(Independent)- The mood is damp and oh so ugly. It is difficult to believe that in two months’ time, the first black President of the United States will hand over the keys to the White House to a man who got there on an Islamaphobic, xenophobic ticket and ended up being congratulated by a...

In the sandy yard of a shelter near the Syrian capital Damascus, a three-legged dog bounds excitedly, her tongue swinging as she runs despite her amputated limb. Betty is one of 350 animals housed at a farm-turned-shelter run by the Syrian Team for Animal Rescue (STAR), whose volunteers...

(Eqtsad)- Ahmad, a pupil in the sixth grade, goes to his school every morning, but he returns home an hour later. When he is asked why he returned, he always says, “there are no teachers.” Ahmad’s was confirmed true by Ahed, pupil in the same grade but in a different school. Ahed and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An eye-witness described the last moment of Omar Bakour’s life, our late Zaman al-wasl correspondent in Idlib, who passed away in regime air strikes on the village of al-Dana in Idlib countryside last Sunday. Abo al-Ola Amin, rebel fighter, told Zaman al-Wasl that he had...