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As displaced people return to destroyed communities in southern Idlib, local initiatives are emerging as stopgap solutions ...
Planned talks between the AANES and Damascus were postponed this week, while efforts to implement the March 10 agreement ...
MERSIN — Hussein al-Marandi can feel something changing in Gaziantep. For years, the Turkish city around an hour’s drive from the border with his native Aleppo has been an economic hub, hosting ...
ISTANBUL — Taha al-Ghazi was not at home when the police officers arrived on May 16. After knocking on the door of his Istanbul residence, they initially told his wife they were there to verify the ...
SUWAYDA/PARIS — On the morning of May 15, Ghiath (a pseudonym) boarded a bus in Suwayda city to head back to Latakia University, where he is a student. Then the armed men arrived. Members of a local ...
Since Turkish-backed factions took control of northern Aleppo at the start of December, more than 70,000 displaced people have returned to Afrin and its countryside, while others fled to northeastern ...
Walid Al Nofal is a journalist with Syria Direct originally from Daraa province in southern Syria. He worked as a field reporter shortly after the Syrian revolution began in 2011 until he moved to ...
AMMAN: A controversy is brewing in the northern Syrian city of Manbij following the alleged killing last week of two Arab residents at the hands—one prominent local tribe claims—of Kurdish authorities ...
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 ...
مع تأجيل جولة المفاوضات بين دمشق والإدارة الذاتية إلى أجل غير مسمى، ما زال البيت الداخلي للإدارة الذاتية تحكمه الفوضى، خاصة مع وجود وفدين تفاوضيّين، الأول يمثل الإدارة الذاتية، والثاني وفد كردي-كردي ...