Tags (4) : Syria's civil war

Refugees-turned-language teachers learn new life

Refugees-turned-language teachers learn new life
Carola Sole | 05/01/2017 | Society
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, CAROLA SOLÉ- When Hadi Bakkour fled Syria's civil war, he lost almost everything except one precious gift that gave him new life on the other side of the world: his language. Bakkour, 22, escaped Aleppo in 2014 for fear he'd be forced to serve in President Bashar al-Assad's...
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Suicide bomber kills 4 in Assad clan's hometown

Suicide bomber kills 4 in Assad clan's hometown
AFP | 02/22/2015 | News
DAMASCUS, SYRIA- A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed four people on Sunday in an unprecedented attack on a hospital that took Syria's civil war to the ruling Assad clan's hometown for the first time, a monitoring group said. The attack came as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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Syria war death toll now more than 200,000: monitor

Syria war death toll now more than 200,000: monitor
AFP | 12/03/2014 | News
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syria's civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. "We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March 2011," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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Syrian man arrested in Belgium over suspected terror links: lawyer

AFP | 08/03/2014 | News
BRUSSELS- A Syrian man has been arrested in Belgium on suspicion of participating in terrorist activities after he was found to be in possession of videos showing killings linked to a jihadist group, his lawyer said on Saturday. The 25-year-old man, who has not been named, was detained after he...
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