I woke up a few days ago to Twitter selfies of Westerners posing in Syrian government-controlled areas. Being an exiled Syrian for five years now, I try to avoid pictures of my home country. The country that kicked me out when I was 18 for daring to question why our government was killing...

In August, some 3,000 Syrians returned to areas of their home country cleared of terrorist groups by cross-border Turkish military operations. Taking refuge in Turkey as civil war gripped Syria, they were able to return after applying to a voluntary return program. The Turkish migration...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The 10-year-old Shatha Sabra was able to master the Turkish language brilliantly, creating a YouTube channel to teach Syrian children in Turkey the language. Sabra fled Syria with her family to escape Assad's terror to Lebanon in 2014 and then to Turkey. After...

Seven years after fleeing the civil war in his homeland, Zahir Hamshari's life is filled with questions and doubts: How to pay the rent? How to cover the electricity bill? How to afford even basic staples like bread and bottled water? But one thing is crystal clear for him. Like many Syrian...