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March 8, 2013
12:17 am

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 photo, Syrian citizens walk in front of a church that was shelled by mortars, at the Christian village of Judeida, in Idlib province, Syria (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Civil war leaves Syrian minorities with no clear options

As Assad’s regime battles a rebellion, the old order that governed relations between the country’s myriad sects and ethnicities is fraying

By Steve Negus

March 5, 2013
9:47 pm

In this Tuesday February 26, 2013 file photo, Free Syrian Army fighters take their positions as they observe the Syrian army forces base of Wadi al-Deif, at the front line of Maaret al-Numan town, in Idlib province, Syria. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla, File)

Syrian rebels’ northern advance slows

Around 3,000 of Maaret al-Numan’s estimated 85,000 inhabitants remain in captured city

By Steve Negus

March 1, 2013
3:42 am

Nihal, 9, puts olive tree branches inside a wooden stove at an underground Roman tomb which his family uses for shelter from government shelling and airstrikes, at Jebel al-Zawiya, in Idlib province, Syria, on Thursday. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Syrians literally blasted back into Stone Age

In war-ravaged north, bombed-out residents and rebels make use of country’s wealth of ancient sites for shelter

By Steve Negus