There weren’t any bombs today, or the day before. That’s good, because it means you can leave your apartment, see your friends, try to pretend life is normal. Still, you don’t know when the attacks will resume or how much worse they’ll be when they do. The war here has been going on...

(BBC)- A Finnish-Syrian man feted by the global media for smuggling toys into Syria has rejected fraud allegations. On Friday, Finnish police said they had launched a preliminary investigation into his use of donated money. Finnish media have published claims he withheld money, had links...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New statistics by local relief organizations showed that almost 4000 people with disabilities,including 500 children and 700 amputation, are living in the besieged northern countryside of Homs city. Abo Mohsen, a father of a disabled young man, said that he had become...

Syrians in the opposition-held city of Douma are being forced to bury their dead in multi-layered graveyards as years of conflict make it impossible to plan new cemeteries. Douma, in southwestern Syria’s Rif Dimashq province, has run out of space for single graves. Now the local...