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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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10 years of hell: Is the dream of a different Syria still alive?
In today’s Fourcast, Waad and Hamza Al-Kateab describe the defining moments of the revolution through their eyes and discuss whether the dream of a different Syria is still alive after ten years of war.
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2021: Former Syrian official convicted by German court in first case of its kind
Today, a German court found a former member of President Assad’s secret police guilty of facilitating the torture of prisoners.
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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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Orphaned by the Syrian war – now fighting poverty and coronavirus
A fragile ceasefire in Syria may have briefly halted the war, but the orphans left behind by nine years of conflict face a new struggle.
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Governments pledge billions of dollars in aid for Syria
As if it couldn’t get any worse for the people of Syria, they now have Covid-19 and an economic collapse to add to the woes created by nine years of civil war. Now, international donors have pledged $7.7 billion at a virtual fundraising conference to support its troubled economy, which has seen food prices jump…
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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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Syria torture trial opens in Germany
Earlier Jon Snow spoke to the Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish who was at today’s proceedings.
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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.
