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Syria's rebel leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has dismissed the online controversy over videos showing him gesturing to a young woman to cover her hair before he posed for a photo with her last week.
In northern Syria, east of the Euphrates River, a women’s militia has been battling ISIS -- and battling the odds. "We just want peace. We just want women to live safe," says Lana.
The Women's Affairs Office (Arabic: مكتب شؤون المرأة) is a department of the Government of Syria.It was created on 22 December 2024 by the Syrian transitional government in the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime [1] as part of broader efforts to include Syrian women in political and social leadership.
Syrian female artists in Syria's northwestern Idlib province have been creating murals on the blank walls within their communities, using them as a way to communicate messages or images since before the outbreak of the civil war in 2011. Artist Yafa Diab said she had been painting birds, roses and nature until the outbreak of the war, after ...
The Syrian military defector codenamed Caesar, who smuggled out more than 53,000 haunting images showing tortured, emaciated corpses of Syrian detainees – evidence that led to landmark sanctions ...
The Women's Protection Units [a] (YPJ) or Women's Defense Units is an all-female militia involved in the Syrian civil war. [9] The YPJ is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces , the armed forces of Rojava , and is closely affiliated with the male-led YPG . [ 10 ]
Ten years after they left home to live with IS in Syria, Kyrgyz women are being allowed to go home.
Jody Williams of the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict has said of the sexual violence being visited on the men, women and children of Syria, "With every war and major conflict, as an international community we say 'never again' to mass rape, Yet, in Syria, as countless women are again finding the war waged on ...