(Dogan Agecny)- Syrian children in Turkey marked the 4th Istanbul Children and Youth Arts Biennial with their projects urging "right to education" and "secure living conditions", d during arts and music activities of Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (ASAM)....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( EQTSAD )- Number of enthusiastic youth in southern Jasim town founded a center to support children emotionally and psychologically after the trauma they have been living in for more than 5 years. Bilal Dnaifat, the director of Basmat Amal, or Smile of Hope, said...

Writing by Faris al-Refai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Salma al-Ghazali, was forced one day in 2013 to say good bye to her home town , Khirbet Ghazale, about 12 miles (17 km) northeast Daraa city, when she with her family found no option but to leave the town with hundreds of...

(Zaman Al Wasl- EQTSAD )- The humanitarian and innovative initiatives vary within the milieu of Syrians in Turkey with the variety of directions, orientations, and issues organizers want to address. We rarely find an initiative that achieves general aims and reaches a segment of society other...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- The UN-brokered ' cessation of hostilities' ceasefire deal has revived fishing in both lakes of Rastan and Harbanafsah and in water streams in Holeh, after 4 years of complete halt in the northern countryside of Homs. Zaman Al...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Eman Ahmed, a Syrian young lady from Kafranbel in Idlib, talented in drawing. Her parents discovered her talent when she was 6 years old from drawing of her friends. She applied in 2011 for admission exam in the College of...

Writing by Elaph Qaddah; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian people either in liberated of besieged areas face different kinds of problems and sufferings, they have exceeded the military aspects like shelling, bombing, destroying the infrastructure and houses, to reach to...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Derik camp near Mardin city at the Syrian-Turkish borders, witnessed several incidents of fire, which incited huge worried about the safety and neglect the Syrian refugees suffer compared to other camps in Turkey. the latest comic-tragic accident...

Iraqi Christians gathered in Baghdad this weekend to mark Easter but celebrations were tempered by fears Islamic State would eradicate their shrinking community, even as the army launched a U.S.-backed offensive to retake Mosul, their ancestral homeland. In mid-2014, Christians...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed CAIRO (Eqtsad)- In mid 2013, the Egyptian government has enforced an entry visa for Syrian people in order to be able to enter Egypt. Syrians subsequently, were forced to buy these kinds of visa at high costs because usually no more than 5% of visa application via...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Samira Abdul Karim Karzon, a Syrian woman refugee in Ersal from Qusayr in the countryside of Homs, suffers of renal failure and had had a kidney transplant few years ago in Syria. Samira suffers now in finding her medications especially those for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Civil defense in Daraa, the pioneer in liberated areas in Syria, has a satisfying and successful experience in helping and rescuing inured people besides sheltering the displaced, despite difficulties and the threatening and targeting the staff by the...

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Desperately seeking new lives, migrants traveling to Europe often hear lies and rumors such as promises of an escort across a forbidden border or offers of steady work that can steer them in the wrong direction and even endanger their lives. Quashing...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Houla region in the northwest countryside of Homs province was one of the first towns which came out in peaceful demonstration and they were the biggest gatherings. Zaman Al Wasl tried on the 5th anniversary of the Syrian revolution to examine...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bambino centre for emotionally rehabilitate children in Western Ghouta of Damascus, supports and works to bring happiness to children, despite lack of support and fund in addition to high cost of almost everything....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many families in Eastern countryside of Hasaka have started relying on the seasonal grasses and plants as an essential source of food as a result of the increase prices of the foods and other products which are not affordable for many of them. A...

Reporting by Fouad Abdulaziz; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad- Zaman Al Wasl)- “Arab Street” in the centre of Berlin, Germany, is situated in one of the poorest areas of the city called Sonnenallee. Once you enter the street, you feel like you have traveled tens of thousands of kilometre...

As peace talks are set to get under way in Geneva next week, residents in Syria from nurses to street vendors voice little optimism over the United Nations-backed negotiations’ chance of success. The Geneva talks will coincide with the fifth anniversary of a conflict that began...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- Many Syrian businessmen and factories' managers and owners have moved to Egypt, especially those who work kids clothing industry, which gained fame for their high quality. Manufacturers aim to reach to internationally recognized high...

In the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, children are outside playing and many people are going to the shops safely for the first time in months thanks to a partial halt to the war that is providing relief even if most doubt that peace will take hold. "Look at the markets. Where...