Keeping Syria’s Displaced Warm
Damascus Bureau (a civil society independent website)
March 30, 2016
Winter is a harsh season in Syria and these homeowners urgently need our help
Winter is a harsh season in Syria and these homeowners urgently need our help
Thousands of detainees transferred from Adra central prison to ill-equipped facilities, while authorities continue to profit from extorting inmates and their family members
Syrian president issues law offering risk insurance for credit and loans provided for small and medium projects
We huddled together crying while they rampaged through our home, smashing things to pieces and throwing our personal belongings out on top of us.
Law aims to unite all financial rules related to revenue and support for local governments
Government forces blockade the Damascus district with regime checkpoints preventing residents from returning to their homes
Life has improved for the 48-year-old due to an initiative supporting local agriculture from the Syrian Business Forum (SBF)
Protesters in the capital call for the release of women and children detained by regime forces since Wednesday
Syrian president unveils reconstruction project in capital which aims to provide 110,000 jobs
The farmer could not afford to buy a generator and enough fuel to keep the well working, never mind the additional cost of pesticides and fertilizers
Bank’s general manager says over 600 borrowers have been banned from traveling due to non-performing loans
Dozens of regime forces including two high-ranking officers killed in ambush on “al-Fadaiyeh” front in foiled attempt to seize the southwestern countryside
Local Baath Party head urges Syrians to exercise their voting rights in parliamentary elections scheduled for mid-April
Merchants are angry at the government for its role in curbing their aspirations to turn the country into “free zones” with no monitoring or accountability. But they may be surprised by the true meaning of anger…
Seven provinces agree to renew interest-free loans program for poor and impoverished groups to undertake medium, small and micro projects
“These graves are not a place of pilgrimage, they are not the graves of saints – they are the graves of two parents, buried by their son in their house’s courtyard, so that he could be close to them”
UN envoy says some clashes have been reported in several areas but progress has been visible
Practitioners and businesses meet in the capital for three-day conference on latest medical advances and research
Elections body says over 11,300 applications are to be reviewed in the coming days
Violations recorded in nearly all Syrian provinces as cease-fire witnesses its third day
