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Monday
The White Helmets search for unexploded ordnance in Homs, Syria, on Jan. 29. Yahya Nemah for NPR hide caption
With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new mission
Wednesday
Abdul Rahman Hamdan, 32, recounts how his uncle was killed by Israeli troops who attacked their village of Koayiah, Syria. Yahya Nemah for NPR hide caption
Friday
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday. Hassan Ammar/AP hide caption
Wednesday
Wednesday
A flag with a photo of Abdel Basset al-Sarout is seen in Homs, Syria, on Jan. 31. Yahya Nemah for NPR hide caption
A voice of the Syrian revolution was killed. But the man who wrote his anthems lives
Tuesday
Monday
Western sanctions are holding Syria back from rebuilding, locals say
Tuesday
A voice of the Syrian revolution was killed. But the man who wrote his anthems lives
Monday
A worker walks through a mudd streets in the Jaramana Camp on the edge of Damascus, Syria. About 13,000 Palestinian refugees live in the camp. Greg Myre/NPR hide caption
Tuesday
Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, performs a pilgrimage in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, on Monday. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
A fruit stand is lit by a battery-powered lamp on a blackened street in Damascus, the capital of Syria. Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption
Friday
Lebanese citizens return to their homes heavily damaged by Israeli attacks, after Israeli forces withdraw from the area in An-Naqoura, Lebanon, on Thursday. Ramiz Dallah/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Children carry a haul of scrap found after rummaging through a mountain of trash in Tadamon, Syria, on Jan. 21. The suburb of the capital, Damascus, has no electricity or running water and many of its residents live in poverty. Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption
As Syria rebuilds, hope collides with painful memories in one Damascus neighborhood
Tuesday
Thursday
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun new president, on Thursday, in Beirut, Lebanon. Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Lebanon chooses new president after two years without one
Wednesday
Monday
Rafaat Nasrallah smokes a cigarette in his village on the Syria-Lebanon border. "We are at the border," he says, "our roads lead to Syria, because for us Syria is my country as well as Lebanon." Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption
Tuesday
Thursday
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, in the Bekaa Valley, on Thursday. Nidal Solh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
An ambulance believed to be carrying wounded people — after multiple explosions were heard during the funeral of four Hezbollah fighters who were killed Tuesday after their pagers exploded — drives down a street in a southern suburb of Beirut on Wednesday. Bilal Hussein/AP hide caption
Monday
People await their flights at the Beirut International Airport departure hall on Monday. Urgent calls grew for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon, which would be on the front line of a regional war, as Iran and its allies readied their response to high-profile killings blamed on Israel. /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
A view of buildings shows damage after what security sources said was a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, on Tuesday. Ahmad Al-Kerdi/Reuters hide caption
Blast rocks Beirut after Israel vows to strike at Hezbollah for rocket attack
Thursday
Sara Miliji, 12, from the border village of Naqoura, participates in an art class at a renovated movie theatre in the city of Tyre. Sara's family fled when their village was bombed. They now live along with hundreds of other families in a schoolroom turned into a shelter.
Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NPR
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