Syria: Five years of humanitarian crisis

IRIN reporter Heba Aly recently travelled to the Syrian capital, Damascus, to report on the humanitarian impact of nearly two years of conflict in the country. She filed this personal account of her time there.

Syrian activists are putting their lives at risk to gather forensic evidence of potential war crimes for the first time in the midst of an ongoing conflict, laying the groundwork for accountability and transitional justice in Syria under extremely difficult circumstances.