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COVID-19: A Ticking Time Bomb in Northern Syria and its Refugee Camps

Ahmad El-Haj Bakri "There is no place for social distancing here. We are 40 people, and have lived in eight tents since 2015," says 62-year-old Maryam Sheikh Omar. Maryam has 15 boys, one girl, and 18 grandchildren. She has lived with…
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Covid 19

Syria: Hope no longer enough, as COVID-19 Haunts Elderly

Ammar Ezz It is not only making ends meet that worries Badriyah al-Jasim (55), a Syrian woman displaced from the countryside of Ma`arat al-Nu`man city. There is also COVID-19, which had her extremely worried and distressed, for…
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Marriage by Picture: Matchmakers Preying on Syrian Refugee Girls in Turkey

Ayman Makieh – Istanbul Samar, a Syrian girl from Aleppo, had no idea her marriage to a rich Saudi man in Istanbul would only last one day. This 22-year-old had been longing for a more stable life, away from the atrocities of war. Her hope…
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Investigations

Syria: “Stones Smuggling”

Daham Al Asaad - Istanbul Two kilometers of the Turkish-Syrian border, Yusuf entered into an old house located at Reyhanlı suburbs – south of Turkey, opened carefully a brown big canvas bag and take out slowly a heavy stone inside it to…
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Investigations

“Mothers before their time”

Ola Al-Hariri- Istanbul: Inside the maternity ward of the public “Dugum” hospital in Gaziantep, Turkey, the Syrian refugee Nour Shabaan, aged 17, lies in a bed for pregnant women, getting ready to give birth to her baby. The parents…
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