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This is often lost in photos from Syria’s pre-war history, as a reviewer who was critical of the new “Syria Before the Deluge” exhibit argued recently.I visited the exhibit this week. I’m ...
The taxi pulled up to the curb near Bab Touma, and it was clear, even before it came to a halt, that this place, in the Christian quarter of Damascus and one of the oldest parts of the city, was ...
Before the war, this was one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. Lorenzo Meloni—Magnum Photos Syrian army soldiers at the Roman theatre in Palmyra, Syria, April 1, 2016.
Syria: A Neighborhood’s War. By Leen Zyiad. March 6, 2012 ... “I saw people walking down the street in their pajamas. ... Photograph of the Bab Tudmor neighborhood of Homs by AFP/Getty Images.
In northern Syria, people already displaced by civil war are now suffering from the effects of this week's earthquake. But aid has been unable to reach them.
Homs is one of the first places where Syria's uprising became a full-blown war. In 2012, a reporter told the BBC of government artillery strikes killing children in a section of Homs known as Bab Amr.
People walk inside the Khan al-Shounah market, in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria, on December 11, 2009. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters) There is a unique type of fabric in Aleppo.
Bab-al-Hawa is a lifeline for the opposition-controlled sliver of northeastern Syria, a region that is home to many anti-government fighters and their families who fled their hometowns during the war.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck before dawn 11 days ago, killing more than 38,000 people in Turkey and 5,800 in Syria. It has left millions homeless and sparked a huge relief effort, although ...
Shihabi's smelter is just a fraction of the size of his pre-war operation, which employed 150 people before it was hit in a 2012 air raid. Now it has just 25 workers, and production is down nearly ...
The rebel groups fighting in Syria’s 13-year-long war are a complex patchwork of fighters, focused on battling against different enemies.