(Eqtsad)- Local Council in the rebel-held Aleppo city has planted some open areas in the war-torn neighborhoods with vegetables and legumes in a proactive measure for upcoming blockade due to battles on many fronts in the city as well as the Kurdish fighters observance of Castillou road, the...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The education directorate in rebel-held Idlib province has received fund from Chemonics organization to cover some expenses in educational sector in the province, head of the directorate tolld Zaman al-Wasl. Jamal Shahoud said the $600,000 that...

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Bread is no longer the untouchable red line, as the Syrian regime has broken its promises to keep the price of bread affordable for all people, but now bread price has almost doubled accompanied with reducing production. The price of a bag of bread...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- A group of enthusiastic youth from Maraba town in the Eastern countryside of Daraa have established a centre for children with special needs supported by the town's local council. The centre is intended to admit children with speech, hearing and mental...

Reporting by Mohamed al-Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Prices are soaring in Hasaka province as a result of the raise in the exchange price of US Dollar, closing crossing points to the province which led to limiting the amount of essential goods like vegetable, sugar and tea. A...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Over 50,000 rescue missions have been carried out by the Civil Defense volunteer group, also known as the White Helmets, since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, senior official told Zaman al-Wasl.. About 150 thousand people from Idlib province were rescued...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Photo)- Ali Aqil Suleiman sits on a bench in one of the parks in Tartous city carrying a paper headed by photos of Bashar and Hafez al-Assad honoring him. The regime did not think twice about its responsibility in Ali’s two amputated legs while honoring him with a paper that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Major General Jayez Rayan al-Musa, the military commander of the brutal aerial campaign on northern province of Aleppo and regime’s Air Force Chief of Staff, can be ranked as one of the regime's savage officers. The Sunni General who could only assume this post after he...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Finding a house to rent has become a difficult job to achieve in the Turkish city of Gaziantep lately, and if found, the cost is too high compared to before, that coincided with troubles on the Syrian-Turkish boarders and heavy displacement movement toward...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Painting telling a story of a woman emerging from under the rubble and her face covered in blood and dust by the mixed media artist Syrian Husam Aloum went viral on social media. Human rights advocate Anwar Malik called the painting “Syria Lisa” (merging Syria and Mona Lisa)...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Abo Khalid have lost his brother-in-law and all his children, he will never hear the word “uncle” after that, but the tragedy is that he does not know where they graves are, to at least visit them and pray for them, this is one of the uncountable...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The mobile clinics campaign started two weeks ago on the Turkish Syrian border as part of an initiative of the organization Tulip for Syria Relief in the city of Reyhanli. The campaign targets Syrian refugees living in villages far from areas with health clinics and it offers...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- From their humble schools in the Kurds’ and Turkmen’s mountains, from their poor villages, the children of Latakia’s countryside moved with their parents to tents set up for them far away from the axis of conflict and regime bombing, hoping for safe residence. The honorable...

Writing by Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Following the eruption of the Syrian revolution and the violent reaction and unprecedented suppression by the Syrian regime, people in Syria have become worried about their lives from saying even a word, as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran's state TV aired this week a clip urging young boys to join “liberation of Syria and Iraq” and to defend the sacred shrine by order of Iran Superem Leader Ali Khamenei. The clip called “martyrs who defend the sacred shrine” shows a group of youngsters wearing military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “The good humble man was martyred in our neighborhood. He took his children with him to play in heaven instead of playing here, in this dirty world,” said neighbor of martyr Ahmad Malas al-Ma’rawi who was killed in Russian air strike on al-Kallaseh neighborhood of Aleppo on...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- In a place lacks to minimum living conditions, Mohamed Masri, a young man from Idlib lives, recalling painful memories about the frightening experience he had in his home city, which resulted in amputating his right hand,...

Reporting by Ahmed al-Khalil: Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( Eqtsad )- “Passport” has become a need and a must for Syrians as it is their hope to be able to leave the country to find safer place. Passport application for adults over 18 requires attending in person to the Immigration and...

(EQTSAD)- Sociologist Abdul Hafiz al-Hulani founded the social support clinic for handicapped to be a social center for the marginalized population in Arsal, Lebanon. The clinic established in a house in Arsal, a town north-east of Beirut, receives 355 cases of disabilities and does not...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (EQTSAD)- Baroha, a small village in the western countryside of central Homs province, with a population counted 2300 people before the Syrian revolution, the majority of them (85%) were Sunni, and the rest were from the Alawite minority. It is adjacent the village...