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The Intercept
April 14, 2018
She told people she was writing a book about Salma and overseeing renovations of the family home in the capital's Ain al-Kirish neighborhood. This was true, but it also served as a convenient cover story for a Syrian-American journalist who had returned to Syria to discover whether “Syrians could get theirÃâà...
erienewsnow.com
April 12, 2018
Graphic by Anastasia Beltyukova and Henrik Pettersson for CNN () -- Just when you thought Syria's long-running civil war couldn't get any more complicated -- it did. ... The US is also fighting ISIS, but not to support Assad -- it has bombed Syrian military targets in retaliation for a chemical attack on civilians.
CNN
April 12, 2018
Northern Syria (CNN) Only twice before has the use of chemical weapons brought to Syria the threat or reality of US strikes -- in Ghouta in 2013, and in ... In October 2013, the OPCW confirmed "the government of the Syrian Arab Republic has completed the functional destruction of critical equipment for allÃâà...
Rudaw
April 7, 2018
MANBIJ, Northern Syrian Federation — A number of people from other parts of the Syrian Kurdistan joined Manbij people earlier this week to protest against the Turkish incursion into Afrin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's threats to attack Manbij if the Kurdish-led fighters continue to controlÃâà...
KXAN.com
April 3, 2018
Tuesday, Salma Hayek will talk about her experience with Harvey Weinstein making advances when she was making the movie Frida in 2002. ... to George Clooney, talking about her experience advocating for women who have been sexually assaulted and held against their will by ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Haaretz
March 28, 2018
“It's better to stand in the queue of voters than in the queue of refugees,” read one banner, a reference to the chaos in Syria following its own revolt ... Across the street, 19-year-old engineering student Salma Mohammed said that older adults often criticized young people who didn't want to vote for el-Sissi.
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 28, 2018
Syria executed between 5,000 and 13,000 prisoners between 2011 and 2015, according to an Amnesty International report released last year. The U.S. State ... Syria. Tens of thousands more are expected to follow them north to Idlib, where more than 1 million displaced Syrians have already sought refuge.
CTV News
March 15, 2018
Residents walk through the rubble of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP / Hassan ... of civil war in Syria. For Syrians marking seven years of war this week, their country has never looked as helpless, fragmented and abandoned by the international community.
Gulf Today
March 9, 2018
As for titles under “Children's Literature”, the list named 'jada'el khadra'a' (Green Braids) by Syrian author Muhannad Al-Aqous, published by Kalimat, 2017; 'ana salma' (I am Salma) by Syrian author Lina Hawyan Al-Hasan, published by Hakayaa, Beirut, 2017; and 'al-dinoraf' (The Dynoraf) by EmiratiÃâà...
ITV News
March 9, 2018
Salma Zulfiqar, a Birmingham-based international artist and the curator of the exhibition has worked with women from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Senegal to create the exhibition called 'Migration Blanket'. It shows the challenges they face with integration in the UK as well asÃâà...
ZAWYA
March 7, 2018
As for titles under “Children's Literature”, the list named 'jada'el khadra'a' (Green Braids) by Syrian author Muhannad Al-Aqous, published by Kalimat, 2017; 'ana salma' (I am Salma) by Syrian author Lina Hawyan Al-Hasan, published by Hakayaa, Beirut, 2017; and 'al-dinoraf' (The Dynoraf) by EmiratiÃâà...
Doctors Without Borders
March 6, 2018
More than half of the Syrian population have been forcibly displaced. Salma [name changed to protect anonymity] fled with her children and brother-in-law from outside Damascus in Syria, south to Daraa, then crossed the border into Jordan. After a brief stay in Zaatari refugee camp, she moved to Irbid.
Doctors Without Borders
March 5, 2018
More than half of the Syrian population have been forcibly displaced. Salma [name changed to protect anonymity] fled with her children and brother-in-law from outside Damascus in Syria, south to Daraa, then crossed the border into Jordan. After a brief stay in Zaatari refugee camp, she moved to Irbid.
CBS News
March 5, 2018
Actors Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra and Salma Hayek speak onstage during the 90th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood ... Activists including Janet Mock, #MeToo creator Tarana Burke and 8-year-old Syrian activist Bana Alabed stand behind the artists as they performed.
