Hundreds of former public sector employees in Idlib, arbitrarily dismissed from their positions by the Assad regime, are ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most US sanctions on Syria this week, cementing a sea change in his ...

Many houses have been destroyed, looted or confiscated by Turkish-backed armed groups in areas they seized during Operation Peace Spring. Similar acts have been carried out with impunity by a range of ...

PARIS, IDLIB — The land, 60 dunums in al-Judayda, a Christian village in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, was everything to Julian’s family. From season to season, it sustained them, until Hayat ...

PARIS/IDLIB — “Every moment, we dream of returning home. We hope our stay in the camp will be temporary, not permanent,” Mazen al-Wared began. When he first arrived in this displacement camp 11 years ...

Between January and the end of April, extrajudicial killings of at least 361 civilians took place in Homs and Hama provinces, SNHR told Syria Direct. Most took place in areas inhabited by Alawites, ...

DUHOK — Empty Nutella jars filled with spices stand perfectly ordered on the kitchen shelf. Onions are growing in the garden. Hemrin turns on the fan while she sews the flowery clothes that her ...

PARIS — The police station in Inkhil, a city in the north of Syria’s southern Daraa province, lies in ruins. In April, Farouq al-Hammadi, a member of the Syrian People’s Assembly, tried to change that ...

AFRIN — Amira al-Tawil has experienced the bitter loss of her home and property twice. The first time was in early 2012, when she fled her Damascus neighborhood for Idlib with her family after the ...

SUWAYDA — The immediate risk of a major outbreak of violence in Syria’s southern Suwayda province was averted on Tuesday after an agreement was reached to remove a newly installed regime checkpoint ...

PARIS — The United States-led international coalition appointed Captain Muhammad Farid al-Qassem as the new commander of the coalition-backed opposition Maghawir al-Thawra faction operating in ...

This new experiment in a country known as “the kingdom of silence” was not organized in a disciplined way. “From the beginning of the revolution until mid-2012, the military mobilization stayed ...