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I sparked Syria’s revolution as a teenage boy – now I’m here to finish it

ON THE GROUND: Muawiyah Syasneh was 16 when his anti-Assad graffiti on a school wall led to his arrest, sparking protests that ended in civil war. Now, in the very same spot, he tells chief international correspondent Bel Trew about the years-long war – and his role in bringing it…

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‘They used us as a testing ground for all kinds of weapons’: Syrians return to destroyed town

ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew visits Jobar – north of Damascus – which was devastated by some of the fiercest battles of the civil war. She meets residents returning home for the first time in more than a decade. Both they, and Syria itself, face major challenges in starting anew

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‘We think he died just before regime collapsed’: Syrians scour morgues full of tortured bodies

SPECIAL DISPATCH: From Assad’s slaughterhouse jail to the hospital morgue piled up with mutilated bodies, desperate Syrians search for family members disappeared under a despot’s brutal regime, reports Bel Trew

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The Independent’s Bel Trew shows struggle of crossing Syria border after fall of Assad dictatorship

A border that would have been populated by Bashar al-Assad's regime forces was deserted as The Independent international correspondent Bel Trew crossed over from Lebanon.

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‘Death is chasing us’: Syrian refugees flee Lebanon airstrikes straight into jaws of fresh war against Assad

SPECIAL REPORT: Bel Trew and Rana Najjar speak to those who have tried to escape Israeli strikes, only to find themselves on the front of another conflict, and visit a refugee camp in Lebanon to speak to those who fear for their relatives

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Ghost towns rattled by sporadic gunfire: Tensions run high in fragile Lebanese-Israeli ceasefire

On the ground: Three days after Israel and Hezbollah agreed a ceasefire, Bel Trew visits the decimated towns on the southern Lebanese border where locals are not yet allowed to return

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Lebanon counts cost of the war between Israel and Hezbollah: ‘We need a miracle to rebuild’

ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew and Rana Najjar meet residents in and around Beirut looking to reconstruct their lives as a fragile ceasefire holds

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Abortion rights won major victories on Election Day. But Trump and his allies could threaten them

Trump says he wants to leave reproductive healthcare up to the states, where millions of women delivered a powerful rebuke to anti-abortion laws. Lawyers and civil rights groups are bracing for what’s next, Alex Woodward and Bel Trew report

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‘Devil, we’ve had enough’: Inside the Christian nationalist movement to outlaw abortion

Evangelical activists spent decades using the levers of power and the courts to enforce an anti-abortion agenda. Pro-democracy Christian groups and pastors are pushing back, Alex Woodward reports

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America’s ‘war on women’: The Independent’s film and investigative series examines reproductive rights post-Roe

THE A-WORD: ‘The A-Word’, a new documentary by The Independent, investigates the state of reproductive rights two years after the Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion, sending shockwaves through American healthcare

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Gaza hostage families blast air raid siren outside Netanyahu’s home as wake up call to agree release deal

Relatives march in Jerusalem on anniversary of Hamas attack in which their loved ones were taken to urge Israeli PM to bring them home, writes Bel Trew, while airstrikes continue in both Gaza and Lebanon

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‘I didn’t see the sun for 10 months’: American journalist reveals her ordeal in a Russian prison

Alsu Kurmasheva was among 16 people freed in the largest US Russian post-Soviet prisoner swap. She tells Bel Trew about life in prison and the moment she was snatched from her mother’s apartment by a swarm of men in black masks

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Gaza hostage families beg Netanyahu to agree ceasefire deal: ‘Last chance to bring them home alive’

In Tel Aviv, Bel Trew speaks to loved ones of those still held in Gaza about the need for a deal that will bring their relatives home – and end the bloodshed

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‘We’ve all broken the Ten Commandments’: Evangelical Christians on why they’re still backing Trump

‘I’m not voting for a pastor. I’m voting for someone that leads the country,’ conservative Christians tell Bel Trew at the Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC

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The families forced to flee the clashes on the Lebanon-Israeli border: ‘A shell landed in the garden’

Alongside the bombardment of Gaza, Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging artillery and missile fire on the Lebanese border. Bel Trew travels to Tyre to speak to families who have fled the border regions to escape the fighting, with a number of them having had to flee war before

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Bethlehem prays for peace in Gaza: ‘I have never seen a Christmas like this’

Normally at this time of year, Bethlehem is full of thousands visiting one of Christianity’s most holy cities. But Bel Trew finds empty streets, shuttered shops and a central square without its famous Christmas tree. Church leaders say the situation in Gaza makes any form of celebration impossible – and…

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How a sniper’s bullets utterly shattered the last vestiges of sanctuary in Gaza’s only Catholic church

Hundreds of Palestinian Christians already faced dwindling food, dirty water and the constant fear of bombs as they sought shelter from Israel’s war on Hamas in northern Gaza, before a mother and daughter were shot trying to reach the toilet at the Holy Family Church. Bel Trew speaks to the…

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The Independent’s Bel Trew wins prestigious journalism award

Chief international correspondent Bel Trew was described as one of the world’s leading foreign correspondents at the British Journalism Awards

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Locked up with no charge, Palestinian prisoners tell of pain and sorrow as they are freed in hostage exchange

Dozens of women and children released from prison in Israel were held without trial or charge, a practice rights group says violates international law, writes Bel Trew

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A Pennsylvania family waited weeks to be evacuated from Gaza. Then they were bombed

Palestinian-Americans say they have been treated like second-class citizens by the US government in their efforts to evacuate from Gaza, Richard Hall writes.

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Beatings, threats at gunpoint and fleeing in terror: Inside the most aggressive West Bank land grab in 50 years

Bel Trew visits villages in the occupied West Bank and hears harrowing tales of settler violence in which Palestinian families describe being forced from their homes – in what human rights groups say is the single biggest land grab since Israel captured the region in 1967

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The Independent highly commended at prestigious press awards

The Independent was praised as one of the daily newspapers of the year, while chief international correspondent Bel Trew was highly commended for her brave reporting from Ukraine

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‘Kfar Aza smells of death’: Inside the Israeli border village where ‘babies were slaughtered’ in Hamas attack

Warning: Distressing content ‘When Hamas came they cut the heads of women and children,’ an Israeli major claims while making a chopping motion towards his neck, writes Bel Trew. The bodies are hidden so it’s impossible to verify, but it is clear much blood has been shed in the village…

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‘We still don’t know if my brother made it’: Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh worry for missing relatives

In just a few days more than 100,000 people have fled the separatist enclave, fearing persecution as Azerbaijani forces closed in, Bel Trew writes

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A People lost: The end of Nagorno Karabakh’s fight for independence

From the mountainous border of Nagorno Karabakh, as more than 100,000 Armenians flee the breakaway enclave, Bel Trew reports on the people who believe the world has abandoned them

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