Syria

A new building, consisting of 3 large amphitheaters, 12 educational rooms and 16 administrative offices, has been inaugurated at Damascus University by Prime Minister Hussein Arnous for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Several European travel agencies are now organizing tours in the country, after an interruption of about ten years in consequence of the war

Thousands of students participated in the annual university carnival on Monday, which brought together students from the medical and engineering faculties of Damascus University and ended with a basketball game

After days of the news circulating in Syrian and pan-Arab press, it has been confirmed that Interpol reintegrated the country into its information exchange system, suspended in 2012 in the context of international sanctions against the Assad regime

The Nobel bookshop, one of the most important in Damascus - active since 1970 - has closed; it's the latest in a long series of closures of bookshops and publishing houses, which has dried up the Syrian much-needed cultural life

A decade of war has left more than 350.000 dead, High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council, noting that this total is an "undercount of the actual number of killings"

Several interactive exhibitions were organised to introduce high school graduates to university majors

The directorate of education in Daraa province has asked all staff and students to attend in alternative locations after the schools went out of service after terrorist organizations rejected the settlement solutions

The city of Lattakia is hosting a sports tournament organized by the Homeland Wounded Project and the General Sports Federation; 92 participants, wounded from war, will compete in swimming, table tennis, badminton, basketball from today to 25 August

For the first time, Syrian Scientific Olympiad’s students participated in the Iranian Combinatorics Olympiad, organized remotely with high participation of countries

Table tennis player Hend Zaza, 12 years old - the youngest athlete at the Tokyo Olympics and the fifth youngest of any era - is playing today her first match

Arthereistanbul, independent, nonpartisan space for artistic creation, dialogue, and culture, presents the work of Syrian artists living in Turkey due to the civil war in their country and is helping to connect cultures beyond discrimination and prejudice