Watching a combine harvester grind through his golden wheat, farmer Yahya Mahmoud is relieved the yield looks good this year, even as a tanking economy leaves millions hungry across war-torn Syria.
Inside Mercy Corps’ work with Syrian refugees in Jordan (Photos)
Photographer Cathy Cheney went to the Middle East shortly before the pandemic broke out. Here’s her look at how a strong community has risen from a refugee camp in Jordan.
Video of three men sexually assaulting Syrian boy causes outrage in Lebanon
A video of three men sexually abusing a boy in Lebanon has gone viral on social media and caused outrage. Photo for illustrative purposes only. Image Credit: Agency Abu Dhabi: A video of three men …
Italy Seizes Drugs From Syria Worth One Billion Euros
The drug, in the form of around 84 million Captagon tablets hidden inside industrial goods within containers, was worth about one billion euros ($1.12 billion), and intended to be sold on the European …
The forgotten refugees of Palestine and Syria
In Lebanon, which hosts an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees and 175 000 Palestinian, refugees are far more afraid of hunger than Covid-19.
Naples police seize $1bn haul of amphetamines produced in Syria
Police in Italy have made what they claim is the world’s biggest seizure of amphetamines after finding 84 million pills worth €1 billion on a ship from Syria.Investigators in the port of Salerno …
The rise and fall of Syria’s first lady: Why the US is going after Asma Assad?
But for the first time ever, on June 17 his British wife Asma was targeted with economic restrictions of her own. “We anticipate many more sanctions, and we will not stop until Assad and his regime …
Italy confiscates $1B worth of amphetamines made by ISIS in Syria
Italian police seized 14 tons of amphetamines with a street value of approximately $1.15 billion, which they suspect was headed for the home base of a notorious European crime clan in Naples and …
Italian police seize £900m of ‘Isis drug’ fenethylline en route from Syria – video
Police in Italy have seized more than 84m fenethylline tablets, weighing 14 tonnes, at the port of Salerno, in what they say is the biggest seizure of amphetamines in the world …
People in northeast Syria are in desperate need of help. Aid groups can’t get to them.
This week, heads of 20 aid agencies published an open letter urging the UN Security Council to reopen the Al Yarubiyah crossing into Syria. The crossing was closed last January, with fatal …