by Ammar Azzouz and Irit Katz
The urban nature of the Syrian conflict has caused heavy physical damage to cities and the internal displacement in Syria is also inherently urban. Many of the 6.5 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Syria have been displaced, sometimes several times, within their own cities. IDPs have been unable to leave the country and […]
by Suraina Pasha
This memo explores the trajectories in the transformation of Rukban from an informal border crossing into a displaced Syrian camp. Rukban is situated in the far eastern Badiya desert close to the tripartite nexus of the borders of Jordan, Syria and Iraq. The displaced population at the site are camped in clusters in a legal grey-zone between […]
by Schadi Semnani
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In May 2017, an agreement signed by Iran, Russia and Turkey in Astana, Kazakhstan, led to the implementation of a ceasefire and the delineation of de-escalation zones in Syria. The four zones in the agreement are opposition-controlled parts of the southern provinces of Dar’a and Quneitra, pockets around Damascus and Homs, all of Idlib province and western […]
by Zeina Awad
No story has dominated the news the way that the refugee crisis has in recent years. While the trauma of war and displacement affects all refugees, one’s gender often shapes the ways in which violence and conflict are experienced. Throughout the course of my field reporting in Uganda, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and the Greek island of Lesbos, […]
by Vuk Vuksanovic
Shortly after the Barcelona attacks which killed 15 people and injuring at least a hundred, ISIS claimed responsibility for what is yet another episode in the string of terror hitting Europe in the past two years. Spanish police later killed five suspected terrorists and arrested other suspected perpetrators. Even after losing its biggest stronghold in Iraq, the […]
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