A Johanneburg couple will attempt to summit the highest peak in Africa, Kilimanjaro at the end of August 2015. However, Abubakr and Fahmeedah Nadat have seized the opportunity to use their journey as an initiative to raise awareness and money to help rebuild Palestine and assist the thousands displaced in Syria. In[…]
A bomb explosion Sunday in a tunnel near Aleppo Citadel in Syria damaged a wall of the fortress that is part of the UNESCO-listed Old City, state media and a monitor reported. The blast partly destroyed the wall of the monumental 13th century citadel that overlooks the Old City, said[…]
The largest concentration of Arabs outside the Middle East is in Brazil, which has 9 million Brazilians of Arab ancestry, according to Saudi Aramco World. Of these 9 million Arabs, seven million are of Lebanese ancestry making Brazil’s population of Lebanese greater than that of Lebanon itself. Currently, the refugees[…]
The number of people fleeing the civil war in Syria has now passed four million, according to the UN refugee agency. An overwhelming majority of the refugees have fled to neighbouring countries, with Turkey hosting nearly two million alone, UNHCR said in a report released on Thursday. This is the biggest refugee[…]
The US has only trained about 60 Syrian opposition fighters to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), far below expectations, Defence Secretary Ash Carter has told Congress, citing rigorous vetting of recruits. The programme, which launched in May in Jordan and Turkey, was designed to train[…]
A South African relief organisation is using the blessed month of Ramadan to travel to Turkey to provide aid to refugees living on the border between Syria and Turkey. With almost two million refugees from Syria currently living in Turkey, the situation in Syria is said to be dire; but[…]
Thousands of displaced Syrians have been forced to live on hand-outs during Ramadan, as the country faces a severe food shortage. Many Syrians who were once self-sustainable and able to feed the poor have now become the impoverished. While a South African delegation of ulema travel to Syria this week[…]
The conflict in Syria is pushing an ever increasing number of children into exploitation in the labour market, a new report revealed. Children in the country were now contributing to the family income in more than three quarters of surveyed households, according the report released by Save the Children and[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has beheaded two women and their husbands in eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, a monitoring group said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that ISIL beheaded the couples after accusing them of using “magic for medicine”. It[…]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have launched attacks on two fronts in northern Syria, re-entering the Kurdish town of Kobane and seizing parts of the city of Hasakah. Dozens of ISIL fighters attacked Kobane on the border with Turkey, where at least 12 people were killed[…]
WhatsApp us 