Ibrahim Dereci emanates pride as he flickers on his prayer beads. Immaculately dressed in a suit and tie, he is a throwback to a different era.  The 62-year-old runs his patisserie in Istanbul’s Fatih district, while also keeping an eye on his neighbourhood from the well-located...

(New York Times)- In the makeshift tent settlements that dot fields and villages in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, Syrian refugees are digging in, pouring concrete floors, installing underground sewerage and electric wires, and starting businesses and families. What they are not doing is...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar Manaa, a 16-year-old boy from Idlib province have been suffering of almost complete paralysis due to an injury happened 3 months ago when he was removing a rubble of regime airstrikes. Bashar’s uncle said that he was injured when his family...

Almost six years into a war that has devastated their country, Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon say they expect nothing of peace talks this month but still dream of going home. "I don't think anything will come of the talks" this week in Kazakhstan and the next in Switzerland, says...