By Moez Hamid (Zaman Al Wasl)- The US missile strikes on Shayrat airfield last Friday in retaliation to the 4th April Sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhdom town have caused changes in hopes, worries and opinions of Syrian people, depending on their attitude from the Syrian regime, some started...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Elderly and Hopeless Nursing Home in the town of Harem in northern Idlib province was founded to host the disabled and elderly who were displaced from the Nursing Home in Jisr al-Shoghour, in 2015 and found no place or support or protection. The judge Dr....

(Daily Mail)- For years, Abboud Jan's gun repair shop in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh catered exclusively to local hunters, but the country's devastating six-year war has changed all that. "We used to repair just hunting weapons, but things have changed with the crisis," says the...

When Jaafar's grandmother recognized him by his birthmark in a Turkish orphanage, months after his parents were killed fleeing Syria's civil war, she held him tight, screaming for joy. The story of how Hajar Saleh, a 47-year-old nurse, spent fraught weeks tracing her grandson in a foreign...

 When Syria's war came to 73-year-old Joseph Mghazi's street in the Abbasiyeen neighborhood of Damascus, he ignored his neighbor's entreaties to halt his habitual streetside backgammon games. "We would sit and play backgammon as the shells were falling around us," he told AFP in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Students in the ISIS-held neighborhoods of besieged Yarmouk camp south of Damascus can not escape the radical curriculum of the Islamic State that incites for bloodshed and brutality. ISIS has forced the teaching its curriculum in 2 schools, one on al-Oroba neighbourhood for...

The wail sliced through the stuffy underground medical centre in a besieged town near the Syrian capital. Dania, 14, was writhing in pain ahead of her first ever dialysis session. She was one of dozens of patients being treated for renal insufficiency inside a basement-turned-clinic in...

(New York Times)- Abu Mohammed is bored. He estimates that two years ago he earned more than $800,000 from smuggling thousands of migrants into Turkey from Greece. He rented an office in Aksaray, an area of Istanbul popular with Syrians, to serve as his headquarters. At one point, he had more...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- One of the Syrian revolution’s distinctive outcomes was the art of graffiti that first used by a school children in Daraa six years ago, such an inscription sparked the regime anger to start from that date a relentless war on the Syrian people. Graffiti has...

(Los Angeles Times)- As the war in Syria grinds into its seventh year this week, a vital building block of the country’s future has fallen victim to the carnage: the education of its children. About 1.75 million children and youth in Syria are out of school and most are up to six years...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Through her scientific career which has spanned half a century, Doctor Fatima al-Halmouschi managed to prove herself as an esteemed scientist in nuclear physics, a field that still has many red lines. Dr. al-Halmouschi was the first Syrian woman to...

(BBC)- The imagery is all too familiar. A family on the move, their meagre belongings carried on their heads; a cluster of frightened children gripping a mother figure; the body of a victim cradled on the ground by a woman. These are depictions of the war in Syria - but they have been...

(Washington Post)- For complicated reasons to do with war and politics, the only way in and out of the enclave controlled by Syria’s Kurds is on a rusty iron boat that ferries passengers across the Tigris River from Iraq. Late last year, photographer Alice Martins and I boarded one of those...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Higher education and post-graduation study have become a dream for students live the Southern of Damascus for the last 6 years, which forced the student to look for alternatives, as they have only two only, either to take a chance of the additional session of the University of...

(Middle East Eye)- Few inventors can call their brainchilds a "game changer". But that is exactly what the grand jury at the European Youth Awards called Abdul Rahman Alashraf's creation. The young Syrian inventor was presented with a European Youth Award in December 2016 for his winning...

More than a year ago, Mayar and Nawar Ballish escaped car bomb attacks in Damascus. Now the Syrian sisters, both students in their twenties, go to school by train past neat gardens and farms in the quiet hills of Bavaria, southern Germany. They have lived there since October 2015. Their...

(Eqtsad)- Om Mohamed, 50-year-old woman lives in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, did not realize that she will be forced one day to sell the gold which she saved during 25 years from the income of her martyred husband as he used to work in selling electric devices. Om...

(Eqtsad)- Saad Abu al-Izz, one of the rebel workers in monitoring the movements of regime and Russia warplanes in the northern province of Idlib, seemed absorbed in following up fighter jets minute by minute. In the humble room which Saad uses for observation, the devices were releasing...

By Naser Ali (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's ongoing war has left tragic side effects, most notably the foundlings and homeless children, according to activists who assure the absence of an accurate number of the Syrian orphans and displaced children. A baby child in good health was found last...

(New York Times)- Marhaf Homsi was not impressed with the baklava situation in New York. The pastries were too sweet for his taste, and there was often a filler like semolina mixed in with the nuts. The nuts themselves were pulverized and powdery, ruining the texture of the confection....