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Russia threatens to close last UN humanitarian aid route to Syria
Russia has also threatened to veto a UN resolution that guarantees the entry of international aid to Syria’s rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces. That would close down the last UN humanitarian aid route into Syria.
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Syria: Kurdish forces say they have recaptured prison attacked by IS
Kurdish fighters say they have taken back control of a prison in Syria, which had earlier been captured by Islamic State militants.
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Syria: The people putting themselves and the environment at risk to keep fuel supplies flowing
In the countryside around Aleppo, basic necessities are in short supply and as winter continues to bite, diesel for generators is in high demand.
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Waad Al-Kateab calls for more accountability on Syria war crimes at UN Security Council address
It’s been more than 10 years since the start of the war in Syria with millions displaced or killed.
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White Helmets left to fight Covid in war-ravaged Syria
If Covid fears have ramped up again in this country, in some parts of the world the older variants are still wreaking havoc.
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Syrians seek solace in ancient tradition of horse racing
In the past 10 years Idlib in North East Syria has become synonymous with war and resistance to the Assad regime.
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Syria: returning home for first time since civil war began
About 100,000 Syrians, out of four million refugees in Turkey, have been allowed temporary rights to visit their homeland during the Eid al-Adha holiday.
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The women struggling to survive in Syria’s widows village
“What is the future for these people?” – the words of the UN after a decade of bitter civil war which has left Syria devastated, with millions of its people forced to flee their homes.
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Denmark offers Syrian refugees money to return home or be put in a deportation centre
Denmark was the first country to sign the UN Refugee Convention in 1951, but it has now become the first European nation to tell Syrian refugees that they must return home. The Scandinavian country has declared Damascus and its surrounding areas safe, stripping nearly 100 Syrian refugees of their residencies and putting hundreds more in…
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UN adviser says decade-long Syrian conflict is failure of international community
We spoke to Jan Egeland, who is chair of the UN senior advisory panel on Syria, and began by asking if he thought after ten years, the situation was now worse than ever.
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Dreaming of a better Syria after being forced to flee
Waad Al-Kateab filmed the brutal siege and destruction of Aleppo for Channel 4 News and her footage became the Oscar nominated film ‘For Sama’. She was forced to flee Syria and she’s been speaking to some of the other 12 million who were also forced from their homes, who hoped for regime change and who…
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Inside a Syrian hospital – amid warnings of Covid “catastrophe”
Covid meets war – that is the grim reality in Syria’s last rebel-held bastion in Idlib province, where hospitals struggle to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients while the intense bombardment by the Syrian regime continues. Channel 4 News filmmaker Fadi Al Halabi has had exclusive access inside the ICU ward of Al Zeraat, one…
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Senior Syrian military official on trial in Germany charged with human rights abuses
A historic trial is taking place in Germany where, for the first time, charges have been brought against a senior Syrian military official who is accused of human rights abuses and the torture of detainees during the Syrian conflict.
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‘I thought I would die’ – meet the Syrian doctor who survived coronavirus by helping to treat himself
A Syrian doctor who escaped from war-torn Syria and who is now working in a UK hospital was hospitalised after contracting Covid-19.
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UN concerned about conditions in Syrian camps amid coronavirus threat
When even the hospitals of wealthy nations are pushed to the brink, what might happen in war-torn Syria?
