Reporting by Abdul Hafiz al-Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rahaf Ahmad Bakar is not the only for her mother anymore, she got married with the man of her dreams Samer 3 months ago. Rahaf (22) took refuge in Tripoli in Lebanon from Homs western countryside. When she is supposed to receive...

Yusra Mardini, the teenager who braved a Mediterranean crossing in a leaky dinghy fleeing war-torn Syria, won her 100m butterfly heat in Rio Saturday to launch an "amazing" Olympic experience. "Everything was amazing. It was the only thing I ever wanted was to compete in the Olympics," said...

A Syrian refugee was crowned "wine queen" in Germany, snatching the traditional annual honour title from local young women of wine-growing families. Twenty-six-year-old Ninorta Bahno was chosen by locals in the Mosel region to counter growing resentment against refugees in the country, which...

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Eqtsad)- Hatay Province south of Turkey announced last Tuesday opening the center of Turkish teacher residence in Jumhuriyat street in Hatay for university degree-holding Syrians and resident in Hatay province. Taher Riju, manager of Syrian Association for Refugee...

 The United States has resettled 8,000 Syrian refugees inside U.S. borders since October, Anne Richard, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, told reporters on Friday. The United States is on track to meet President Barack Obama's goal to...

A mutilated and headless body found in central Istanbul was identified as a gay Syrian refugee, a local rights group confirmed. Muhammed Wisam Sankari went missing on July 23 after leaving his home in the conservative Fatih district, Turkish gay rights group Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural...

(The Independent)- Almost every athlete at the 2016 Olympic Games will have an interesting backstory, but Yusra Mardini's is more extraordinary than most.  Mardini is in Rio to represent a team of 10 refugee Olympic athletes. While any other 18-year-old’s biggest achievements may be...

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Eqtsad)- The unity between the Syrian and Turkish people in their stand against the failed coup in Turkey July 15, has had positive effects on Syrian investors in Turkey. The Head of the Syrian Economic Forum Tamam al-Baroudi welcomed the Turkish-Syrian unity...

If Mustafa had known what it would be like living in a refugee camp in the Greek capital, he would never have left Syria. Four months of living in a broken tent by Athens' Pireaus harbor, waiting for his asylum claim to be processed has caused Mustafa to bitterly regret his decision to leave...

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Eqtsad)- trusted information revealed that the Turkish government has put new conditions in regard to Syrians with higher education who have been accepted for the resettlement programme announced by many countries like England and Canada. According to the...

(The Daily Star)- A Syrian refugee burned to death Monday after her tent caught fire in northeast Lebanon, state media reported. The National News Agency said Zahra Abdelsaleh suffered severe burns after her tent caught fire at a refugee camp in Masharih al-Qaa. She later succumbed to her...

Greece will hire hundreds of extra teachers to help thousands of migrant children join its public schools in the autumn, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Wednesday. "The inclusion of all refugee children in the public school system will begin in September," Tsipras said in a televised...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-Two Syrian children refugees in Lebanon were refused admission in a hospital to treat their third degree burns because their family was not able to afford money. Bashir Wazir, 18 months old, and his brother Yusuf 4 years old, were burned by a boiling...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- There has been a recession in learning Turkish Language among Syrians after the failed coup as it worked on increase their feel of insecurity about their future in the country. In its tour around institution for teaching Turkish language for Syrians,...

A failed Syrian asylum seeker who blew himself up outside a German music festival had made a video pledging allegiance to ISIS, in the second attack claimed by the extremists in Germany in a week. The 27-year-old assailant wounded 15 people, four of them seriously, near a cafe in the southern...

(Eqtsad)- A Turkish factory in the border city of Gaziantep dismissed 40 Syrian workers without giving any reasons, activists said, hinting that the factory owner belongs to the parallel entity and one of the supporters of the coup. One of the workers, who spoke to Zaman al-Wasl on condition...

A 27-year-old Syrian man denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when he set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Bavaria, an official said, in the fourth violent attack in the country in less than a week. Police said a dozen people were wounded, including three seriously,...

A 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested after killing a woman with a machete and injuring two other people in the southern German city of Reutlingen on Sunday, but the attack had no apparent connection to terrorism, police said. The asylum-seeking Syrian man had been involved in previous...

The German military is training more than 100 Syrian migrants for civilian roles suited to helping the eventual reconstruction of their country, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said in remarks released ahead of publication on Sunday. Von der Leyen told the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily...

(The Daily Star)- A blaze Saturday destroyed large parts of a makeshift Syrian camp in east Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported. Three people suffered shortness of breath in the fire, which erupted at an encampment in Taanayel in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They were treated in a...