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Cian Ward

Cian Ward

Cian Ward is a freelance journalist based in Beirut who covers conflict and political and humanitarian issues.

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Returning to Devastation in South Lebanon

Returning to Devastation in South Lebanon

Residents of villages along Lebanon’s southern border have returned to find their homes destroyed and Israeli soldiers still present. Although Hezbollah fighters have been pushed north, support for the group appears strong among some residents, with others decrying the destruction caused by its war with Israel.

Cian Ward
Families Seek Closure at a Damascus Morgue

Families Seek Closure at a Damascus Morgue

Syrians with family members disappeared in regime prisons have gathered at the morgue in al-Mujtahid hospital in Damascus to search for their loved ones’ remains.

Aubin Eymard,
Cian Ward
Hope and Despair at Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’

Hope and Despair at Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’

New Lines reports from Sednaya Prison, where Syrians brave horrors in a desperate search for lost loved ones.

Aubin Eymard,
Cian Ward