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New York Times
February 8, 2018
CHICAGO — When the civil war in Syria escalated in 2012, the violence forced many residents to flee to neighboring Lebanon. Mounira Al Solh, an artist, .... That's where I met Ali, who is from Al Zabadani, a Syrian town close to the Lebanese border where there was a big battle. He told me that 60 percentÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 7, 2018
On Tuesday, 78 people were killed in the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta after heavy aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian forces. The United Nations has called for a cease-fire for a month across Syria to be able to deliver humanitarian aid and evacuate the critically ill and wounded.
The Guardian
February 7, 2018
Almost half the area's current population have been displaced from elsewhere in Syria; some were relocated as part of what Syrian officials call locally ... “They have stuck to this line for the past five years,” said Manaf Khaled, a businessman from the town of Zabadani, near Damascus, who was relocated toÃÂ ...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
February 1, 2018
In the Damascus suburb of Zabadani, for example, a group of local women pressured a militia to accept a twenty-day cease-fire with regime forces. ... The United Nations, United States, and other stakeholders in Syria should ensure that Syrian women have a seat at the table and an opportunity to helpÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 31, 2018
It's been six years since Bassam Antoun and his family fled the city of Zabadani in Syria, after bombs destroyed their home, business and neighbourhood. Rosaline Antoun, aged 16, said they had a good life, surrounded by soaring peaks and lush green valleys, before the war tore apart the city and theyÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 30, 2018
It's been six years since Bassam Antoun and his family fled the city of Zabadani in Syria, after bombs destroyed their home, business and neighbourhood. Rosaline Antoun, aged 16, said they had a good life, surrounded by soaring peaks and lush green valleys, before the war tore apart the city and theyÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 30, 2018
It's been six years since Bassam Antoun and his family fled the city of Zabadani in Syria, after bombs destroyed their home, business and neighbourhood. Rosaline Antoun, aged 16, said they had a good life, surrounded by soaring peaks and lush green valleys, before the war tore apart the city and theyÃÂ ...
The Journal Pioneer
January 29, 2018
The Antoun families were forced in 2012 to flee the city of Zabadani in Syria, after bombs singed and scarred their homes, business and neighbourhood. Rosaline, aged 16, said they had a good life, surrounded by soaring peaks and lush green valleys, before the war tore apart the city and they escapedÃÂ ...
The Journal Pioneer
January 28, 2018
The Antoun families were forced in 2012 to flee the city of Zabadani in Syria, after bombs singed and scarred their homes, business and neighbourhood. Rosaline, aged 16, said they had a good life, surrounded by soaring peaks and lush green valleys, before the war tore apart the city and they escapedÃÂ ...
The Journal Pioneer
January 28, 2018
The Antoun families were forced in 2012 to flee the city of Zabadani in Syria, after bombs singed and scarred their homes, business and neighbourhood. Rosaline, aged 16, said they had a good life, surrounded by soaring peaks and lush green valleys, before the war tore apart the city and they escapedÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
January 23, 2018
How will the Sunni people from Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Idlib and the people of Madaya, Zabadani, Jawbar, Al-Yarmouk camp and Houran get over the atrocities committed by Assad's ... How will Alawites, as in the ordinary people, be secure in the Syrian coast and mountains and Homs countryside?
CBC.ca
January 22, 2018
It's been a long road from Zabadani, Syria to Bedeque, P.E.I. for Bassam Antoun and his family. The family was forced to flee in 2012 from war-torn Zabadani, a city of 26,000 hit hard hard by the Syrian civil war. Antoun, along with his wife and three children fled to Damascus where they would live for a yearÃÂ ...
TASS
January 10, 2018
ZABADANI/Syria/, January 11. /TASS/. Russia's military from the Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria delivered on Thursday several tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Al-Zabadani, in southwestern Syria's Rif Dimashq Governorate, a TASS correspondent said. The city, located close to the de-escalationÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 6, 2018
The returning families are part of 10,000 others that had fled Zabadani when the battles there were raging before the Syrian army retook it and nearby areas in April 2017, after a deal was struck for the evacuation of the rebels toward northwestern Syria. (Xinhua/Ammar Safarjalani). DAMASCUS, Jan.
