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Often ignored, we explore how Lebanese and Syrian communities began to settle in Jamaica, and how their footprint has now cemented their place within Jamaican history.
Jordan has moved Syrian activist Hasna al-Hariri to Azraq Camp for her unspecified "illegal activities”.
#VeganRamadan: Three easy, healthy and low-waste iftar ideas
Three easy and recipes to make for iftar that are fast, vegan and affordable and are also adaptable to what is already available to reduce food waste.
Ramadan in the shadow of Lebanon's food price crisis
In-depth: Ramadan tables in Lebanon are lighter this year, as inflation makes Iftar meals unaffordable for many families.
Syria Insight: Assad begins his re-election campaign
Syrians will go to the polls in presidential elections next month, although the process of choosing a leader has already been decided.
Ramadan Stories From The Kitchen: Mouth-watering lamb koftes
A hearty meal: In the second part of our Ramadan Stories From The Kitchen series, Ilhan Abdi shares her lush lamb kofte recipe, guaranteed to be a family Iftar favourite.
#VeganRamadan: Quick fruity recipes for a healthy post-iftar dessert
Here are three quick and easy ways to make fruity desserts when you're low on time and don't want to head for a chocolate bar...
Lebanon's supermarkets: On the frontline of an economic crisis
In-depth: The supermarket is where the average Lebanese citizen feels the economic crisis most, with staple goods vanishing and other essential ...
Ramadan Stories From The Kitchen: Shawarma braided pastry
Heritage with a twist: In the first of our Ramadan Stories From The Kitchen series, Sara Ezzeldin Saeed shares her unexpected cooking journey ...
Kurds impose 10-day curfew in NE Syria
As the number of cases across northeastern Syria rise, Kurdish authorities have imposed a curfew to stop the spread.
Rebuilding Raqqa: Hope amid the ruins of war
In-depth: Three years after being liberated from IS, Raqqa is still in ruins. But despite funding shortages and security challenges, residents ...
Emirati aid, Iranian oil arrive in crisis-hit Syria
A plane carrying UAE aid and an Iranian oil tanker have arrived in Syria after the US said that its Caesar Act sanctions on the regime excluded ...
Syria Insight: Fears grow for Syrian refugees in Denmark
The Danish government has revoked the residencies of dozens of Syrian refugees, the first European country to do so, as part of new ...
The world watches Lebanon on brink of collapse
Comment: Emile Nakhleh examines how corruption has brought Lebanese society to the brink, and why the international community and its ...
Lebanese trade union calls for boycott of supermarket ‘mafias’
Lebanon's economic crisis has caused extreme poverty across the country, prompting one trade union to take drastic action.
Traditional manousheh leaves tables in poverty-hit Lebanon
The economic crisis in Lebanon is now affecting the most basic items in the country, including the famed manousheh.
Expelled from US at night, migrant families in expectation
Migrants who were not expected in the United States find themselves having to make choices as they were sent back to small, dangerous Mexican ...
Syria 'rations' fuel as Suez Canal jam persists
Authorities in Damascus warned they were "rationing" fuel to avoid shortages.
War-torn Syria suffers effects of Suez Canal blockage
The Syrian regime’s oil ministry says it has begun organising distribution of fuel in response to the delays in shipments caused by the blocking ...
Slow recovery in Syria's Baghouz two years after IS
The embattled village of Baghouz was the last vestige of the cross-border proto-state IS declared in 2014 across large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
What's next for Syria under the Biden administration?
Analysis: Washington is still weighing up its approach to Syria, but the power balance that Russia, Turkey and Iran have built will not be easy ...
Syria Insight: Bread queues and hunger in Assad's Syria
After ten years of war, Syrians across the country are facing unprecedented hunger and poverty.
Lebanon joins UN list of 'catastrophic famine' risk countries
A report by FAO and WFP lumps Lebanon together with famine-stricken Yemen and war-torn Syria in a list of countries at risk of food insecurity ...
Syria sends oxygen aid to Lebanon to fight Covid
Syria has pledged to deliver 75 tonnes of oxygen to Lebanon "immediately" after Beirut's health ministry requested the aid to save hundreds of ...
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