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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Ben Hubbard |David Guttenfelder
Syria DISPATCHDuring a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments reduced to rubble. Credit... The towering stone columns of the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria rise majestically from the desert sands, lining the main avenue that once connected its temples, markets and amphitheater.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Christina Goldbaum |David Guttenfelder
A sectarian-fueled killing spree exposed how fragile peace is in Syria, where the government's control is limited and tension runs deep after nearly 14 years of civil war. In the center of Baniyas, emergency workers had turned a looted furniture store into a makeshift morgue, filled with dead bodies in body bags, in early March. A sectarian-fueled killing spree exposed how fragile peace is in Syria, where the government's control is limited and tension runs deep after nearly 14 years of civil war.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Ben Hubbard |Hwaida Saad |David Guttenfelder
Syria's civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and one-third Muslim. Can they live together peacefully again? The mountainside town of Maaloula, Syria, which has long had a Christian-majority population. Syria's civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and one-third Muslim. Can they live together peacefully again?
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall |David Guttenfelder
More than 50 tanks and military vehicles lay scattered and abandoned across the parade and training grounds of an army base in northern Syria, captured by rebels in their lightning-fast offensive that toppled President Bashar al-Assad. The main garrison building bore the marks of two large explosions, but little sign of close-contact fighting. The assault was over in a day when the Syrian soldiers retreated, said Abu Muhammad, a rebel fighter guarding the base.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | C.J. Chivers |David Guttenfelder
Outnumbered and desperate, the nation began hacking cheap consumer UAVs with explosives - bringing a brutal new form of terror to 21st-century warfare. Trader, a Ukrainian drone technician, preparing for an attack. Credit... Listen to this article, read by Robert Fass The sweep - the controlled choreography of a mechanical dragonfly - allowed Prorok and Buryi to scan the smoldering spot.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall |David Guttenfelder
Tragedy touched nearly every family in Homs during the brutal Assad campaign. The people of Homs turned out for peaceful protests in the spring of 2011, joining the call for justice that was rippling through the Arab world. They were cautious at first, aware of how the former president, Hafez al-Assad - Bashar al-Assad's father - had crushed a 1982 rebellion in the nearby city of Hama, killing thousands of civilians in one of the bloodiest episodes in recent Middle Eastern history.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall |David Guttenfelder
And, Mr. al-Ageid added, the rebels encountered fewer airstrikes than usual, and there was a new and notable weakness on the side of the Assad government. Its soldiers withdrew from their post in the town before the main fighting started, as they risked being encircled by the rebel advance, he said. Hezbollah and Iranian militias, which had supported the Syrian government and held frontline positions several miles from Tel Rifaat, had already reduced their presence in recent months.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Christina Goldbaum |Hwaida Saad |David Guttenfelder
The patrolbegins at dusk every night, as the thuds from nearby artillery echo over the distant hills in southern Lebanon. Some scouts settle into hidden perches on the outskirts of town, keeping close watch on the roads leading into it. Others hop on their motorcycles and roam the streets, alerting the police to any suspicious cars or strangers. The volunteer force describes itself as the first line of defense in Hasbayya, a mostly Druse and Christian town near the Lebanese-Israeli border.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Alissa J. Rubin |David Guttenfelder
At dusk, the parking lot of Tripoli's Quality Inn is packed with cars and families milling about. Children's shouts fill the air, reminding some of better times, when the hotel hosted weddings and birthdays parties. Now, though, the cars in the lot are dusty and battered, the families sit on patches of grass, their faces worn with worry, and the children play in a drained swimming pool.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | David Guttenfelder
La Dahiya, un conjunto de barrios de la periferia sur de Beirut, la capital libanesa, estaba en ruinas, con humo aún saliendo entre los escombros de los edificios destruidos. El ejército israelí ha advertido a los civiles libaneses que evacúen muchas zonas mientras prosigue su campaña para eliminar a los dirigentes del grupo militante y partido político Hizbulá, quienes viven entre la población general. Dahiya ha sido un bastión del grupo militante.
