Sentences with phrase «syrian city»

About Blog The Aleppo Project is an open collaboration to capture information about the past of the Syrian city, analyse the conflict that is destroying it, and help residents plan for the future.

The once vibrant Syrian city has been torn apart by five years of civil war, leaving little to identify places there were once filled with life.

In the work, the columns, arches, and porticoes of the war - torn Syrian city of Damascus are part of a layered architectural and historical portrait of that city.

An earlier version of this article misstated the length of time the Getty Villa will host an exhibition on artworks from Palmyra, an ancient Syrian city.

That gallery's first show, open for more than a year, will feature funerary relief portraits from Palmyra, an ancient Syrian city that flourished during the Roman Empire, owned by the museum Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.

Julie Mehretu's six - panel print Epigraph, Damascus (2016) constructs what she has described as «story maps of dislocation,» here providing a portrait of the war - torn Syrian city.

The once vibrant Syrian city has been torn...

In the first Assassin's Creed game, players assume the role of Altair, a disgraced Assassin from the Syrian city of Masyaf who is seeking redemption after breaking his order's creed.

For example, the blog «Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently» was awarded the International Press Freedom Award in 2015, and the Civil Courage Prize in 2016 for its coverage and first - hand stories from inside the Islamic State, occupied Syrian city of Raqqa.

Matthew Heinemann's City of Ghosts takes place in another sieged Syrian city, IS stronghold Raqqa, focusing on the city's citizen journalist network, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a group that records and releases in secret from this controlled zone, at considerable risk.

The ISIS - occupied Syrian city of Raqqa may be in the news this week, but for years one of the only sources of information about it came from a group of heroic citizen journalists.

As with his previous, highly topical work, the of - the - moment subject of «Ghosts» is the Islamic State, also known as ISIS — or, rather, a band of citizen journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who have defied death threats and assassinations to get the news out of the Islamic State's capital, via a Web portal called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

Documentarian Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts» profiles a group of citizen - journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who are fighting the terrorist group ISIS with pens and cameras,» not guns.

A portrait of young revolutionaries fighting for justice in the titular Syrian city.

City of Ghosts (Matthew Heineman, director) Follows a number of citizen journalists who exhibit unbelievable courage in transmitting accounts of life in Raqqa, a Syrian city under ISIS domination.

City of Ghosts begins in the Syrian city of Raqqa in 2012, wherein we witness the beginning of the revolution against the Assad regime.

When the film opens, Homs could pass for a thriving Syrian city, though tanks in the streets and soldiers on rooftops reflect the mounting tension between the locals and the country's leader, president Bashar al - Assad, «elected» (the 2000 ballot offered no alternatives) after the death of his father, who had controlled the country for three decades before him.

A Turkish chilli named after the Syrian city of Aleppo, the dried chilli flakes have a milder, sweeter and slightly tangier flavour than standard chilli flakes.

A decade ago, before the onset of Syria's brutal civil war, he was part of a team that gathered samples from an unusual kitchen in a palace in the northwestern Syrian city of Ebla, which flourished 4 millennia ago on the outskirts of the Sumerian and Akkadian empires.

Plans are in place to safeguard the future of Syrian agriculture by re-creating a seed collection stored in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, which is at risk of being destroyed by the country's civil war.

The PM will outline a seven - point plan which includes striking IS at its «headquarters» in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

Those Isil gains include the Iraqi city of Ramadi and the Syrian city of Palmyra.

France bombed the Syrian city of Raqqa last night, its most aggressive strike against the Islamic State group it blames for killing 129 people in a string of terrorist attacks across Paris only two days before.

Apparently, while Michael Flynn was the National Security Advisor, Turkey wanted him to convince President Trump to abort an attack on the Syrian city of Raqqa, an ISIS stronghold.

There's a call to pray for the war - torn Syrian city of Aleppo with a proposed ceasefire appearing to... More

Children in the Syrian city of Aleppo are burning tires in an attempt to create a no - fly zone above the besieged city.

The basic facts of the new intercept, as much as both sides agree on them, are that a U.S. Air Force F - 22 Raptor stealth fighter jammed itself in front of a pair of Russian Air Force Su - 25 Frogfoots near the Syrian city of Al Mayadin.

