Amineh Abou Kerech’s poem “Lament for Syria” won the United Kingdom’s Betjeman Poetry Prize in 2017 and in February this year she read the poem at a UN event focusing on the trauma children face in times of conflict. She is now living in the UK with her family and spoke to UN...

Syrian women are struggling to provide for their families, a decade after crackdowns on mass protests devolved into a civil conflict that has devastated their country. Hiba Mawas has had to juggle being a nurse and a single parent while surviving a war. Mawas lost her husband to...

In a scrapyard that looks somewhat like an ammunition depot in north-western Syria, nine-year-old Malik is busy arranging blank mortar shells that his family dismantle for iron parts and sell to make a living. Hassan Junaid, 37, who runs a scrapyard in the town of Maarat Misrin along...

Karim Benzema saved Real Madrid for the second week running on Saturday, his two goals dragging his team to a 2-1 win over struggling Elche in La Liga. After Benzema's late equaliser salvaged a draw against Atletico Madrid last weekend, the Frenchman came up trumps again, a brilliant...