“Many relatives of mine were living in camps near the border with Turkey,” says Huda Husein, a 25-year-old teacher living in the rebel-held enclave of Idlib in north west Syria, “but last month they returned home [to the cities and villages] because they prefer dying under an airstrike to...

Abdelmawla Ibrahim was only 16 when he felt his life was over. While driving through a checkpoint with his family in northern Syria, a stray bullet pierced his left leg, shattering his bones and forcing doctors to amputate it above the knee. “I hated myself, hated my life, I was very...

Professional football clubs in war-battered Syria are struggling to sign new players, who are demanding raises to counter the decline in the value of their pay packets. Nine years into a grinding civil war, Syria's economy is in tatters, life is increasingly expensive, and the national...

In Syria's capital, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into billowing red-hot glass, trying to keep his waning craft alive despite a war that keeps clients away. "We're the last family to be working in glass blowing in Damascus. I'm scared the profession will disappear," said...