Syria
Latest news from Syria as covered by the Guardian. News and stories about the country, people and politics
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Lady Gaga at the Super Bowl, Barack Obama kitesurfing, Syrian refugees arriving in the US, a looted and abandoned Rio Olympic venue – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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Fredrik Önnevall met teenager in Greece while filming documentary about the migration crisis
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Exclusive: Kimberley Taylor, 27, who quit UK to join all-female military unit, says she is willing to give her life to end extremism
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Turkey sees trip of reset of relations that were strained under Obama with Pompeo due in Ankara 48 hours after Trump and Erdoğan spoke by phone
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Editorial: As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in Saydnaya prison, according to Amnesty International. Evidence of the regime’s viciousness continues to mount
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Recreating three vertical buses used to stop sniper fire in Syria is ‘an abuse of artistic freedom’ say rightwingers in German city devastated in WWII
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According to Amnesty, Saydnaya prison is an extermination centre where starvation and torture are the prelude to mass hangings, up to 50 at a time
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Thousands of other opponents of Assad died from torture and starvation at Saydnaya prison, witness reports suggest
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The panel is asked by a Syrian refugee who was shot and tortured why anyone would want to ban him from becoming a citizen in the wake of Trump’s travel ban
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Pastor of Fort McMurray church sponsoring Ibtesam Alkarnake’s arrival describes her ‘brute determination’ after she had a healthy baby
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Body of Ryan Lock, who was fighting alongside Kurdish forces near Raqqa, is due to be repatriated to UK ‘in the next few days’
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After helping Syrian refugees come to US last year, travel ban upended group of New York churches and synagogue’s mission to help Khoja family resettle
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Owen Jones speaks to some of the thousands of protesters gathered outside Downing Street
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UN refers ‘the most vulnerable’ to governments for resettlement, refugee chief said, adding that more than 800 people had been set to arrive in US this week
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I’m a Syrian refugee in the UK – join my protest against Trump
Baraa Ehssan KoujaTrump’s travel ban will encourage division and make a terror attack more likely, just so he can say ‘I told you so’ -
UK’s national newspapers sympathise with the prime minister over her failure to condemn the US president’s ban
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Tory MPs join Labour to criticise PM’s response as condemnation of policy US policy spreads across the world
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The Middle Eastern community in Houston, a diverse and industrious city in deep-red Texas, responds to the president’s order with appalled disbelief
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Iran says order is ‘gift to extremists’ and insult to Islamic world, with condemnation also from Iraq and Sudan
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PM issues statement after causing outcry by declining to speak out against executive order that could affect British dual nationals
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Protests against Donald Trump, the battle for Mosul, the Australian Open tennis: the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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Activists and analysts lead condemnation of executive order, warning of dangers to counter-terror efforts as the US fails to ‘stand by its principles’
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Human rights officials say Malcolm Turnbull must immediately outline a plan for those imprisoned on Manus Island and Nauru
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Trump announced and signed executive action that has widely been reported as a temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries
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US president’s proposal met with caution from Russian and Turkish officials over northern safe zones as others fear possible intention to keep refugees out of US
Syria's plight must not be allowed to slip from the world's conscience