Witnesses to a boat capsize that left some 20 people dead, including children, say the victims were from the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority and blamed the tragedy on travel restrictions that forced them to journey by sea. At least 21 people, including nine children, died after a...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( EQTSAD )- Number of enthusiastic youth in southern Jasim town founded a center to support children emotionally and psychologically after the trauma they have been living in for more than 5 years. Bilal Dnaifat, the director of Basmat Amal, or Smile of Hope, said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took two villages from regime army on Monday in al-Ghap Plain in central Hama province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Free Syrian Army (FSA) backed by Jund al-Aqsa Brigade seized control of Kharbet al-Naqus and al-Hakura villages in surprise attack. Two...

( EQTSAD )- The Syrian labor milieu in Turkey is witnessing a rising debate and severe divisions about calls being made on social media websites for Syrian laborers in Turkey to strike for three days starting first of May. Muhammad al-Naemi, the head of the Syrian Association for Refugee...