AMMAN: The Saudi National Campaign to support Syrian refugees has readied a package of humanitarian relief aid to be distributed in 2016-2017.Slated to receive the aid are 3,185 Syrians in the Mafraq governorate, in northern Jordan, as part of the 24th and 25th phases of two aid programs.The aid package includes a winter bag containing blankets, jackets, sweaters and winter caps, as well as other items to cover the needs of families, as well as a...

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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia launched on Monday a kingdom-wide fundraising campaign for people displaced by the civil war in Syria, including those evacuated from eastern Aleppo.More than 11 million Syrians — around half of the population — have been displaced by the fighting, which began in 2011 and has killed more than 300,000 people.

Get the Gulf Indian Community News, Indian Events in Gulf and Hindi Bollywood Movies in Gulf. Saudi Arabia has initiated a fundraising campaign to collect funds for the Syrians displaced by a five-year civil war, including for the people evacuated from eastern Aleppo.

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s state-run news agency says Lindsay Lohan has visited a government-run refugee camp near Turkey’s border with Syria.The Anadolu Agency said Saturday the US actress toured the social facilities and preschool in Nizip before giving refugee children there presents. She also visited an art and handicrafts workshop where she talked with the female students.Around 5,000 Syrian refugees live in container homes in the camp, which was vi...

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People of Aleppo are suffering from a lack of political will to take decisive action among the world’s powerful countries.

BEIRUT: The Saudi National Campaign in support of the Syrian people continues to distribute relief aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.The distributions were made under the supervision of the acting attaché of the Saudi Embassy in Lebanon, Waleed bin Abdullah Bukhari.

ZAATARI CAMP: The Saudi specialized clinics provided medical care to 2,721 Syrian refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan last week.The medical director of the clinics, Dr. Hamid Al-Mufalani, said that out of the total number of patients treated, 990 were treated at the pediatric clinic, 60 at the heart clinic, 132 at the gynecological clinic and 414 patients received treatment at the general medicine clinic.

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BERLIN: Interminable queues, impenetrable paperwork, unpronounceable German words — the hurdles for any newcomer to Europe’s top economy can be daunting but now there’s an app for that, says a team of enterprising Syrian refugees.It’s called Bureaucrazy, after the often Kafkaesque process of getting housing, health care and a bank account, not to mention seeking asylum.The team is made up of six budding programmers from Berlin’s ReDI School of Di...

RIYADH: The Saudi Specialized Clinics (SSC), the medical arm of the Saudi National Campaign (SNC), which is offering humanitarian support to distressed Syrians, provided medical services to about 500 Syrians living in Al-Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan during the month of September.An SNC official here said Thursday that the SSC provided medical services to 456 refugees living in the camp as part of its medical support being given to the Syrians i...

A six-year-old New York boy wrote a touching letter to Barack Obama, telling the President that he would offer his home to a Syrian refugee boy, BBC News is

Seven children who escaped the war in Syria for a settled life in the UAE began their first day at school this week after educators in Dubai read about their plight and offered to fund their education. Grinning with excitement, the children from the Ibrahim and Al Mousa families arrived at Safa British School and Safa Community School this week. For some of them it was the first time inside a classroom in two years. Even after long and dangerous ...