Syrians in the opposition-held city of Douma are being forced to bury their dead in multi-layered graveyards as years of conflict make it impossible to plan new cemeteries. Douma, in southwestern Syria’s Rif Dimashq province, has run out of space for single graves. Now the local...

(The Daily Star)- “When I got married I was still a kid, I used to ask my husband to bring me sweets,” 20-year-old Rima explained to the group of Syrian women sitting together in her neighbor’s home in north Lebanon. One of the other young women in the group gets up to close the heavy metal...

(Eqtsad)- One of the most tragic outcomes of Syria's war is the rising number of widows who lost their husbands  on the battlefields. Ahmed al-Ali, social expert explained: “there are many social and economical obstacles facing widows these days, one of them and the most important is...

(Tablet)- When her 27-year-old son died in Syria, Rima felt more furious than sad. Unfortunately, she could not say out loud what she wanted to say. He was sent to fight in Syria, without her approval, and without receiving proper training. She wanted to blame someone—mainly those who had...

(Eqtsad)- Vine agriculture in southern Daraa province in the last 5 years has witnessed significant drop down, due to military actions in the region, especially in the countryside, which led to huge displacement toward safer areas. The raise in the price of primary materials and lack of...

(Zaman al-Wasl) “My prize got to me complete,” so posted Sara al-Houraniyeh, one of the volunteers with the civil defense in Deraa, on her Facebook page in response to the news that the White Helmets of Syria did not win the Nobel Peace prize as expected.  Sara, the daughter of Deraa...

(Zaman al-Wasl) The Danish parliamentarian Naser Khader said in a special conversation with Zaman al-Wasl that the tragic humanitarian situation which Syria, and Aleppo in particular, are living is something that cannot be ignored. The situation is the main motive for his continuous solidarity...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Adbul -Rahim al- Fara, a child suffers of Acute Leukemia since he was 5 years old. His family was devastated from when they knew his disease, they found no support to treat him. They then treated him in the American hospital in Beirut before the war where he...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Cotton production has dramatically fell in the northeastern Hasaka province, while production almost disappeared in Eastern and Southern of Hasaka, due to high cost of culturing it and securing needed requirements, besides difficulties in selling it at acceptable prices to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In one of Homs’s “secure” neighborhoods where there are no “armed men” nor “terrorists and extremists” according to regime; where there is only the authority of the regime and its institutions, tens of students are jammed in classrooms that some of them take seats on the floor....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Liberated Police Forces in Aleppo have been formed since 2012, that worked on keeping security and safty in liberated areas. In this occasion, the media centre of Liberated police forces of Aleppo has published a filmed report presenting the main steps of the first...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The opposition member and former businessman Maamoun al-Homsi revealed the story behind the pictures circulated by the pro-regime websites and pages on Tuesday evening. In the pictures, al-Homsi appears before a stand selling Arabic coffee and Sahleb (a warm drink). In the...

(Eqtsad)- The academic year has started in liberated areas of Syria for the sixth time under progressively difficult economic, humanitarian and living conditions. Jamal al-Saleh, Head of Education office in Daraa council commented on the matter saying: “this academic year has started with huge...

The family of a Syrian refugee tripped by a TV camerawoman as he carried his young son across the Hungarian border last September is looking forward to be reunited soon after finally getting visa clearance. Osama Abdul Mohsen had dominated headlines when Hungarian camerawoman Petra...

Reporting by Naser Ali (Eqtsad)- During the last 5 years of war, with the soaring prices and lack of job opportunities, most Syrians started to rely on moneys sent from their relatives abroad, to help them in managing the living cost. However, the exchange offices in Syria are connected to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian student Abdullah al-Khatib achieved first place among the students of the media faculty in the department of radio and television in Jordanian Yarmouk University in the city of Irbid with an average of 91.4%, higher than all of his peers, in a celebration held...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Samira Abdel Karim Karzon a Syrian refugee from the countryside of al-Qasir living in Lebanon’s camps dreamed of planting a tree or making a friend or sister in every country she visits. Samira who suffers from severe kidney dysfunction started her youth with an artificial kidney...

(Eqtsad)- Ratiba Ahel, a Palestinian woman lived in Syria, was forced to leave the country to live in Gaza after the war in Syria. She found no source of financial support, which forced her to work in preparing Syrian food and sell it to people. Ratiba makes food and sweets of Damascus for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A wave of anger prevailed among regime loyalist after Zaman al-Wasl report published yesterday that condemned way of breaching people’s dignity by regime when its intelligence published details of underwear of the two explosions’ victims in order to...

(Zaman al-Wasl) In a dark cell in the military security branch in Aleppo the detainee Mohammad Amin Mirat could hear the screams of detained women in the close by cells as they were tortured at the hands of an assistant officer who changed his name as a snake changes its skin, and he remained...