Alone in her room at an overcrowded retirement home in Damascus, Naz Ashiti thumbs through photographs of her daughters overseas, her eyes lingering on features she has not seen in years. Sending ageing family members to a retirement home was once unthinkable for most Syrians, but...

(Eqtsad)- Syrian doctors have started a-6-week training course in Turkey, in health centres allocated to train Syrian doctors on the Turkish health system in southern Turkish provinces “Hatai, Mersin and Urfa” where high numbers of Syrians live there.  The training courses are...

(Al-Jazeera)- Ten-year-old Hala Shaheen is slowly going blind. Before the outbreak of Syria's war, she was receiving successful treatment for retinal detachment - a condition that causes the tissue sending visual messages to the brain to come loose. Regular check-ups and specialist care...

(Al-Monitor)- Many Syrians who have lived through the six years of the Syrian civil war have been forced to change their work, study or specialty fields as they have been displaced from their hometowns. Some young Syrians have been highly innovative and displayed excellence in their new...