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Sun Nov 16 2008 at 1:20:13 Once upon a time, there was a city called Antioch, founded by Seleucus, one of Alexander The Greats generals. Actually, he had quite a thing for that name (his son was called Antiochus), and he founded 16 Antiochs, but it was the one near modern-day Aleppo that flourished and became the third greatest city of the Eastern Roman Empire. Around this great city there grew up an extensive network of towns and villages that depended on the trade flowing in and out of Antioc...

Meath man Derek O’Rourke is GOAL’s Middle East Security Advisor. He outlines the challenges faced by NGOs as they navigate Syrian regions devastated by war.

10 years of war in Syria has had a devastating impact on the Syrian people, but child refugees dream of Syria they never knew.

Are college students in need of more ethnic studies? In Madison, Wisconsin, the answer is Yes. So says a school government. As reported by The College Fix, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Associated Students of Madison (ASM) recently unanimously voted to bump up the number of such classes required for graduation. The amount of increase: 100%. Following the vote to upgrade three to six, committee leaders issued a news release: UW-Madison is responsible for providing students with the kno...

After 10 Years of Conflict, 60% of Syria’s Population Struggles to Feed Themselves Format As Syria marks its tenth year of conflict, 13.4 million people – 75% of the country’s population – are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, a 20% increase from 2020. The cost of the basic food basket has increased by 250% in the last year and is beyond the reach of many families. Action Against Hunger, one of the few international organizations that has been able to work inside Syria since th...

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Speaking from across fragmented Syria or even abroad, they give a personal account of a war that has killed more than 387,000 people and displaced millions from their homes.

"His name isnt on the list."  Five years on, Najwa, who declined to give her surname for fear of being identified, still remembers feeling nauseous as she pleaded with a Syrian officer for information about her missing son, 16-year-old Hani. She later learned what had happened from a friend of his. Nabil, then 18, told her that a man working with the Syrian army had recruited the two teenagers to join troops based at Tabqa military airport, in the northern Raqqa governorate, to repel an assaul...

SHARE Novels are born in different ways. Some lucky writers have eureka moments and magic-up original concepts and bold outlines. Others are forced to sift and sort hazy thoughts and germs of ideas, shaping them over time into something resembling a narrative. For author Layla Al Ammar, the issues that form the background to her second novel had been incubating in her mind for years, but only as hard facts. “These were issues that I’d been deeply absorbed in from early 2011,” she says, �...

Content warning: This article contains references that some may find distressing.  It was 2011 in Aleppo, Syria, and mother of two, Zuzan Hassan was nine months pregnant with twin boys. Her family of four were living on the top level of a five-storey apartment block when a series of airstrikes began above them. “Our building was collapsing so I was running away with my two small kids, and the babies in my stomach fell out in the street,” she says. Covered in blood, Zuzan was carried to hos...