(AFP)- Once-proud shop owners in Aleppo's picturesque old city market, the merchants of Syria's former economic capital now live on a pittance selling goods on pavements and stalls. After a major rebel offensive on Aleppo in July 2012, the city's historic souk fell prey to a war...

(AFP)- A nine-year-old girl has become the star of a YouTube comedy that depicts with bittersweet humour the harsh reality of everyday life in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo. Rasha plays the role of "Umm Abdo al-Halabiya", a housewife who must make do in a city devastated...

By Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yuisra Ahmed (Zaman AL Wasl)- Bambino band, a voluntary band tries to help children in Western Gouta in Damascus to forget their pain and hard circumstances they have faced during the war. The band...

By Abu Abdullah Al Hourani;   Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Period of electricity cut-off has increased in Damascus and countryside, because regime lost control on petrol fields and pipes, refineries and electricity generation...