“Never Again” has become an empty slogan when it comes to Syria. Still, we have hope, writes one Syrian-American doctor.
Stars fill the night sky over the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib, and the streets are eerily quiet. The calm might not last much longer. Reuters photographer Ammar Abdullah went out at night in Idlib to take this surreal series of images.
A woman who fled war in a Syrian city speaks about life under al-Qaeda's strong Syria branch, Jabhat al-Nusra.
"I think the situation inside Syria is a war without law and a war without end," said David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and former foreign secretary for the UK. “And I’m afraid that our workers and the people they serve are daily subjects to the Assad Regime, [and] its barrel bombing missions.”
For an openly gay man, life in Syria was never easy. But things are actually getting worse.
More than 60 journalists have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in 2011. Among the most recent is Iraqi journalist Yasser Faisal al-Julaimi, who was killed last month by Islamic extremists. Baghdad-based reporter Jane Arraf knew Yasser well and recalls his keen sense of beauty.
Two Syrian-American brothers who sneak back into Syria to fight the government run into their father in the besieged city of Idlib. And their father is none-too-happy to see them. Marine Olivesi met up with the family in Turkey and tells their story.
Many Syrian fighters and refugees have fled over the border into Turkey. Some see similarities between what is happening now in Idlib and the massacres in the mid-90s at Srebrenica, in Bosnia.
Syria's Arab Spring-inspired revolution is entering its second year and there's no end in sight. In fact, if anything, government officials are more strongly entrenched than they've been at any point in past months, fresh off routes of rebel forces and strongholds around the country's north.
International activists want to help Syrians by sending in caravans of humanitarian aid through Turkey and Jordan. It's unlikely the food and medicine will reach their destination, but they hope their efforts will boost morale inside the besieged country.