Rewarding Idlibs Brightest students
An Idlib awards ceremony has honoured students who had achieved outstanding exam results in maths, physics, chemistry, Arabic and English. More than 700 male...
Bitter Winter Bites for Displaced Syrians
Freezing winter conditions have made the last few months particularly difficult for displaced Syrians living in camps in Idlib’s countryside. Winters in the region...
Tamkeen Programme Supports Syrian Communities and Initiatives
Alya recently delivered her first child at the Maternity and Child Welfare centre in the town of Hass, in Syria’s Idlib province. All her...
Confusion Reigns in Kfar Nabel’s School System
Sara, 15, sets out every morning for the Sharia Institute for Scientific Excellence in Kafr Nabel. At this school, run by the Islamist group...
Delivering Hot Meals to Syria’s Homeless
Each afternoon Imad sits outside his tent waiting for his free meal. The nine-year-old is one of many children whose families have been internally...
Reopening Idlib’s Schools
Fuad al-Yusef wakes up filled with excitement each morning at the prospect of going to school. Like hundreds of other children in Idlib’s countryside,...
Rebuilding Houses and Lives in Wadi al-Dayf
Umm Ahmad’s displacement began when her home in the village of Maar Hatat was shelled and reduced to rubble. The 45-year-old widow and her...
A Wartime Education
My name is Razan. I was born in 1999 and spent my childhood in Deir al-Zor, where I completed elementary school. Afterwards, I continued...
Separated by War
My husband, my two young sons and I had fled Syria to take refuge in Lebanon. In Beirut, my husband found a job in...
Therapy Helps Idlib’s Traumatised Children Speak Up
Hani, 12, has a severe stutter, often faints and has difficulty controlling his bladder. These problems began on April 13, 2015, when he was...
“Free Police” Patrol Rebel-Held Parts of Syria
When Youssef al-Tanari’s motorcycle warehouse was burgled in April 2015, he filed a report with the Free Police in Maarat al-Numan. Officers at the...
After Army’s Defeat, People Trickle Back to Idlib Towns
Families have begun returning to towns and villages in the southern countryside of Syria’s Idlib province since rebel forces seized the Wadi al-Dayf and...
Child Labour on the Rise in Opposition Areas
Khalid is 12 years old and works as a shepherd in the village of Kafruma in Idlib’s countryside. “My father is an opposition fighter,...
Idlib’s Courts of Arbitration
After Samia Abdin’s marriage broke down and ended in divorce, she tried to seek custody of her only son. The 28 year-old took her...
Idlib Farms Turn to Wastelands
Mustafa al-Darwish owns half a square kilometre of land in Tal Minis, a village in the south of Idlib province. He used to plant...
