Cyprus suspends asylum applications for Syrians as arrivals rise | Migration News
More than 1,000 people have arrived in Cyprus on boats from Lebanon this month amid deepening tensions in the Middle East. Cyprus has suspended the…
Anti-Assad Syrians lead protests against prison torture by rebel group | Syria’s War News
Binnish, Syria – Despite the dangers of dissent, people in northwestern Syria have been taking to the streets in recent weeks to protest an armed…
Displaced Syrians keep keys to their homes, like Palestinian refugees | Syria’s War
NewsFeed13 years after the start of the Syrian war, many of the thousands who were displaced still keep the keys to the homes they were…
Burning trash to stay warm, displaced Syrians struggle to survive winter | Syria’s War News
Kafr Yahmul, Syria – As winter sets in, the inhabitants of an informal camp just north of the city of Idlib are bracing themselves for…
Syrians long for justice 10 years after shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa | Migration News
Lampedusa, Italy – Every year, Refaat Hazima visits the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, where tragedy struck his family 10 years ago. On October 10,…
Syrians feel growing pressure from Turkey’s anti-migrant political wave
Anti-migrant sentiment, economic woes and political pressures are leading some of the 3.3 millions Syrians living in Turkey to plan a return to Syria or…
Syrians are rising up against Assad, and this time things could be different
In the Middle East area, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which China first put forth in 2013, has seen substantial growth. Through this large-scale…
Cyprus detains five Syrians suspected of human trafficking
August 24, 2023August 26, 2023 People protest against the latest decisions by Syrian government on increasing the prices of fuels in Sweida, Syria August 24,…
Syrians lose hope for loved ones who boarded doomed boat | Refugees News
A week after an overloaded boat carrying hundreds of refugees and migrants sank off the western coast of Greece, details of those feared dead are…
Future unknown but Syrians in Turkey ‘relieved’ after Erdogan win | Refugees News
Gaziantep, Turkey — Hatim al-Abdullah, a dual Syrian-Turkish citizen, voted for the first time in Turkey’s elections in May, which returned longtime leader Recep Tayyip…
Assad normalisation leaves Syrians in Rukban camp fearing future | Syria’s War News
In a makeshift settlement in the arid “no man’s land” between the Jordanian, Iraqi and Syrian borders, thousands of Syrians continue to live under siege.…
Turkish presidential run-off leaves Syrians with uncertain future | Refugees News
Istanbul, Turkey – As Turks prepare to head to the polls for a presidential run-off, millions of Syrian refugees in the country are watching anxiously,…
Syrians protest al-Assad’s participation in Arab League summit | Bashar al-Assad News
Idlib, Syria – Thousands of Syrians have protested across the country against some Arab countries’ normalisation of relations with President Bashar al-Assad’s government and the…
A US civil case gives us, Syrians, a glimmer of hope | Opinions
On April 12, the US-based Centre for Justice and Accountability revealed that it has filed a civil case against the Syrian regime for the widespread…
Syrians still fear building collapses three months on from quakes | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
Idlib, Syria – “Since the earthquake, the spectre of death under the rubble still haunts us,” said Ahmed Mazloum, a 43-year-old father of five, who…
For Syrians in Sudan, returning home is not an option | Conflict News
Syrians living in Sudan had thought the sound of air strikes, missiles and gunfire was behind them. They escaped the war in their country to…
Ukrainians and Syrians must stand united against Putin’s Russia | Human Rights
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is hauntingly reminiscent of the conflict in Syria. As Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy remarked in a recent address, the lack…
After earthquakes, Syrians utilise new rules to cross from Turkey | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
Bab al-Hawa, Syria – After seven years apart, Hussein al-Ahmed made the journey from Turkey, and finally reunited with his family in northern Syria. But…
Syrians displaced by quakes fear cholera outbreak as cases surge | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
Idlib, Syria – Abdel Moneim Hamdo rushed his two children, one a toddler, to a hospital in the northwest Syrian city of Idlib after they complained…
‘Buried alive’: Syrians recount losing family in the earthquakes | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
Atarib, Syria – When the first earthquake struck on February 6, heavily pregnant Sakhaa al-Mousa was jolted awake in her apartment. Before the 24-year-old had…