By Anna Pratt Abdul Kafi Alhamdo, an English teacher, fled to Idlib in northwest Syria from his home in Aleppo when Assad forces closed in on his city and the Russian airstrikes intensified eight years ago. He said that when the rebel forces retook Aleppo about a week ago, he dropped everything and drove there […]
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By Anna Pratt Russian state news agencies reported on Sunday that Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad and his family fled to Russia hours after a stunning rebel advance seized control of Damascus and ended his family’s 50 years of iron rule. Thousands of Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire and waved the revolutionary flag […]
By Anna Pratt In the maternity ward of one of Kabul’s main hospitals in the summer of 2018, Feroza Mushtari, who was then the health adviser to the first lady of Afghanistan, was eager to share what her country had achieved in maternal health. “You can see lots of progress,” the midwife said during a […]