Calls for Syria’s new authorities to guarantee equality and safety for Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities have been loud ...
Douma, in the East Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, came back to life when the Assad regime fell six weeks ago. Today, the city’s ...
What will Syria’s new system of government look like? What will its guiding principles be? Will the current de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, lead Syria into a bright, unified future or a dark unknown ...
MARSEILLE — Riding a wave of euphoria, thousands of displaced Syrians rushed home after the Assad regime fell nearly six weeks ago. Many found only ruins, their houses razed or heavily damaged and ...
With the Assad regime gone, Douma is coming back to life. Markets are bustling in the East Ghouta city, as construction workers repair damaged buildings and displaced residents return to visit or ...
IDLIB — Idlib province has become a tourist destination for Syrians coming from provinces previously controlled by the ousted Assad regime. Curious visitors, surprised by the economic, commercial and ...
ERBIL — On January 8, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) announced the killing of five civilians and injury of 15 others when a protest convoy heading for the Tishreen Dam ...
AMMAN — “Should we return to Syria or stay in Jordan? This is our discussion every evening” since Assad fell, Umm Hussam, 35, told Syria Direct from Zaatari, Jordan’s largest camp for Syrian refugees.
PARIS — Notables and military commanders from the Yarmouk Basin, an area in the southwestern corner of Syria’s southern Daraa province, met on Tuesday in the town of al-Shajara to form a service ...
ERBIL — Omar Jamil (a pseudonym), 35, returned home with his wife, parents and five children on December 4 to his village in the Sherawa area of Syria’s northwestern Afrin countryside. He had been ...
Mahmoud al-Shamali is a Syrian journalist from Idlib. He holds a law degree from Aleppo University and has participated in a number of Syria Direct’s trainings and projects. He has also worked for ...