(New York Times)- Abu Mohammed is bored. He estimates that two years ago he earned more than $800,000 from smuggling thousands of migrants into Turkey from Greece. He rented an office in Aksaray, an area of Istanbul popular with Syrians, to serve as his headquarters. At one point, he had more...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- One of the Syrian revolution’s distinctive outcomes was the art of graffiti that first used by a school children in Daraa six years ago, such an inscription sparked the regime anger to start from that date a relentless war on the Syrian people. Graffiti has...

(Los Angeles Times)- As the war in Syria grinds into its seventh year this week, a vital building block of the country’s future has fallen victim to the carnage: the education of its children. About 1.75 million children and youth in Syria are out of school and most are up to six...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Through her scientific career which has spanned half a century, Doctor Fatima al-Halmouschi managed to prove herself as an esteemed scientist in nuclear physics, a field that still has many red lines. Dr. al-Halmouschi was the first Syrian woman to...