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How ISIS and coalition airstrikes combined to terrorise Raqqa

Amid Syria’s civil war, Raqqa became known the world over for being the stage of some of the most horrific episodes of violence perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State.

Belgium

From refuge in Belgium, a painter depicts Syria’s war through art

Amid Syria's civil war Ahmad Sheer was left with a choice he never wanted to have to make: to flee his country, or join in the fighting

Spain

From torture in jail, to refuge in Madrid: A Syrian’s civil war story

Ten years since the start of the conflict in Syria that has killed half a million people, a Syrian journalist recounts how he spent nearly eight years dodging police, bullets and bombs, before finding refuge in Madrid.

Syria

Syria’s war at 10: Meet two escapees who rebuilt their lives in Europe

Razan Ibraheem, Irish Tatler's 2016 International Woman of the Year, and Ahmed Barakat, who now works for the IOM, look back with Euronews over a decade of conflict.

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World

Displaced Syrian children have 'lost connection' with own country

One in three children would rather be living outside Syria according to a Save the Children's study of 1,900 displaced children and their caregivers across Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the Netherlands. The study found the vast majority can’t imagine a future in their parents' country of origin.

Turkey

In photographs: children document life on Turkish-Syrian border

The student's projects have become a vivid documentation of life in eastern Turkey through the eyes of children, as they focus on the subjects they find the most remarkable.

Syria

Turkey shoots down two Syrian government warplanes

Two of Syrian warplanes were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, the country's official news agency SANA reported on Sunday. Earlier that day, pro-government Syrian forces downed a Turkish drone.

Syria

216,000 civilians have fled amid Syria offensive — relief group

Government forces have been bombarding southern and eastern Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country, since late November.

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Maaret al-Numan becomes ghost town as residents flee bombing

At least eight people, including five children, were on Christmas Eve in Russian airstrikes in northwest Syria.

Turkey

Turkey warns Europe of new refugee wave as Syrian forces advance

"Turkey cannot handle a new refugee wave from Syria," Erdogan said, adding that 80,000 people from Syria's Idlib had fled toward the Turkish border.

Syria

Parents of Europe's IS fighters in struggle to repatriate loved ones

The parents of a French man who ran away to Syria to join Islamic State have talked about their struggle to find out what happened to their son.

Syria

Exclusive: Europeans who joined ISIS face Iraqi justice

French women who fled the so-called caliphate tell Euronews: 'I would never have come.'

Turkey

Syrian refugee,18, deported to Idlib, is allowed back into Turkey

Euronews spoke to Amjad Tablieh's brother Ahmad who alleged he was taken instantly taken to a detention centre after a police control in Istanbul found he didn't have his ID with him.

Syria

Euroviews. A Syrian refugee can teach us about hope and endurance ǀ View

Then I met Shaza. A 30-year-old from Homs whose determination to work for a better future for everyone, despite all that she’s been through, put me to shame and busted the stereotype of a hopeless and desperate refugee wide open.

World

Road Trip Europe Day 48 Munster: How refugees have settled in the city

Despite talk of a refugee "crisis", in Munster the absorption of displaced people into the local community seems to be working well.

World

Erdogan, Merkel hope to defuse tensions as two leaders meet

Preparations are underway in the German capital as the Turkish leader hails trip as a chance for the two nations to carve a new beginning after years of souring relations.

Syria

Russia announces return of more than 100,00 Syrian refugees

In its latest report on the process of returning refugees to Syria, The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced the return of over 70,000 Syrian refugees to Eastern Ghouta from refugee and internally displaced person (IDP) camps.

Russia

Russia proposes plan to US to begin return of refugees to Syria

The Russian Federation has sent a proposal package to the US on organising the return of an estimated 1.7 million Syrian refugees to pre-war areas of Syria, TASS reports.

Turkey

Turkey stops registereing alsylum seekers from Syria- rights group

Turkey stops registering asylum seekers from Syria, says Human Rights Watch.