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Planting Azolla empowers Jordan’s women farmers

A farming collective of Syrian and Jordanian women in water-poor Mafraq is growing Azolla and changing their lives.

Al Jazeera

Syrian refugee recounts being stranded in Greek sea as coastguards watch and do nothing

Speaking from a temporary encampment in Athens, 24-year-old Ayad from Syria, said the Greek coastguard did not send help for at least three hours after the boat capsized

Daily Mirror

Emotional reunion for Syrian brothers after Greece shipwreck amid despair as UN warns up to 500 missing

A massive search operation continued on Friday but hopes of finding more survivors were dwindling amid a growing row over action to help before vessel sank

Evening Standard

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The EU's political tightrope in Syria: Supporting Syrians without normalising Assad

Since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, the European Union has been the largest donor of humanitarian, stabilisation and resilience assistance to Syrians, with another conference known as Brussels VII – aimed at supporting Syria and the region – held on June 14 and 15 in the Belgian…

France 24

Fight to repatriate Aust women, kids from Syrian camp

A fight has begun for the repatriation of eight Australian women and their 18 children from a Syrian refugee camp where they've been held for up to four years.

AAP

Islamic State soldier from Michigan sentenced in rare terrorism case

DETROIT — An ISIS soldier from Dearborn captured while fighting alongside the terror group in Syria five years ago was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in federal prison.

Tribune News Service

Relatives fear worst with four men and a boy missing after Mediterranean ship disaster

Four men and a 14-year-old boy from the Sheikhi family set out for Europe

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Donors stump up $6.1 bn for Syrians, as EU stays anti-Assad

BRUSSELS - International donors led by the EU on Thursday pledged 5.6 billion euros ($6.1 billion) for Syrian refugees, but Brussels stressed it will not ease its stance on President Bashar al-Assad's government.

Bangkok Post

Families of missing Syrians urge UN to create institution for the 'disappeared'

Three Syrians whose family members were forcibly disappeared during the civil war were at the United Nations this week to lobby for the creation of an Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic. The UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution calling for the…

France 24

Refugee Week: Ben and Jerry’s creates ice cream with refugee entrepreneurs

The new flavour was inspired by the food and culture of Morocco, Afghanistan and Syria

Evening Standard

Donor nations scramble to find billions of dollars of funding for Syrian aid

Donor nations from across the globe are scrambling to find billions in dollars to extend their aid commitment to millions of Syrians who have been battered by hunger, poverty, civil war and a massive earthquake

The Independent UK

‘The people don’t want us’: inside a camp for Iraqis returned from Syrian detention

Exclusive: As Iraq steps up transfers from al-Hawl, interviews with returnees raise questions over a process mired in complexities

The Guardian - UK

‘We felt that we are one’: how Turkish musicians welcomed Syrian refugees

Anti-Syrian sentiment has surged in Turkey, but the music scene has gone the opposite way – embracing cultural acceptance and cohesion

The Guardian - UK

Interview: Why the Islamic State group is 'returning to its roots' in the Syrian desert

Some of the remaining members of the Islamic State organisation – those who escaped death or imprisonment after losing their territory in 2019 – have made their way to Badia, a vast desert in the centre of Syria. The IS group carries out frequent attacks on the nomadic Bedouins who…

France 24

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As conditions for Syrians worsen, aid organizations struggle to catch the world's attention again

Aid agencies will struggle to draw the world’s attention back to Syria at an annual donor conference hosted by the European Union in Brussels for humanitarian aid to Syrians

Al Jazeera

UN food agency says will slash Syria aid by about half

World Food Programme funding crisis means aid will be cut to 2.5 million of 5.5 million people reliant on agency.

The Independent UK

Helicopter ‘mishap’ injures 22 American troops in Syria

A military statement said service members were receiving treatment and 10 were moved to “higher care facilities” outside the region

The Independent UK

Helicopter accident in Syria leaves 22 American troops injured, US military says

A military statement said service members were receiving treatment and 10 were moved to “higher care facilities” outside the region

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US military says helicopter accident in northeastern Syria left 22 American troops injured

The United States military says a helicopter accidents in northeastern Syria over the weekend has left 22 U.S. service members injured to various degree

Al Jazeera

US says 22 soldiers injured in Syria helicopter accident

Enemy fire not reported at time of US helicopter ‘mishap’ in northeast Syria where hundreds of US soldiers are based.

The Guardian - UK

Gillian Anderson and Stanley Tucci back calls to rescue British families in Syria

Estimated 60 children among those trapped in detention camps since Islamic State collapse

Evening Standard

Vanessa Kirby, Stanley Tucci and Gillian Anderson back campaign to repatriate UK families detained in Syria

British children are exposed to violence and trafficking, advocates say

The Independent UK

Iraq urges countries to repatriate their citizens from camp housing families of extremist IS group

Iraq is urging countries that have citizens in a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of mostly women and children linked to the Islamic State group to repatriate their nationals

Daily Record

Scot leading humanitarian response to Syria earthquake says it was worse than war zone

Erlend Linklater told how the killer 7.8 magnitude earthquake earlier this year did more damage in 80 seconds than cities flattened by months of military bombing.

Daily Mirror

Comedian Alex Brooker close to tears after meeting children who fled war-torn Syria

Soccer Aid star Alex Brooker formed a special bond with a disabled girl called Elan who had a 3D hand fitted thanks to a partnership with UNICEF at the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan

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