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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on April 5, 2014 shows smoke billowing from buildings following reported shelling by rebel fighters in the al-Itfaia neighborhood of the capital Damascus. (AFP /HO/SANA)
Life in Limbo
For the past three years, millions of Syrians have been living in hellish conditions, either inside the country’s warzones or as refugees. But there are upwards of 15 million more inside Syria who live away from the frontlines and for whom life today is a never-ending...Caption:
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad, left, visiting the Dweir shelter for the displaced people in the industrial city of Adra, northeast of the capital Damascus, on March 12, 2014. (AFP Photo/HO/SANA)
Opinion: Assad, Face-to-Face with his Victims
The grandmother pulled the hand of the crying little girl who stood staring in front of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. We heard the girl say she did not know anything about the fate of her mother and siblings as she wept. We did not know who the little girl was,...Caption:
Nuns who were among a group freed after being held hostage by Islamist rebels in Syria, pray during a mass to celebrate their release at the Church of the Holy Cross in Damascus, on March 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)
Syria: Confusion remains over Maaloula nuns deal
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The internationally mediated deal that saw thirteen Lebanese and Syrian nuns freed in exchange for the reported release of over 150 women and children detained by the Syrian government continues to arouse confusion and controversy in the...Caption:
People walk in a street where building are damaged on February 21, 2014 on the key rebel-held bastion of Yabroud north of Damascus, as clashes also raged on the capital’s outskirts. (AFP PHOTO / ALI DIAB)