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Rasha Elass

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man looking out a broken window, surrounded by rubble

Russia-Turkey agreement provides inkling of hope to Syrians in Idlib

Conflict

The Russian-Turkish agreement to designate a demilitarized zone may have averted an imminent attack on Idlib but many of the Syrians who live there, like Mohammad Hmeidan and his family, are still waiting for a more permanent solution to their displacement.

A Syrian national flag flutters next to the Islamic State's slogan at a roundabout where executions were carried out by ISIS militants in the city of Palmyra, in Homs Governorate, Syria April 1, 2016.

They called the boys ‘buttons’ because pushing a button would be the last thing they did

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Boys carry boxes of biscuits near rubble of damaged buildings in Aleppo, March 2, 2016.

What life is like in Aleppo after the ‘ceasefire’

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Leila Al Bakhry at a Women’s Center in Eastern Ghouta.

Syrian women under siege share insights about love, fear and food

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Children crowd around Zein in a camp in southern Aleppo.

As Syrian men go missing, women take new leadership roles, and bear new burdens

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A man walks amid rubble of damaged buildings after what activists said was a mortar shell thrown on an area after air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Ain Tarma, in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, on April 5, 2015

In a besieged part of Damascus, Eid comes with few blessings for Syrians who feel abandoned by US

Conflict

Syrians still stuck in the country see the West’s focus on refugees as a sign they have been forgotten and abandoned.

Even before the chemical attack, the Zamalka neighborhood of Damascus suffered government bombardment.

Weapons inspectors have nothing to offer residents of destroyed Damascus neighborhood

Conflict & Justice

The chemical weapons inspectors now working in Syria say the government of Bashar al-Assad is cooperating. But that’s cold comfort to residents in the Damascus neighborhood of Zamalka, where there are endless blocks of fallen concrete and twisted metal, buildings that are sliced in half and remnants of lives that used to be.