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Sudanese Volunteer Rescues Refugees on Floating Barrels

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 3, 2017 | Middle East

A Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer crossed the valleys of the Rudum area of ​South Darfur to rescue war refugees from southern Sudan, using a floating bridge made of barrels. Imad Abu Hala did not hesitate to leave his car, rent a carriage, and walk for two days to...

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A Civil Defence member carries a damaged canister in Ibleen village from what activists said was a chlorine gas attack, on Kansafra, Ibleen and Josef villages, Idlib countryside, Syria May 3, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Kontar/File Photo

‘Gassing’ Syrians Is Overshadowed by Considerations of “The Eastern Question”

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Apr 5, 2017 | Opinion

Washington graciously ‘reassured’ us the other day that the fate of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad is no longer a United States priority in dealing with the ongoing tragedy there. This message was conveyed by not one, but two foreign policy authorities, Secretary of State...

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A view shows the damage at a Syrian Arab Red Crescent centre after it was hit at dawn by an airstrike in the rebel-held Idlib City, Syria February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah

Air Raids Hit Red Crescent Offices in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 1, 2017 | Middle East

Air strikes hit Syrian Red Crescent offices in the northwestern city of Idlib after midnight on Wednesday, injuring several staff and causing extensive damage, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Among those wounded in Wednesday’s raid was the...

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Damaged Red Cross and Red Crescent medical supplies lie inside a warehouse after an airstrike on western Aleppo, September 20, 2016/ Reuters-Ammar Abdullah

Syria’s Ceasefire Awaits ‘Death Certificate’ as International Community Lashes out at its Sponsors

by Nazeer Rida and Heba El-Koudsy | Sep 21, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut, New York-The U.S.-Russian ceasefire deal on Syria awaits to be announced as officially dead after violence resumed in the country when an aid vehicle of the Syrian Red Crescent was attacked in the countryside of west Aleppo, killing civilians and an official...

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WHO for Asharq Al-Awsat: No Vaccine for Zika Yet!

WHO for Asharq Al-Awsat: No Vaccine for Zika Yet!

by Raneem Hanoush and Nayef al-Rasheed | Feb 3, 2016 | World

WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told Asharq Al-Awsat that the surge in the number of microcephaly cases and the Zika virus may just be coincidental in terms of time and place. He cautioned, however, that experts are not ruling anything out. “One of the curiosities...