Professional football clubs in war-battered Syria are struggling to sign new players, who are demanding raises to counter the decline in the value of their pay packets. Nine years into a grinding civil war, Syria's economy is in tatters, life is increasingly expensive, and the national...

Aleppo (AsiaNews) – The novel coronavirus has hit Aleppo, Bishop Georges Abou Khazen, apostolic vicar of the Latins, told AsiaNews. At the height of the pandemic, “We have buried 10 victims a day in the Christian community alone,” the prelate he said. Since then, “the...

When Abed Alkhalaf fled the Syrian war for Belfast five years ago, he was forced to leave his wife and seven children behind. That is the harsh reality for many refugees who settle in Northern Ireland, which has proportionately more Syrian refugees than any other part of the UK....

Zaman al-Wasl obtained a new testimony on the horrors of the Syrian Holocaust in Assad’s detention centers and hospitals. Our witness, A.H., worked at Martyr Yusuf Al-Azma Hospital, also known as al-Mezzeh 601 Military Hospital, when Brigadier General Ghassan Haddad was the director,...