Rescuers say they could have saved many more people after earthquakes with better help from the government. Continue reading ‘Only bones left’: Hopes for earthquake survivors fade in Turkey
Firas al-Ali, a former player for Al Shorta and the Syrian national team, has lost friends, family members and his home in the violence that has engulfed Syria. Continue reading The Syrian football star caught up in revolution and forced into refuge
REYHANLI, TURKEY – Grasping the bed sheets, Abu Staif braced against the pain as he lifted and lowered his weight-strapped right leg. The knee is swollen and there’s a large chunk missing from his lower leg but painfully, painstakingly, he is getting better – thanks to a new mobile physiotherapy unit in the Turkish town of Reyhanli. Just over a year ago Abu Staif, now … Continue reading How a mobile physio unit is helping wounded Syrian refugees to walk again
Richard Jansen was watching the streets, waiting for Islamic State (ISIS) fighters to appear, when a heavy firefight broke out one day in January. “There was shooting like crazy, then it went quiet for a bit,” he recalls. It is not clear what exactly happened next, but Jansen was told that a mortar came out of the silence that followed the firefight, striking a wall … Continue reading The Westerners who fight against ISIS
Writing by Patrick Keddie 