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Raqqa homeowners fight against illegal confiscation of their properties

For Wael, a Syrian man from Raqqa, the situation in his hometown feels like deja vu. When he fled the city for Homs in 2014, it was to escape the Islamic State (IS) group, which had taken over Raqqa as its de facto Syrian capital and ruled it with an iron fist under a self-declared...

Syrians lose children, homes and jobs in Beirut blast

Ahmad had saved his family from Syria's brutal war by bringing them to Lebanon, but then Beirut's massive blast ripped his wife and two of their daughters away forever. Weeks later, looking at the rubble of his former home near the port, he recounted how the explosion in one horrific moment...

Through visual prosthesis, Abdulrahman Darwish brings happiness to war victims

(Eqtsad)- Abdulrahman Darwish, a Syrian displaced continues to work in his first profession as a "dental prosthetics technician" in which he worked in the harsh conditions of the siege on the region, in addition to working in the field of manufacturing and installing artificial "glass"...

Black waters: Oil spills pollute northeast Syria creeks

In his village near a northeast Syria oil facility, Abdulkarim Matar said he has watched his horses die because of oil spills that have polluted waterways in the resource-rich region. The landowner said winter floods caused oil waste from a nearby storage facility to spill over onto his...