Syrian women refugees humiliated, exploited in Turkey

Publication: Al-Monitor REYHANLI, Turkey — Dima* is a confident 21-year-old with pale skin and big brown eyes. Her black headscarf is wrapped loosely around her head above her pink dress. She has two small children and a husband, but he currently works as a cab driver in Lebanon. Every month, Adly sends…

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Syrian refugees tell of barrel bombing horror

Publication: Al-Monitor KILIS, Turkey — With her pale face and dark circles under her eyes, Amal looks like she hasn’t slept in days. And she hasn’t, she tells Al-Monitor, because of the constant explosions in her neighborhood. Two days before, Amal and her children fled…

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Syrian children suffer, adapt to war

Publication: Al-Monitor REYHANLI, Turkey- Children at a Syrian field hospital near the Turkish border accept the war as the new normal. Three weeks ago, 15-year-old Mohammed was a normal, healthy boy. Although he lived in a war-torn country, he played with his friends and bought…

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Verdwenen Syriërs

Publicatie: De Tijd  De Syrische burgeroorlog maakte al minstens 110.000 doden en joeg 7 miljoen Syriërs op de vlucht. Ondertussen verdwenen tienduizenden anderen van de radar. Ze werden opgepakt en opgesloten in geheime gevangenissen. Wie vrijkomt, getuigt over gruwelijke martelpraktijken. De Syriër Jad Bantha (32) woonde…

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Syrians describe brutal prison torture

Written for Al Jazeera Amnesty International says government forces are responsible for “a shocking catalogue of abuses” in secret jails. Syrian activist Jad Bantha came back to Damascus after a long period of living abroad. He wanted to participate in the revolution and started attending…

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Syrian refugees embark on exodus from Egypt

Written for Al Jazeera  Sixth of October City, Egypt – Salem, the owner of a small market in this Cairo suburb, knows all the Syrian refugees living in a neighbourhood that has come to be known as “Little Damascus”. He wears a “Free Syria” bracelet…

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Syrian tragedy plays out on Jordan’s streets

  Published: Al Monitor Almost every hospital in Jordan has a ward where Syrians can receive free health care after being severely wounded in Syria. AMMAN – At Al-Jazeera Hospital in Amman, Fatima, 10, cried when she talked about what happened to her right eye, which…

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Schelden op Assad en huilen om verloren ledematen

AMMAN- In het ziekenhuis hangt een smerige lucht, een mengeling van antibacterieel spul en zweet. Ik kijk naar Ziad en zie dat hij zijn neus dichtknijpt. De vrouwelijke dokter die ons naar één van de ziekenhuiskamers begeleidt, laat de meest gruwelijke foto’s zien: foto’s van…

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Verbonden door het oorlogsleed

Syrische vluchtelingen liefdevol opgevangen in Irak Geschreven voor het Algemeen Dagblad 25-05-2013 DUHOK- Miljoenen Syrische vluchtelingen leven in mensonterende omstandigheden in een van de buurlanden. In het Iraakse Domiz is alles anders. Geen krotjes, huilende kinderen of wanhopige ouders, maar lachende gezichten, keurige tentjes en…

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Kurds flee for Iraq as Syria war slogs on

Written for Al Jazeera  Duhok, Iraq – As Syria’s brutal civil war slogs on, some of the country’s ethnic Kurds have been fleeing the chaos and destruction and taking refuge across the border in Iraq. About 50,000 people live in the Domiz camp, located near…

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