Among the olive trees in northwestern Syria, displaced teenager Wissam Diab plucks an oud outside his new home, a tent surrounded by luscious plants. Inside, there are more tumbling indoor plants and a collection of tiny cacti, as well as dozens of books lined up on a cloth-covered table...

An eight-year-old Syrian girl who lost her leg is hoping to get treatment in Turkey and be able to walk again. Fatma Nasuh lost her leg when she was only 3 years old and has been walking with crutches ever since. She walks three kilometers (1.8 miles) with crutches everyday to...

A Syrian family has set up home in an ancient Roman temple in northwest Syria to avoid the overcrowded refugee camps. Abdelaziz Al-Hassan, his wife and three children, fled Idlib after the regime and its allies intensified attacks in 2019. Between December 2019 and March 2020, one...

Abdelaziz al-Hassan did not want to live in an overcrowded camp after fleeing war in northwestern Syria, so instead his family pitched a tent in the ruins of a Roman temple. He, his wife and three children are among almost one million Syrians who fled their homes last winter during a...

For 9 years, Hammoud Al-Kroum has sat for hours every day to write down every detail, event, and suffering of the Syrian revolution, amassing more than 70 thousand pages filled with hundreds of facts and pivotal moments. Al-Kroum, originally from the southern countryside of Idlib, had...

On his motorbike, Mohammed Derbas speeds across a field in northeast Syria, slender Saluki dogs galloping behind. He hopes to export them for racing in the Gulf, despite war and coronavirus. Salukis, cousins of the greyhound, have been used for hunting for thousands of years in the...

Through the financial support it provides to talented students from all over the world, Qatar Foundation breaks down barriers that can stand in the way of learning – and the best testament to what it makes possible comes from the aspiring change-makers that it benefits. The belief that...

A 15-month-old Syrian baby born with congenital amputation returned his home in Idlib, Syria after receiving a prosthetic treatment in Turkey under instructions of the country’s interior minister. Muhammed and his parents were brought to Turkey on Sept. 1 and health professionals...

Asked about her dreams for the future, nine-year-old Salam al-Munir responds solemnly: "For the war to end and to go back to the innocence of my childhood, like the rest of the world's children". Salam returned to her village of al-Nayrab in the eastern Idlib province last week for the first...

(Eqtsad)- Southern Daraa province is witnessing daily departure of dozens of young people towards the rebel-held areas in northern Syria to escape arbitrary arrests, physical liquidations, and security prosecutions that have hit most of Southern towns, targeting their youth, regardless of...

Almost every day Wafa Ali Mustafa posts a number to Facebook. Today she has counted to 2663. Each number represents a day since her father went missing in Damascus more than seven years ago. It is a bitter truth that the disappearance of Wafa's father, Ali, is far from an isolated case....

“They sent us directly to the front lines. The situation is terrible. Terrible. There is fighting every day. We are charged with storming. There is no rest. There are many men missing and we can’t get to them,” explained Abdel Basit, a Syrian mercenary speaking from Azerbaijan (for their...

Suhail Deeb was eager to harvest his olives before sweeping forest fires that ravaged parts of Syria at the weekend left him with nothing but charred trunks and branches. "I used to have 100 trees, but now nothing is left," said the 61-year-old farmer at his blackened olive grove in the...

The five-month-old baby girl of Wadha Sharmoukh has only lived in a tent because Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies captured her family's hometown in northern Syria from Kurdish forces a year ago. She was a born in a dusty camp crowded with Kurdish civilians who fled their towns and...

“Many relatives of mine were living in camps near the border with Turkey,” says Huda Husein, a 25-year-old teacher living in the rebel-held enclave of Idlib in north west Syria, “but last month they returned home [to the cities and villages] because they prefer dying under an airstrike to dying...

Abdelmawla Ibrahim was only 16 when he felt his life was over. While driving through a checkpoint with his family in northern Syria, a stray bullet pierced his left leg, shattering his bones and forcing doctors to amputate it above the knee. “I hated myself, hated my life, I was very...

Professional football clubs in war-battered Syria are struggling to sign new players, who are demanding raises to counter the decline in the value of their pay packets. Nine years into a grinding civil war, Syria's economy is in tatters, life is increasingly expensive, and the national...

In Syria's capital, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into billowing red-hot glass, trying to keep his waning craft alive despite a war that keeps clients away. "We're the last family to be working in glass blowing in Damascus. I'm scared the profession will disappear," said...

  Anwar Almojarkesh, like many students around the world, found getting up in the morning difficult. However, instead of hitting the snooze button, Anwar began to develop a solution, one that has led to him to a remarkable career as an entrepreneur, helped along the way by Qatar’s...

They arrived in unprecedented numbers, pushing a strained Sweden to shut its borders as anti-immigration sentiment flared. Five years later, Syrians are still trying to integrate, some more successfully than others. Abdallah Saleh, a 24-year-old Palestinian who fled Damascus in 2014,...