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Obaida Hitto

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 26, 2026
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Obaida Hitto

    An unexpected welcome: Syrian Kurds return to their homes in Afrin (opens the original)

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    Afrin, Syria – When Dilshad Hamdo walked into the home his father built 30 years ago, there was no place to sit. The stone walls were intact, but the rooms had been stripped bare. Yet, standing in the empty space, there was still a strong sense of relief at being back home. “I have a lot of memories in this house with my extended family. There is nothing like the house and the land,” Hamdo told Al Jazeera. Hamdo fled Afrin as a young man in early 2018, during a Turkish-led military offensive, du

  2. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Obaida Hitto

    ‘People don’t have money’: Syrian fuel hikes deepen economic pain (opens the original)

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    Damascus, Syria – The fuel price hike hit at midnight on Sunday. By Monday morning, frustration had poured into the streets, sparking open defiance across Syria. A sudden government decree drove diesel prices up by 40 percent overnight and petrol by 28 percent. For millions of Syrians, the price increase is a direct threat to their survival. Demonstrators quickly gathered in public squares from Aleppo and Idlib in the north to Hama in central Syria and Deraa in the south, burning tyres and block

  3. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Obaida Hitto

    Syria in tough balancing act as it tightens security after Damascus blasts (opens the original)

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    Damascus, Syria – Authorities have tightened security across Damascus following a series of bomb blasts that have shaken the Syrian capital and tested the limits of the country’s transitional government. The Ministry of Interior implemented a series of precautionary protective measures, including heavily armed patrols, following a deadly explosion at a cafe on July 2 and a twin bombing on Tuesday during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron. Checkpoints have been re-established at critical

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