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...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- In Syria's forgotten villages and cities of populations left to killing, displacement and destruction in silence. No reports to describe their plight and they do not pass in a breaking news piece on screens and websites.  They are forgetting in media, in relief,...