HOMS, Syria (AP) — Two years after the last Syrian rebels left the besieged Old City of Homs, voices echo through the shells of bombed-out buildings, their upper floors tilted at odd angles as though frozen in time. "There is no danger here, because there isn't anybody," a soldier said as...

(The Telegraph)- Every year, a few hundred thousand hardy tourists make it to the snowy town of Akureyri in the far north of Iceland, braving 70mph winds and freezing temperatures in search of ski slopes, whale watching trips and the Northern Lights. Yet the town’s newest...

The civil war in Syria has seen scores of refugees crossing the sea to reach Europe- where they are not always welcome. One family fled the Syrian capital Damascus over a year ago and in search of a new home, they made the trek down south, to South Africa. Yaser and Safaa Jabri Al Rehawi have...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Recent Syrian regime’s military campaign and Russian airstrikes on the countryside of Hama have increase the burden on the civil defense forces, which already suffer of shortage of manpower and equipment. Zaman Al Wasl has observed the suffering of...

“We believe in our army, and in our state.” Amid sounds of artillery invading the atmosphere of the city of Kilis, just a few miles from the Syrian border, Halil Deli, 36, taxi driver for five years now, support the Turkish army’s shelling in Syria. But he quickly shows concern not only for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( Eqtsad - Zamana Al Wasl)- Sarah, the Syrian refugee woman in Egypt who was waiting to follow her a asylum-seeker husband to Sweden, has never expected to be dumped and divorced as the husband changed migration plans and decided to start a new life in Germany....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Maha Jasim Halawik, a-4-year-old girl from Zara town in countryside of Homs, suffers from a state of mute-deaf and dislocation in her left hip during rescuing her from under the rubbles of her house. Mohammed Kassab detailed that the girl was...

Twenty-seven-year-old Mamun Khalid Nasir is thankful to be alive, but he is now bedridden. It all happened almost a year ago, after he was injured by a barrel bomb dropped by Assad regime helicopters in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. The father of five has since lost his legs and the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- “The Mother of Martyrs”, Iranian opposition woman had died few days ago, and now she would meet her 6 sons and a daughter and son-in-law who were killed by the Iranian regime. She spent her life between graveyards and prisons as she spent years of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aisha al-Hajiri, or Om Omar, a widow in her fifties from Arsal, has devoted her life after her husband’s death to help the disabled, although she is not that affluent, but she has turned her 2-room-house into a center to look after disabled and those...

By Faris al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- “With all these crimes committed against Syrian people, I was not able to keep silent any longer and decided to face this a huge octopus (Hezbollah)," Dalal, the Lebanese Shiite woman said.   “ The Free Shiite Woman”, as...

 In a village in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Syrians from Raqqa have been coming to harvest cannabis for almost a decade. Now, Raqqa is under Islamic State control and the border crossing is more difficult than ever. One woman recently risked her life for work in Lebanon. Like the...

Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State group in Syria. The fierce-looking 36-year-old in fatigues from the Syriac Christian minority in the northeast...

Mohannad is a spy for Islamic State. He eavesdrops on chatter in the street markets of Mosul and reports back to his handlers when someone breaks the militant group's rules. One man he informed on this year – a street trader defying a ban on selling cigarettes – was fined and tortured...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wals- EQTSAD)- The Syrian families have divided and spread over the cities of the country, or in different countries, some parents have not seen their children for more than 5 years, and many children have not been able to see their families and parents...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zamanl Al Wasl- Eqtsad )- Many Syrian families have suffered after reaching to Europe from social and familial difficulties, especially when women got benefits of the European law which is more supportive to women and gives them priority in managing the family and...

Syrian refugees in Turkey have been joining the search for meteorite fragments in the eastern province of Bingol. In Saricicek, a village 5 km (3 miles) east of the provincial capital Bingol, showers of extra-terrestrial rocks have fallen on their land since early September. After hearing...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad )- Souq al Amara, a small and popular marketplace near the Old City of Damascus where almost everything needed for food can be found, but the only difference from the capital’s markets is the low prices where poor and middle class people can...

(The Guardian)- Who would want to be a woman in Aleppo? The female population of Syria’s second city find themselves threatened both by the murderous misogynists of Islamic State (Isis) and the Russian allies of the president, Bashar al-Assad, whose bombing raids mean that now even bad weather...

(Al Jazeera)-  In Syria, the besieged town of Douma, 10km northeast of Damascus, has been under intense regime and Russian shelling for the past few weeks. One resident, Osama Nasser, describes what it is like to live there: It usually begins in the morning, at around 8am, and lasts all...