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Displaced in Damascus suffe rocket rental prices

(Eqtsad)- Najwa recounts her story with displacement which led her to reside in Jadideh town in the outskirts of Damascus, “I fled my original town three years ago. My husband was detained two months after we migrated and I stayed with my three daughters opening our mouths to air.”...

Photos: Syrian newborn with Mermaid syndrome

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian baby was born this week in a rare condition known as Mermaid syndrome in al-Zafaraneh village in central Homs province . The doctors at first could not identify the sex of the baby, who passed away 10 hours later, a male, due to tragic fuse of the legs. A medical...

Ahmed: success refugee story in Egypt

By Iyad al-Jafaari (Eqtsad)- Syrians keep proving their talents in refuge countries all around the world, Ahmed jerkin is one of them. Ahmed arrived to Alexandria in 2013, after getting his basic learning certificate as he only lost 3 marks of the full mark of 310. In Egypt, Ahmed found no...

Syrian Refugees: Shufan enjoys own planting ways

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...

Sukhnah, a war-torn town with no media coverage

(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,...

Turkey: Syrian who fled war shot by coup plotters

Omar Khalid Derwish, a 21-year-old Syrian youth, is just one of the casualties of the July 15 putsch; having fled civil war in his own country, he was shot by coup plotters in Turkey. “My brother has been heavily wounded after he was shot by the coup plotters on the night of July 15. He is...

Homs: people recycle 'destroyed houses'

Reporting by Abdulkarim Ayoub; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The siege imposed over the northern countryside of Homs province for 4 years has affected delivering building materials making the operation almost impossible resulted from the detailed and hard inspection at regime’s...