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Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Aug 18, 2021

AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images — A wedding convoy drives past Abu Ali's cafe, set up on the ground floor of a building heavily damaged during the civil war, in the Syrian town of Ariha in the rebel-held northwestern Syrian Idlib province, on July 11, 2021. — AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images

Syria aid

How Syria's Assad is using aid access to hasten normalization

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

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Hopes dim in stranded Syrian camp near US military base

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

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Syrian aid agencies brace for vote on border crossing: 'There is no Plan B'

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

Members of the Syrian Violet NGO set up triage tents for suspected coronavirus patients outside the Ibn Sina Hospital in Syria's northwestern Idlib city on March 19, 2020. - Syrian authorities on March 13 announced measures aimed at preventing coronavirus from reaching the war-torn country, including school closures and a ban on smoking shisha in cafes, state media reported. (Photo by Abdulaziz KETAZ / AFP) (Photo by ABDULAZIZ KETAZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Doctors in northwest Syria brace for ‘devastating’ coronavirus

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights