Just before breaking the Ramadan fast on Sunday evening, Hasan Zaheda played basketball with his son in the tiny courtyard of the basement-level apartment on Rome’s outskirts where the refugee family is rebuilding their lives.

Rome, SANA- Italy has approved an urgent humanitarian aid package for Syria worth 4.5 million euros as part of the humanitarian efforts directed towards Syria.

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Stepping up efforts to find an end to the Syria conflict

ROME — Just before breaking the Ramadan fast ... They have no pictures from their native Syria – they fled Damascus at the height of the civil war with only one change of clothes, diapers ...