Eric Meyer
“We were at the basement and we heard people shouting that we needed to go to a hospital. We went through a tunnel. At the hospital they started pouring cold water on me,” the boy told the press conference, gathered by Russia’s mission at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemi...
When the earthquake hit the Afrin district, Bahar was already there and already engaged with people affected by the Syrian civil war. Many Bahar staff members lost their homes, family members died, and one staff member was killed, but they mobilized immediately. Thanks to its direct relationship...
Last November, as the Syrian civil war intensified, we were approached by a young writer who lives in Syria. We're often approached by writers from all over the world, but there was something different about this aspiring writer: his message. Nabeel Kallasis a medical doctor who writes nove...
We are used to the smell of death – yes, death does have a smell and it lingers. Fleeing war I was 18 years old when the war started and first experienced survival guilt. I still remember the day I woke up to the sounds of an explosion near my home. Living in a military neighbour...
Asked why he continues this volunteer work, one member of the real Syria Civil Defense replied: “It is humanitarian work for our country. We were there in the good times, and we are here when the times are bad and we are needed most. It’s our duty.” ...
In the Kurdish region of Iraq I met another who had started a campaign with friends to clean their camp of garbage. When I asked why, he replied: ‘If we do nothing then who’s going to help our community? Are we going to rely on foreigners and NGOs?’ People I spoke to wanted ...
why they were fighting; it was merely in solidarity with their compatriots and the Sudanese likewise. It turned out that it was a dispute over a bicycle: an Afghan had not paid the ten euros owed. And so the Sudanese came to collect and a medieval battle started. The Afghans went to...
The group is just getting started. They’ve been approached to cater events, and have a small retail division starting up — just cookies so far but they’re working on jams. They’ll be ramping up the retail arm soon for sales in stores. And then, in the future, a Syrian restaurant...
Since then, the area has exchanged quite a few hands between the different forces and organizations fighting each other as part of the Syrian civil war. Three of these forces have been involved in battles around the site in recent months: The Assad regime’s army, the Islamic State ...