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Berlin now 'home sweet home' for Syrian pastry chefs

A Syrian family of pastry chefs, the Sakkas, once delighted the people of Homs with their sugar-soaked Levantine delicacies, until a rain of bombs turned them into refugees. Now, after a four-year odyssey, they have reopened the family's sweet-tooth haven in Berlin, a baklava shop called the...

Syrian Refugees: Om Mahmoud can't escape her loss

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Om Mahmoud, 50, recounts the intimate details of her loss and forced migration from the al-Khaldiyeh neighborhood in the central city of Homs. Om Mahmoud was forced to leave in 2012 by the regime forces and auxiliary militias. She left behind three graves and a...

In midst of Aleppo wreckage, a Syrian family returns home

The street looks as if it was hit by an earthquake and the bombed-out building in a former rebel-held northeastern neighborhood of Aleppo is deserted — except for the second-floor apartment where Abdul-Hamid Khatib and his family are staying. There is no electricity or running water....

After 6 years of war, ‘twitching’ Assad is ‘exhausted’

(Al-Arabiya)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be suffering from an eyelid twitch in his left eye as a result of psychological pressures, according to sources in Moscow. In its Saturday edition, the London-based pan Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted these sources as saying that after...