(AFP)- Desperately needed medicines and medical supplies have reached the besieged Syrian town of Douma for the first time in a year and a half, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The United Nations' health agency said two of its trucks loaded with medical supplies...

Even as the death toll from Syria’s three-year civil war continues to rise, the country’s human development has also suffered immense collateral damage – the economy has been gutted, the healthcare system is in ruins, and education facilities are “teetering” – according to a...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Social media activists have circulated distressing photos for an 8-year-old girl infected by Leishmaniasis, saying she was a victim of human traffickers before being dumped near Turkish hospital in border town with Syria.  ...

  (By The Nation -Lauren Wolfe)- The door kept opening. In would come young men, sometimes hobbling a bit. They’d speak to the man behind the desk in Arabic and step back out. I was sitting in a sweaty, brightly painted room in southern Turkey. The man behind the desk was a...