(Zaman Al Wasl)- When Syria's uprising erupted 5 years ago with a peaceful demonstrations to topple Bashar Assad, Syrians- suddenly- found themselves trapped as crackdown was surrounding them everywhere. Death toll was rising and no concrete efforts made by the International community to stop...

A century after her forebears fled massacres in Turkey for Armenia, Alla has gone the other way, hoping to win Turkish citizenship after leaving her impoverished homeland. She works as a nanny in Turkey but fears deportation, one of thousands of undocumented workers from the former Soviet...

(EQTSAD)- Sociologist Abdul Hafiz al-Hulani founded the social support clinic for handicapped to be a social center for the marginalized population in Arsal, Lebanon. The clinic established in a house in Arsal, a town north-east of Beirut, receives 355 cases of disabilities and does not...

After a brief respite, bombs are falling heavily on Aleppo, forcing people there to think again about whether it is time to get out of a city at the epicenter of the Syrian war. The momentary normalcy brought by a truce is gone. The parks are empty again, the streets deserted...