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Politics and Diplomacy Health catastrophe looms in northwest Syria Hospitals in northwest Syria are closing or limiting services at an alarming rate.
Syria US special forces raid kills head of Islamic State Heaps of rubble and a collapsed roof are all that’s left of the home of the former leader of the Islamic State, evidence of a US military operation months in the making. Al-Monitor's Joe Snell reports.
Politics and Diplomacy Islamic State prison break in northeast Syria The Islamic State earlier this month attacked a prison in northeast Syria that held as many as 5,000 members of the extremist group. Kurdish-led forces, backed by the US, regained control of the complex, but it's unclear how many IS militants escaped. The search is now underway to find them. Al-Monitor's Joe Snell reports.
Syria Snowstorms create deadly conditions for displaced Syrians Heavy snowstorms blasted NW Syria this month. Displaced Syrians now contend with freezing temperatures that have frozen water systems, large blankets of snow that have collapsed shelters and closed roadways, and renewed threats of flooding as the snow melts.
Syria Children in Syria collect, dismantle war shells Scavenging through fields in the Idlib countryside, Syrian children carry war remnants to a scrap yard to be sorted and arranged into cargo trucks for transportation to buyers. The debris of war has become their livelihood. Read more here.
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