New York Times
March 5, 2018
Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra — three of Harvey Weinstein's accusers — took the stage and introduced a segment highlighting the .... the 8-year-old Syrian refugee who documented the siege of Aleppo on Twitter; and Janet Mock, a transgender activist and television writer and host.
The National
March 5, 2018
Salma Hayek got up on stage on Sunday night to salute the trailblazers who broke through "the biased perceptions against their gender, their race and ... Last Men In Aleppo was the first Syrian-produced and directed film to be up for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Oscar, and while sportsÃâà...
The Times
March 1, 2018
Dhaka Three Nobel peace prizewinners have accused their fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese military of genocide for their role in violence that has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. Tawakkol Karman from Yemen, Mairead Maguire from NorthernÃâà...
Times of India
February 27, 2018
BEIRUT: A fledgling "humanitarian pause" announced by Russia in Syria's rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta was rattled on Tuesday by fresh air strikes ... The Syrian state news agency SANA also accused the rebels of firing several rockets on the path of the corridor declared by Russia to allow for theÃâà...
The Aerogram
February 20, 2018
malek.thehome.300 The Home That Was Our Country, releasing in paperback on March 13 from Hachette's Nation Books, is Alia Malek's history of Syria intertwined with the history of her own family. Written with a clear-eyed journalistic tone, the story follows the author's grandmother, Salma, the formidable,Ãâà...
CNN
February 20, 2018
(CNN) US-supplied weapons originally intended for moderate allies in Syria have ended up for sale on jihadist online forums in the country's northern al Qaeda ... The vendor claimed the weapon originally belonged to one of the more prominent and costly failures by the US to help Syrian moderate rebelsÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
February 20, 2018
“The US should stop playing very dangerous games which could lead to the dismemberment of the Syrian state,” Lavrov said at Moscow conference with Iranian and Syrian representatives addressing the crisis in the Middle East yesterday. It's a thinly veiled reference to a recent battle on the banks of theÃâà...
Times of India
February 19, 2018
BEIRUT: Heavy Syrian regime bombardment of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta killed at least 18 civilians on Monday, a monitor said, as government forces ... The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes battered the town of Hammuriyeh in Eastern Ghouta, leaving nine civilians dead.
CNN
February 16, 2018
Officials in the Philippines say Demafelis's employers, a Lebanese man and Syrian woman, both at large, are considered the prime suspects in her murder. ... Salma, who didn't want to reveal her surname, had been living in limbo after losing her legal status when she quit her job with an abusive employerÃâà...
New Jersey Monthly
February 15, 2018
But Syria Supper Club—a local venture that brings Syrian refugees into private homes to cook Syrian meals for up to 20 guests, each paying $50—does help ... Susan Norkin welcomed the 13 guests, who had put on name tags; and Salma Nassan, the volunteer translator for the evening, opened lines ofÃâà...
Just Security
February 14, 2018
7 near the city of Deir al-Zour in Syria, the U.S. claimed that the strike was in response to an unprovoked attack by pro-Syrian government forces on a ... and the Kremlin has played down the incident, emphasizing since last Wednesday that Russians fighting alongside Syrians were mercenaries and that noÃâà...
Times of India
February 9, 2018
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council is considering demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow the delivery of aid and the evacuation of ... Syrian ally Russia has cast 11 vetoes on possible Security Council action on Syria since the civil war began in 2011, shielding Syrian PresidentÃâà...
Manchester Evening News
July 30, 2017
They were regarded as 'dream students' with bright futures ahead of them, but became radicalised and ran away overnight to join a so-called ISIS 'caliphate' in Syria. Once in the war-ravaged country the pair married Islamic State fighters and Salma is known to have given birth to a boy. It is understood theyÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh made the comments during a wide-ranging interview with CNN, which they consented to, from inside a detention facility in northern Syria where they are being held by US-backed Syrian Kurds. The pair gained notoriety for being part of a British-accented group ofÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
(CNN) The Pentagon has denied Syrian claims the US attacked a Homs air base Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump tweeted "Animal Assad" would have a "big price to pay" for an alleged chemical weapons attack in the city of Douma. The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency claimed Syrian airÃâà...
