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Syrians in ex-rebel zones struggle after aid groups withdraw | AFP

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here October 8, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – Tens of thousands of Syrians in areas recaptured by government troops this year remain starved of humanitarian aid, with the relief agencies helping them for years now unable to reach them.

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Paving the way: Syria highway traces winning regime strategy | ِAFP

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on July 6, 2018]

From second city Aleppo all the way down to the border with Jordan, Syria’s longest highway cuts through fertile fields of green, buzzing industrial zones and four major cities.

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Doctors ask Syria to lift 7-year ban on access to wounded | AFP

May 23, 2018May 24, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on May 23, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday called on Syria’s government to reverse its seven-year ban on the medical charity, issuing an urgent appeal for access to wounded people in regime-held territory.

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Broken by siege, Syria rebels face worse loss yet in Ghouta | AFP

April 3, 2018April 4, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here April 4, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – The expected loss of Eastern Ghouta will deal Syria’s fragmented rebels their biggest blow yet, leaving them unable to threaten President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus and increasingly subservient to competing global interests.

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Syrians seek release of prisoners from ‘crematorium’ jail | AFP

May 17, 2017May 21, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on May 17, 2017]

Standing outside the UN’s headquarters in Geneva, Amina Kholani chokes back tears as she relives the nightmare of visiting relatives in Saydnaya, one of Syria’s most notorious prisons.

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Syria talks open overshadowed by rival track, rebel losses | AFP

May 15, 2017May 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on May 15, 2017]

Geneva (Switzerland) (AFP) – A new round of Syrian peace talks opens in Geneva on Tuesday, overshadowed by a competing process in Astana and with rebels reeling from a major setback in Damascus.

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Lebanon rescues 3 Siberian tiger cubs en route to Syria | AFP

March 18, 2017March 19, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here March 18, 2017]

BEIRUT: An animal rights group in Lebanon is caring for three dehydrated, maggot-infested Siberian tiger cubs that were rescued on their way to a zoo in neighboring war-ravaged Syria.

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I’ve reached the highlight of my career: figuring out ways to eat my way to a story. But really - tracing Doha’s transformation through the stories of a few of its famous eateries was both eye-opening and mouthwatering. The city’s oldest restaurateurs told me how gentrification forced them to move locations, an explosion in the worker presence expanded their customer base and their smashing of taboos created new social spaces. Read the story in my bio and slide into my DMs for recommendations.
Like any country, Qatar is a complicated place, with complicated stories and complicated stratifications. An ultra-bright spotlight has been shown on the country and its rights record since it won hosting rights to FIFA’s World Cup 2022 - but the floodlights have sometimes missed the details.
This ball made it from Doha to a displacement camp in northern Syria, where kids pushed out of their homes by more than a decade of war played a few matches with it, and circled back to Qatar in time for the #worldcup2022 kickoff on Sunday.
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