Enab Baladi
January 5, 2018
The influence map in Syria has witnessed major changes in 2017, most of which were in favor of the Syrian regime and the Kurdish forces while the .... similar to the scenario followed in other areas west of Damascus, such as khan al-Shih, Zakiya, Knaker, Barada valley, Al- Zabadani, and Madaya. It seemsÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
August 29, 2017
"We are now constructing the road leading to the city itself," Adeilati noted. In May, Russia, Turkey and Iran, the guarantor states of Syrian ceasefire, signed a memorandum to create four zones of de-escalation in Syria. Three zones in southern Syria and in Eastern Ghouta are already operational, and talksÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
April 14, 2017
The transfer has begun in Syria of residents of two rebel-held towns in exchange for moving rebel fighters and civilians out of two other towns under an evacuation agreement. Zabadani and Madaya, both located near the capital Damascus, are besieged by the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad andÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
December 8, 2017
The Irish Red Cross is facilitating the placement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into medium to long term accommodation across the country and since August 2017, has placed 65 refugees into housing. This follows from a request made by the Department of Justice and Equality to the Irish Red Cross in the ...
AMN Al-Masdar News
December 2, 2017
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:16 PM) – Vicious battles erupted in Tal Barda'aya after rebels launched a counteroffensive aimed at dislodging loyalist ... to reverse the gains of the elite 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division, their fate will resemble that of their counterparts in West Ghouta, Zabadani, Barada ...
HuffPost
November 29, 2017
Afineevsky took himself to Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan where the most Syrian refugees were for eye witness accounts, traveling repeatedly to ... with Syrian refugee Rahaf Aloush (left) who wrote her will as she and her family approached death from starvation in embattled Madaya Zabadani in 2015.
Syria Direct
November 28, 2017
Over the course of the next month, Syria Direct, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, is working with a team of six Syrian journalists in .... and Kufraya began, regime forces hundreds of kilometers to the south in Outer Damascus implemented a siege of their own in Zabadani and Madaya.
Middle East Eye
November 22, 2017
Heart-rending images come out of the Syrian war with such regularity that one would almost be forgiven for becoming inured to their horror. ... The suffering of Madaya and nearby rebel-held Zabadani came to an end not with relief, but with evacuation, as rebels and the regime struck a deal to vacate the ...
The New Indian Express
November 17, 2017
Six were killed the previous day, including Syria's national karate coach Fadel Fadi, who died of his wounds after being hit by shrapnel as he left his Damascus sports club, the state-run SANA news agency reported. More than 330,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the Syrian war, which ...
Voice of America
November 13, 2017
Amnesty said those messages are being ignored and said the U.N. should renew efforts to end unlawful attacks on populated areas, impose sanctions against those responsible for war crimes, impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government and to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal ...
The Peninsula Qatar
October 30, 2017
DAMASCUS, Syria: At least 11 civilians were killed during Syrian regime's ... in al-Yarmouk refugee camp, Madaya and al-Zabadani,” he said.
Yeni Şafak English
October 30, 2017
Russia hopes that Turkey can stabilize the situation in Syria's Idlib Province ... At least six civilians were killed and seven others injured in Syrian regime ... done in al-Yarmouk refugee camp, Madaya and al-Zabadani,” he said.
The Peninsula Qatar
October 30, 2017
DAMASCUS, Syria: At least 11 civilians were killed during Syrian regime's ... in al-Yarmouk refugee camp, Madaya and al-Zabadani,” he said.
Open Democracy
October 26, 2017
The Syrian revolutionary process is a more thoroughly documented .... such as Oxigen run in the city of Zabadani; while some were able to ...
Business Insider
October 26, 2017
Red Cross syria Syrian Red Crescent ambulances line up as they arrive to evacuate injured Syrian opposition fighters from Zabadani town, ...
Xinhua
October 19, 2017
A Syrian man puts a plant in the farmland in the town of Zabadani, ... damages due to the battles between the Syrian army and the rebels.
Al-Monitor (blog)
October 16, 2017
On Oct. 13, Syrian jets launched at least 14 airstrikes on ... That deal was supposed to see evacuations from al-Qadam to either Idlib or Jarablus in Syria's ... and Madaya and Zabadani in the southwest besieged by Hezbollah ...
