Qatar Charity (QC) has started implementing qualitative water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects to benefit 500,000 people in northwestern Syria, as part of its efforts to alleviate their daily suffering. These projects include maintaining 8 non-functional water plants, in...

Recent weeks have seen a crescendo of rumors claiming that local, regional, and international support is growing to establish a Syrian Transitional Military Council (TMC). It would allegedly be led by defected Brigadier General Manaf Tlass, whose mandate would be to midwife the war-ravaged...

The low water level of the Euphrates River has triggered the farmers' concerns in northeastern Raqqa and Deir Ezzor provinces over the fate of summer crops and the water crisis in all.   Abdul Hadi al-Jaziri, a 45-year-old farmer, told Zaman al-Wasl that farmers' main trouble is...

(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has issued its annual report the most notable violations against media workers in Syria for World Press Freedom Day, noting that 709 journalists and media workers have been killed since March 2011, including 52 due to torture.   The...