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Syria holds strategic importance for Moscow and Tehran, which have both bolstered Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime at critical moments. Why the Syrian conflict is so important for Russia and ...
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 ...
By late November 2013, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) report entitled "Violence against Women, Bleeding Wound in the Syrian Conflict", approximately 6,000 women have been raped (including gang-rape) since the start of the conflict – with figures likely to be much higher given that most cases go unreported ...
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 ...
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.
While in Syria, N. allegedly tried to persuade people living in Germany to also go to Syria to become a member of Jabhat al-Nusra. She also temporarily took in a woman who had been persuaded to ...
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.
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 ]