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Syria's First lady Asma Al Assad in recovery

Where’s your conscience Asma?

As Syria's first lady recovers from breast cancer Yvonne Ridley points out some of the female prisoners in Assad's prisons are fighting...

How did he wind up on Obama’s kill list? In a rare one-to-one interview, Kareem talks frankly about his near-death experiences

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Bilal Abdul Kareem; I was on the US Kill list by Obama WTX News Exclusive interview part 2

How did he wind up on Obama’s kill list? In a rare one-to-one interview, Kareem talks frankly about his near-death experiences, the...

WTX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Bilal Abdul Kareem breaks his silence about his life covering the Syrian war and surviving a US kill list

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WTX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Journalist on American kill list talks exclusively to WTX News

WTX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Bilal Abdul Kareem breaks his silence about his life covering the Syrian war and surviving a US kill list

Amputee children in Syria - Her mother made a device from leather, so that she can use it to walk on her knees.

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Little Naseem learns to walk tall despite brutality of Syrian regime bombs

Shamima Begum ISIS Bride - bring her home

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Bring groomed ISIS bride home

She was a child. She was groomed online and now it is clear she is traumatised and brutalised by living with the...

The UN has verified 7,000 cases of children either killed or maimed in Syria's seven-year war, but says unverified reports puts the number way beyond 20,000.

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The Hidden War – What the war is really about in Syria

The UN has verified 7,000 cases of children either killed or maimed in Syria's seven-year war, but says unverified reports puts the...

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Charity Commission red tape draws anger in Syria

The ongoing struggle for access to assistive technology is something which causes huge frustration among medical staff

I am still haunted by the harrowing accounts told to me by Syrian women who were torture victims in prisons in Aleppo, Homs, Damascus

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Why Idlib is being viewed as the turning point in the Syrian war

this conflict has cost the lives of between 500,000 and one million civilians, displaced more than half of the country's 22 million population

In Response to Israel's Latest Massacre in Gaza

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A roundup of TWSF with Yvonne Ridley – Brexit debris & the Bull@#*t around Idlib

The Week So far covers so much TWSF - Brexit, Syria and YouTube removed a hate advert from far right Britain First's...

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AJ’s new rap song in Syria – Viral

While in northern Syria WTX’s Yvonne Ridley stumbled across a rising new star in the world of grime ... and he’s from...

British Aid worker freed after a dramatic fight in Idlib

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Abandoned by UK, Birmingham Aid worker taken by kidnap gang in Syria is freed – see dramatic video of his rescue

It ended even more dramatically as armed militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), stormed a remote mountain-top house where the Birmingham aid worker...

Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus

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Israel attacks Syrian Damascus Airport

Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus #WTX News Journalist on the ground provides an exclusive report.

Jeremy Corbyn calls Theresa May a Stupid Woman

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US military quits Syria but all eyes are focused on Corbyn’s lips!

News headlines focus on what Corbyn did or din't say to May while editors miss the big story of US military pulling...

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School ground bullies must never be allowed to win

A video recorded by school ground bullies went viral and finally shamed English police and school authorities to act in defence of an injured Syrian refugee boy.