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PYD to close Yakiti party's offices, radio station

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militants of the Kudish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have launched an arrest campaign against Kurdish politicians in Amoda area in the Northern countryside of Hasaka after their attempts to break in Yakiti Party’s offices.  The central committee of Yakiti party said...

Syria rebels say 25 dead in car bombing

Twenty-five fighters and civilians were killed in a car-bomb attack targeting Syrian rebels in the northern province of Aleppo on Thursday, the rebel group said. Yasser Yusef, a senior official of the Nureddine al-Zinki group, told AFP that the attack in the town of Azaz "bore the hallmarks"...

Children's hospital in Aleppo hit in airstrikes

(The Guardian)- Jet fighters and helicopters bombing east Aleppo hit a children’s hospital and a blood bank on Wednesday, as medics and patients sheltered in the basement waiting for the hours-long assault to end. An ambulance driver and at least two children were among at least 20 civilians...

Syria regime bombs rebels as Aleppo food aid runs out

Syrian government and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held parts of northern Syria Wednesday, including battered second city Aleppo, where food aid rations were all-but-exhausted after months of regime siege. The renewed bombardment has killed at least 20 people, including nine children, in...

Syrian refugees get vision care in Canada

(Middle East Eye)- As a child, the 26-year-old lived in a camp for internally-displaced persons in Yemen, after a civil war broke out in the country in the mid-1990s. There, he saw first-hand how poor living conditions and diseases impacted families and children in particular. “There was a...

Palestinian engineer wins innovation prize in Sweden

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmed Hamzat, young man from Yarmouk Camp of Palestinian refugee in Damascus, had been living in Sweden for two years, however, he managed to learn the Sweden language within 6 months and initiate a project about “the Language’s friend”, aims to bridge the gap...

Syria Regime and Aleppo Rebels Gird for Battle

(THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)- The front line that divides Aleppo is marked by sandbags and overturned vehicles and zigzags through the cobblestone streets of the Old City’s historic souk. Despite years of bombardment by the Syrian regime and rebel counterattacks, the line has barely moved. The...