By Louisa Loveluck and Ben Farmer (The Daily Telegraph)- Senior British politicians are leading calls for the RAF to drop aid to a besieged Syrian town where thousands of civilians are starving to death....
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aisha al-Hajiri, or Om Omar, a widow in her fifties from Arsal, has devoted her life after her husband’s death to help the disabled, although she is not that affluent, but she has turned her 2-room-house into a center to look after disabled and...
Syrian refugee Hussein Hammoud is banking on a broom handle to protect his 12 children from the winter cold. He is using one to prop up the flimsy shelter that has already collapsed once this year under the weight of snow in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. "The snow brought down the tent on our...
The European Union on Friday welcomed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's decision to allow humanitarian access to the town of Madaya, and called for a halt to all attacks on civilians in the conflict, ahead of peace talks later this month. The war in Syria has killed an estimated...