TRT World
October 13, 2017
Before he came to Turkey, he had been in Syria fighting for the Free ... a demonstration at the mountain town of Zabadani, Syria on January 20, ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
October 12, 2017
Talking to Syrian Christian refugees in Lebanon, it's obvious that life is ... and her husband Elias fled Zabadani, in southwestern Syria, in 2012, ...
Syria Direct
October 12, 2017
Madaya and Zabadani are two of the four towns that were the focus of a prominent agreement reached between the Syrian regime and rebels in March ... A handful of south Damascus residents who spoke to Syria Direct on ...
Arab News
October 10, 2017
Turkey is about to sink deeper into the Syrian quagmire as it launches ... areas of Syria, especially Aleppo, Homs, Qalamoun, Zabadani and the ...
Sputnik International
August 29, 2017
"We are now constructing the road leading to the city itself," Adeilati noted. In May, Russia, Turkey and Iran, the guarantor states of Syrian ceasefire, signed a memorandum to create four zones of de-escalation in Syria. Three zones in southern Syria and in Eastern Ghouta are already operational, and talks ...
Middle East Monitor
April 22, 2017
The towns of Zabadani and Madaya, which had long been under siege by pro-regime forces near Damascus and led to harrowing humanitarian catastrophes, came under regime rule this week after fighters and civilians from Syria's Sunni Arab majority were forcibly evacuated. The Syrian Observatory for ...
Aljazeera.com
April 19, 2017
The evacuation and transfer of thousands of Syrians from four besieged areas resumed on Wednesday, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The reciprocal evacuations from the two pro-government villages of Foua and Kefraya and the two opposition-held towns of Zabadani ...
Aljazeera.com
April 14, 2017
The transfer has begun in Syria of residents of two rebel-held towns in exchange for ... Zabadani and Madaya, both located near the capital Damascus, are besieged by the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and allied ...
The Nation.
March 22, 2017
Syrian children carry placards in front of the UN headquarters in Beirut as they call for the lifting of the siege off Madaya and Zabadani in Syria. .... When the Assad regime began attacking the nearby town of Zabadani in July 2015, I became a media activist, using my camera to document the barrel ...
Prensa Latina
December 31, 1999
Damascus, Nov 26 (Prensa Latina) More than 27 million trees have been cut, burned or destroyed in Syria since the beginning of the armed conflict in March 2011 ... He pointed out, in that sense, that only in the municipality of Zabadani, in the northwest of Damascus more than 544,000 plants of apples and ...
Sputnik International
August 30, 2017
In May, Russia, Turkey and Iran, the guarantor states of Syrian ceasefire, signed a memorandum to create four zones of de-escalation in Syria.
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
August 14, 2017
Syria's main cities from Kuneitra in the Golan northwards until the Turkish ... the Lebanese border in the area between Zabadani and Jaroud-Arsal, the ... 90 kilometers long and about twenty kilometers deep in Syrian territory).
Inter Press Service
August 14, 2017
The city of Zabadani in Syria taken last June 2017 during an IOM ... The figure is particularly relevant in view of the fact that the SyrianÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
August 14, 2017
Fighters from the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Zabadani gesture from inside a bus upon their arrival at the Masnaa border crossingÃÂ ...
The National
August 3, 2017
... their families and Syrian refugees are to be returned to Syria, most to ... of the Lebanon-Syrian border from Qusayr in the north to Zabadani.
bellingcat
August 2, 2017
... Tracking a Blue Hyundai Porter That Killed over 100 Evacuees in Syria .... Madaya and Zabadani near Damascus besieged by pro-government forces. ... which can be identified as a vehicle from the Syrian Arab Red Cross,ÃÂ ...
Haaretz
August 2, 2017
A Syrian man with a child is seen in a bus in Jroud Arsal, Lebanon, August 2 ... implemented in Aleppo, Zabadani, or on Syria's northern border.
The Peninsula Qatar
March 29, 2017
Residents of Zabadani and Madaya, two towns near Damascus under siege by government forces, will leave their homes in return for the evacuation of Fuaa and Kafraya, two mainly Shiite towns in the northwest besieged by the rebels, the Syrian ObservatoryÃÂ ...
Kuwait News Agency
March 29, 2017
The agreement is expected to facilitate the evacuation of civilians and gunmen from Madaya and Zabadani besieged by the regular troops and Kefraya and Fu'ah besieged by the opposition forces.
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