Amer Abdullah (a pseudonym) pursued a single goal: renewing his yearly residency permit in Erbil, the capital city of the ...

Two months after humanitarian organizations stopped providing sanitation and water services to the displacement camp where Taha al-Muhammad lives in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, two of his ...

Bozan Sheikho, 44, has been trying to sell his property in Kobani to fund migration to Europe. His asking price is low, but he has not found a buyer in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)-controlled ...

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In northern Syria’s Kobani, a border city facing Turkish shelling and continuous threats of a ground assault, many residents are trying to sell their property to pay for a way out. With the city’s ...

BEIRUT — For the seventh evening in a row, Abed and his brother George watched the sunset on Sunday from their small balcony in Burj Hammoud, a historically Armenian town just east of Beirut. The ...

CAIRO – After earning a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Business Administration from two top Egyptian universities, 32-years old Aref* thought he would easily find work as an accountant. While in ...

MARSEILLE — Syria has long been a key battleground in Iran and Israel’s shadow war. But since October 7—when Iran-backed Hamas launched its ground incursion into Israel from Gaza—attacks on and from ...

AL-HASAKAH — When Ivan Hesen received his visa to enter the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) on March 7, he was overjoyed. At last, the 31-year-old from Syria’s northeastern Qamishli city could “reunite ...

POURNARA/NICOSIA — As the small fishing boat carrying Rihab al-Ahmad, her husband and four children pushed off of the Syrian coast and sailed for Cyprus on February 20, a better future seemed almost ...