(Eqtsad) Abu Stayef, a taxi driver in Idlib, believes that the profits from his profession were much higher before the start of the war in Syria.  Abu Stayef has been a taxi driver for 40 years, working in Idlib and Hama passing through Homs and each reaching the capital...

(ُEqtsad)- Om Mahmood is proud of herself for being able to support her family from her work in sewing and hand-craft, after joining the Woman centre in the camp of Atme on the Turkish border. Om Mamood is now able to earn SYP.40,000 from her work, which can cover the majority of her...

Reporting by Fazris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- The brutality of war, scenes of bombing and destruction did not affect the psyche of the triplets Sedra, Salam, and Sara Amran born in Damascus in 2005 and their brother Omar born in 2007. They have all managed to move away from the difficult...

Like many women, Huda dreads her menstrual period every month. But it isn't simply inconvenient or painful: She lives under siege near Syria's Damascus, without sanitary pads or even clean water. "When feminine products started to become rare in 2012, I had a really hard time," says the...