It has released three more brief VR documentaries, including Welcome to Aleppo, which takes viewers to the Syrian city's bombed - out streets, echoing with sniper fire.

Terrorists from the radical Islamic group ISIS set off car bombs, suicide bombs and even launched rockets in three Syrian cities.

There aren't many Shiites in Syria, but the Assads courted them from neighboring Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, allowing them to build major shrines to the faith's founders in Syrian cities.

Around 1.5 million people migrated to Syrian cities during the drought, adding to the high population growth and recent arrival of 1.2 to 1.5 million Iraqi refugees.

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More than 75 % of the city is now cleared of ISIS fighters, he said on Thursday, adding that Syrian Democratic Forces, a mainly Kurdish force partnering with the coalition, «have made clear progress and we are seeing ISIS begin to lose its grip on their self - declared capital in Raqqa.»

BEIRUT, March 23 - Syrian rebels left one besieged enclave on Friday and agreed to abandon another, leaving only the city of Douma still in insurgent hands in eastern Ghouta after a month - long army assault to drive them from the stronghold near Damascus.

Born into a nomadic tribe in the Syrian desert to a poor mother who was raped by his father and died when he was young, Altrad was raised by his grandmother, who banned him from attending school, in Raqqa, the city that is now capital of ISIS.

Assad noted that the Russian - backed Syrian army was now «very close» to Raqqa city after advancing to the western banks of the Euphrates River this week — a rapid gain that has brought it to the frontier of areas held by the U.S. - backed forces.

The seizure in June of the Castello Road, the last remaining route into the rebel - held eastern section of the city, by pro-government forces aided by Russian air support, made life even more difficult for the 300,000 Syrians still living there.

Kurdish forces had pulled back to Syrian government - controlled areas around the city of Aleppo, or to the Kurdish - held region east of the Euphrates river, he said.

«Afrin city centre is under control as of 8:30 this morning,» Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a rally commemorating the World War One Gallipoli campaign, adding that Turkish and Free Syrian Army flags had been raised in the town centre.

Syrian government forces regained control of a key road to the northern city of Aleppo after making advances against Islamic State fighters on Monday, a monitoring group and state television Continue Reading

Victoria Prentis, Conservative MP for Oxford North, was speaking as the war reaches a climax, with reports up to 100,000 people remain trapped in the city of Aleppo after the Syrian government, backed by Russia, virtually recaptured it on Tuesday.

Speaking on Premier's News Hour Jeremy Moodey, from Embrace the Middle East, said: «The bombardment of the city [of Raqqa] by Syrian and also Russian forces has got much worse.

A Syrian priest in the city of Aleppo has said things are worse than they ever have been since war in... More

The government of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad says that it has recaptured the entire city of Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kurdish officials say more than 40 of the ISIS fighters were killed as Kurdish forces reclaimed the city over the weekend.

The number is virtually unchanged (71 %) from when Ipsos / World Vision asked the same question in October, before the City of Lights experienced tragedy and American politicians began debating state bans on Syrian refugees in response.

10 So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, «We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.»

Following the fighting between ISIS and the Syrian army, at least 1,400 families fled the town to safer areas or took shelter in the government - controlled city of Homs, reports the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights.

Since the Syrian army launched an offensive starting late last week (when the ceasefire ended), dozens of airstrikes have hit the rebel - held city of Aleppo city in Syria.

Entering the Old City at the historic Jaffa Gate, Demetrios was ceremonially welcomed by the bishops and priests of the Greek Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, Israeli government and municipal officials, a police honor guard, six bemedaled consuls - general, representatives of the Roman Catholic, Armenian, Syrian Orthodox and Ethiopian churches, two uniformed Dragomen, a baton tossing drum - major, the Arab Orthodox Boy Scout drum and bugle corps, uniformed schoolgirls, scores of monks, nuns, reporters, cameramen and a smattering of curious tourists.

Most of the Syrians here fled from the outskirts of Hama, a northern city that's been hit hard by Syria's two - and - a-half-year civil war.