. According to the latest statistics, 4,414 refugees have been resettled so far across the country since former Prime Minister David Cameron...

Two sides of Syria: Damascus and Aleppo

(Al- Monitor)- Lebanon is a country of unsettled scores. Each time I visit the country, I keep seeing and feeling the burdensome legacy of its 15-year civil war, no matter how many years had gone by since it ended in 1990. What would I find in neighboring Syria, as its nearly 6-year-old civil...

Surge in targeted killings of al-Qaida operatives in Syria

The convoy of vehicles was driving on a dirt road in northwestern Syria when the aerial attack by the U.S.-led coalition struck, turning the vehicles into balls of fire and the people inside into unrecognizable charred corpses. Among the eight dead was Khattab al-Qahtani, a senior...