Opposition leader’s response seen as a first step to strengthen the Assyrian role in the Syrian opposition.

Educational courses and cultural events are a valuable addition to people’s lives.

Local council faces challenge to provide prosthetic limbs and much-needed support to those injured in conflict.

Local health centre reports 50 cases of bacteremia in just one month.

As families struggle to survive the ongoing civil war, women’s chances of inheriting from their parents are reduced.

With their husband’s detained, some have remarried, while others have raised children on their own

Daily pressures, exacerbated by the civil war, put women and children at risk.

Continuing civil war has ruined the plans of many who aspired to complete higher education.

A year on, no information on Douma Four

  Since people lost their jobs in areas under opposition control many have sought to forge a living and end the town’s dependence on government services.