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The rescue of a baby reveals the incredible toll on those who save lives in...
Dropping his head, the rescue worker is inconsolable as he closes his eyes and appeals to God. Apparently filmed Thursday in Syria’s rebel-held city of Idlib, the man clutches a baby, her wispy hair...
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Underground schools reopen as bombs fall on east Aleppo
Five years of war have brought a new curriculum to eastern Aleppo’s schoolchildren. “My 8-year-old son knows all the weapons. He hears the sounds and says, ‘Dad, that was a barrel bomb. Dad, that was...
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Trump and Pence’s opposition to Syrian refugees is based on a huge lie
For the past year, right-wing American politicians have grandstanded over the supposed threat of Syrian refugees. Candidates in the Republican presidential primaries and GOP governors all declared...
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Russia has its permanent air base in Syria. Now it’s looking at Cuba and...
Russia ratified a treaty with Syria on Friday that gives Moscow its first permanent air base in the Middle East, a symbol of the Kremlin's desire to project strength overseas, as Russian officials...
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People are fleeing ISIS rule. Syrian rebels appear to be jailing some of them.
The ISIS caliphate is crumbling, and a Syrian rebel group has jailed some of them
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The ISIS apocalypse has been postponed but the militants might still believe...
To the Islamic State, the town of Dabiq in northern Syria was never of real strategic significance. And yet, symbolically, there were few places that were deemed more influential by the group's own...
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What a Syrian PR trip says about Bashar al-Assad’s thinking
A rare trip to the Syrian capital shows another side to the country's war.
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How Aleppo’s dwindling network of hospitals is adapting under the bombs
BEIRUT -- These days, hospitals feel like the most dangerous places to be in east Aleppo, doctors say. Throughout the city’s rebel-held districts, medical facilities are in the Syrian government’s...
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The battle for Aleppo, explained
BEIRUT — Syrian and Russian forces are engaged in an all-out blitz to retake the eastern districts of Aleppo, the northern Syrian city that has become a major flash point in the country's five-year...
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In Syria’s Aleppo, there’s no way of counting the dead
BEIRUT — It's too dangerous to bury east Aleppo’s dead in the daylight. So when night falls, an imam slips out to the latest mass grave, conducting the briskest of rites and thanking God that the...
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‘We are alone’: The voices of besieged rebel-held Aleppo
BEIRUT — As Syrian forces prepare to retake Aleppo’s final rebel footholds, tens of thousands of civilians are caught in the crossfire. The city’s eastern districts — which President Bashar al-Assad’s...
View ArticleRussian drone shows extent of the damage to Palmyra’s Roman amphitheater
MOSCOW — The Russian Ministry of Defense on Monday released new video footage shot from a drone showing the partial destruction of the ancient Roman amphitheater in Palmyra, and warned that the...
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As the dust on an information war settles, the truth about the battle for Aleppo
The images broadcast from the Syrian city of Aleppo during the government's final push for control last year seemed to tell a clear story: A little boy in an ambulance, caked in dust and too stunned...
View ArticleHow the Oscars put Syria in the spotlight
BEIRUT — Sitting 7,000 miles from the fuss and frills of Sunday's Academy Awards, it was Raed Saleh, dressed in a simple T-shirt, who delivered one of the most powerful messages of the night. In a...
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Syria strike adds awkward twist to high-stakes China-U.S. summit
BEIJING — The Donald Trump-Xi Jinping summit was off to a good start: Xi nailed the handshake. Trump cracked a self-deprecating joke. And they dined on pan-seared Dover sole with champagne sauce and...
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On World Refugee Day, 5 correspondents reveal what it’s like to cover the crisis
World Refugee Day is observed each year on June 20. On this day, refugee advocates urge people to focus on the plight of those who have been displaced by famine, war and oppression. By the end of...
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How war brought cholera and polio back to the Middle East
BEIRUT — As war ravages public health systems in Yemen and Syria, doctors are treating epidemics and diseases they once thought were things of the past. In Yemen, it is cholera, a bacterial disease...
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