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Request QuoteFreelance journalist and Beirut correspondent for Monocle magazine based in Lebanon
Refused refuge in the occupied Golan Heights, civilians displaced in southwest Syria face a new range of threats. Their plight lies in stark contrast with the Israelis flocking to the disputed region for war tourism just a few kilometres away.
Khalid Taalo Khudhur al-Ali fled with his wife and children as Islamic State militants attacked their town in Iraq in 2014, but 19 other members of his family were captured. Over the last four years he has paid $90,000 for the release of 10 of them. But now, after the defeat of IS, he fears that any survivors may be beyond his reach.
Will the Lebanese group stick around in Syria, and how will it repair its image among ordinary citizens?
British and European authorities have been distracted by Syrian refugees arriving on their shores, and concerned with integrating those unable to return home. Around half of Syria’s pre-war population, around 13 million people, is now displaced, but the reality is more than half of them – some 6.7 million individuals - have been forced to move within their own country’s borders.
More than 30,000 people were missing at the end of the Bosnian conflict in 1995. Scientists are making a last-ditch attempt to identify and bury the 8,000 for whom the search continues.
Omar al-Shogre describes his horrific ordeal in Syrian regime prisons, which taught him to treasure his humanity.
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