Moscow concert hall attack: Why is ISIL targeting Russia?  | ISIL/ISIS News

Moscow concert hall attack: Why is ISIL targeting Russia?  | ISIL/ISIS News

More than 133 people have been killed and more than 100 others were injured following a brazen attack on concertgoers at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall before a performance by a Soviet-era rock band on Friday. Assailants dressed in camouflage uniforms opened fire and reportedly threw explosive devices inside the concert…

Maqali, a simple Syrian dish that saved a displaced family’s Ramadan iftar | Food

Maqali, a simple Syrian dish that saved a displaced family’s Ramadan iftar | Food

ِAl-Yaman Camp, Idlib, northwest Syria – Looking to make something tasty and thrifty, Bayan al-Jassem, 32, decided to reach for a staple of the Syrian kitchen, maqali (said with a glottal stop). The decision was reached a few hours before sundown on the second day of Ramadan, the holy month…

A woman has to be ‘stronger than a lion’ to cross the Mediterranean | Migration

A woman has to be ‘stronger than a lion’ to cross the Mediterranean | Migration

Mediterranean Sea – On the open sea, thousands of kilometres from land, on a flimsy blue wooden boat, 21-year-old Linda* from Daraa, Syria, didn’t care if she lived or died. She and 125 other refugees had left the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha in the dark of night, and her…

Iran Revolutionary Guard member and two others killed in attack in Syria | Conflict News

Iran Revolutionary Guard member and two others killed in attack in Syria | Conflict News

Iranian media reports say IRGC member Reza Zarei was killed in a suspected Israeli attack in the port city of Baniyas. A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two other people have been killed in a suspected Israeli attack, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported. IRNA said…

One person killed at anti-government protest in Syria’s Sweida province | Protests News

One person killed at anti-government protest in Syria’s Sweida province | Protests News

The 52-year-old becomes the first person to be killed by pro-government forces since the protests began in August. At least one person has died of gunshot wounds sustained in an anti-government protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the southern province of Sweida, according to local news outlets and monitoring…

Paint and tears: Northwest Syria commemorates 2023 earthquakes | Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Paint and tears: Northwest Syria commemorates 2023 earthquakes | Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Jindires, northwest Syria – On the night of February 5, people across northwest Syria stayed up all night, till 4:30am, before they could close their eyes and sleep, reassured that the anniversary of last year’s earthquakes had passed without somehow triggering another devastating quake. The caution was not based on…

‘I said I’d bury my son with his graddad’: Tales from Syria’s earthquake | Turkey-Syria Earthquake

‘I said I’d bury my son with his graddad’: Tales from Syria’s earthquake | Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Idlib, northwest Syria – At the top of a green hill separating the Syria-Turkey border from the small village of al-Allani in the northern countryside of Idlib, Ibrahim al-Aswad stands contemplating rubble that a year ago was a two-storey home. “We were 15 people and only six of us survived,”…

How are journalists in Gaza coping with the war? | Israel War on Gaza

How are journalists in Gaza coping with the war? | Israel War on Gaza

When the cameras stop rolling and the press vests come off, how do the journalists who cover war cope? We often forget that journalists covering wars are regular people, too. They are parents, siblings, friends and colleagues. And sometimes, they, too, are struggling to survive whatever story they are trying…

Syrian earthquake survivors still sleep outside one year on | Earthquakes

Syrian earthquake survivors still sleep outside one year on | Earthquakes

NewsFeed Families in Syrian towns devastated by last year’s earthquake are still choosing to sleep in tents outside, one year on. They fear that another quake could strike at any moment and that they could be crushed in their sleep. The Turkey-Syria earthquakes struck the region on February 6, 2023,…