On Friday, Belarus’s state-run airline said it had banned Syrians, Iraqis, and Yemenis from incoming flights from Turkey at Ankara’s request after Minsk was accused of bringing in migrants to send on to Europe. In a statement to citizens of the three countries posted on its website, Belavia said they would not be allowed on […]
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Attacks against Syrians in Turkey raise fears of escalation
Ahmad Yassine was working in his barbershop in Istanbul’s working-class district of Kucukcekmece when he saw an angry crowd gather. Then they attacked his business and others owned by Syrians. “They threw stones, the window was completely shattered. There was three of us inside, we were scared,” the young man who fled from Aleppo six […]
Made homeless by war, Syrians sell furniture to survive
For years, Abu Ali sold used furniture and home appliances for a living. But he never thought Syria’s war would one day make him homeless and force him to sell his own. His family is one of dozens stranded in olive groves along the Turkish border, who say they have had to sell their basic […]
Israeli army says closed field hospital for Syrians
Israel has closed a field hospital set up near the Syrian border to treat the sick and those wounded in the conflict ravaging the neighbouring country, the army said Friday. The day clinic was set up in August 2017 and since then had provided medical care to some 6,800 Syrians, the army said in a […]