A new initiative is helping to support children’s development amid brutal civil war.

Farmers in the village of Al-Khareeta are set to profit from new project, while some see further benefits too.

Ahmad, a refugee from the Syrian city of Aleppo, plays the flute in the streets of the Turkish city in an effort to make ends meet.

The city’s cemeteries have become a meeting place to remember and talk about those who have died in the conflict.

Across the border in Turkey, increasing demand and local resentment are making accommodation hard to find.

Since the civil war started in 2011, thousands have tried to make the punishing journey but only a few succeed. By Manaf Hashash The village of Talmans lies in the southern countryside of Syria’s Idlib province and is currently under the control of the rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra. The area has been a target of air raids and shelling by the […]

Citizens in Syria’s northwest use radio communication to advise fighters and civilians of government offensives.

Opinion is split on whether those who remain loyal to the government in opposition-held town should be granted funeral rites.

  Last month the Syrian city of Aleppo hosted a race organised by the local branch of the General Authority for Youth and Sports and sponsored by Nasa’em Sooriya Radio. Forty competitors representing various organisations in Aleppo participated in the River Martyr’s Race on December 2, 2014. The race commemorates the Quweiq river massacre which claimed the lives of more […]

Piroz Perik (Qamishli-Syria) A number of Kurdish activists and journalists in the town of Qamishli in northeastern Syria have held a protest in support of a group of Kurdish prisoners who went on hunger strike over their mistreatment in an Iranian prison. According to the protestors, most of the 29 prisoners are members of banned Kurdish political parties. They have […]