"First I lost my home in Aleppo, and then I lost my home in Beirut." As Lebanon grapples with a worsening economic crisis, COVID-19 and the aftermath of August's catastrophic explosion in the port of Beirut, Yasmin Kayali believes that the status of refugees in the country has never been so...

Mohammed Mostafa al-Mohammed started studying medicine in rebel-held northern Syria to help the victims of war, but instead he has graduated into a world battling the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 29-year-old graduate from an opposition-backed university had expected to be tending to the...

Four Syrian media groups have merged in a new opposition media body, said in statement on Saturday. The Syrian Media Council includes the "Media Union of Aleppo and its countryside, the Media Association of Eastern Ghouta, the Syrian Journalists Association (SJA),...

A press freedom group has denounced the "unacceptable" injury of an award-winning Syrian photojournalist during a Paris protest against police brutality. Ameer Alhalbi, a freelance photographer who worked for Polka Magazine and AFP, was covering the demonstrations over the weekend opposing...