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Ahmed Read Jamus

Ahmed Read Jamus is a Syrian freelance journalist. On Twitter: @yakotalread

A picture taken during a tour organized by the Syrian Ministry of Information shows a Syrian national flag and cars in the district of Daraa al-Balad, Daraa, Syria, Sept. 12, 2021.

Jihadists accuse HTS of conspiring with Syrian government to kill IS leader

Ahmed Read Jamus

Ahmed Read Jamus

Turkish troops are pictured in the area of Kafr Jannah on the outskirts of the Syrian town of Afrin on Oct. 18, 2022.

Syrian jihadist group HTS, armed groups agree to uneasy truce

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Ahmed Read Jamus

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Culture

Careless logging deforests northwest Syria

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Risks of fire, heat stroke soar as heat wave cooks northwest Syria

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Ahmed Read Jamus

The Assyrian Church of the Virgin Mary, which was previously destroyed in 2015 by the Islamic State, in the village of Tal Nasri, south of the town of Tal Tamr, Hasakah province, Syria, Nov. 15, 2019.

Assyrian family properties in Syria threatened by illegal seizures

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Ahmed Read Jamus

A Syrian beekeeper picks honey from his hives.

Culture

Beekeepers feel sting in northern Syria

A member of the border guard force loyal to the Syrian Democratic Forces looks from a position in the countryside near the town of al-Hol at construction work on a concrete border fence erected on the Iraqi side, Hasakah province, Syria, March 29, 2022.

Tribal violence haunts northeastern Syria

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Ahmed Read Jamus

A farmer ploughs a wheat field in the countryside of the northeastern city of Qamishli, on Sept. 18, 2021.

Syria’s bread basket lies empty

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Ahmed Read Jamus

A Syrian beekeeper prepares medicine to inject into hives at a bee farm in the rebel-controlled town of Hamouria, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Oct. 2, 2016. Honey is used as a homoeopathic treatment for burns and wounds.

Syrians resort to herbal medicine amid drug crisis

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Ahmed Read Jamus

A physician treats a premature born baby lying in an incubator at the neonatal intensive care unit at Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Hospital that is part of the Syrian American Medical Society, Idlib, Syria, Feb. 1, 2022.

Despite unrest, northwest Syria shows baby boom

Ahmed Read Jamus

Ahmed Read Jamus