by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Jan 19, 2017 | Middle East
A Saudi official said that Saudi convoys carrying about 600 tons of medicines and medical supplies will enter Yemeni territory next week in coordination with the relevant Yemeni organisations. The General Supervisor of the King Salman Centre for Relief and...
Piles of garbage lie uncollected on the streets of Aleppo. (Asharq Al-Awsat photo)
by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Mar 6, 2013 | Features
Aleppo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Choked, chaotic Aleppo: two years ago this was the mercantile capital of Syria, now it is a city made medieval by war. Since last summer there has been no grid power in the neighborhoods controlled by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), and as the sun...