Much like every morning, Hafis A. was making his way to the restaurant where he used to work. The young  Syrian  man had no idea his life as a refugee in Istanbul was about to change. When Turkish security authorities pulled him over and demanded his papers which had expired two...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he did not rule out a possible meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to help restore bilateral relations between the neighbours. Turkey severed ties with Syria after the 2011 Syrian civil war and supported rebels looking to oust Assad. It...

“I wish for death,” says Umm Khattab*, a Syrian  refugee  who has called a flimsy tent along the northeast border of  Lebanon  home for years. “We live in constant anxiety and terror. Death has become more merciful than living here.” Her words capture the stark...

On June 27, 1980, in under an hour, the Assad regime killed some 1,000 political prisoners at the infamous desert prison. We are still waiting for accountability. By Razan Saffour I met my maternal uncle, Burhan, for the first time in 2018. At the time, I was living in...