(Eqtsad)- The Syrian regime is pressurising employees using their need for work and source of income to force them to join courses of self defense, in order to participate in it war against Syrian people. Abo Aziz, in his fifties, told Eqtsad that he only had two years left to be entitled for...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai (Eqtsad)- In the balcony of his simple countryside home in Amasya north of Turkey, Syrian refugee Mohamed Hadid Shufan sits contemplating his plantings which he spent months nurturing in creative ways that it may make him forget the bitter months of siege where he...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-Naser, a young man from the Damascus’s Eastern Ghouta had two amputated legs due to mortar shelling that killed his 4 friends and left him with severe injuries forced doctors to amputate his two legs. Naser revealed...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Security and military cards are no longer monopolized by the security forces and thugs in Syria, but are now a product sold and bought between high ranking security officers, the National Defense, and Popular Committees militias, between Syria’s wealthy and even between some...