Inside Syria’s sprawling refugee camps that have become cities

EU’s Chance to Support a Better Future for Syrians

Closed shops, bread lines, neighborhoods reduced to rubble for over a decade, residents recovering from years of war and trauma — this is what Human Rights Watch researchers saw on recent visits to Damascus, our first in 15 years. While Syrians spoke of their hopes for a better future following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December, fear was also palpable, particularly among minorities and those vulnerable to retaliation, and

After 14 years of conflict, Syria's women stand ready to rebuild

GOAL humanitarian workers, Doaa Ghadab and Zeina Ali Bajo, outline the challenges women in Syria have faced in recent years and their determination to build a stable country after the conflict.

Inside Syria’s sprawling refugee camps that have become cities

When Syria's dictator Bashar al Assad was toppled from power - millions of people displaced by years of war dreamed of returning home. Hundreds of thousands have made it back to cities like Aleppo, Hama and Homs.

The number of Syrians returning home since the beginning of the year is a record that had never been reached since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011.

Destruction of homes and infrastructure keeps Syrians in displacement tents - Enab Baladi

Alongside the Turkish border, numerous informal camps are spread out, housing displaced individuals from villages and towns deep within Syria, who have been living there for years, fleeing military operations carried out by the ousted Assad regime in their homes. The presence of the regime itself in villages and towns in the rural areas of Idlib, Hama, and Aleppo has been a major reason preventing the displaced from returning to their areas, for…

The total number of migrants reaches more than 13.5 million people