A six-month window for refugees in Turkey to visit Syria before committing to return is set to close on July 1. In Kilis, a ...

Alessandra Bajec is a freelance journalist specializing in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in The New Arab, Al Jazeera English and The New Humanitarian, among other places.

The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve ...

Syria’s worst drought in decades has wiped out rain-fed crops and diminished yields across the country, devastating farmers ...

With the war over, Syrians face a new struggle: addressing past harms and building a peaceful future together. With ...

HASAKAH/PARIS — A round of negotiations set to get underway on Friday between Syria’s transitional government and a delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) was ...

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 ...

AKKAR — Two families share a two-bedroom home in Bqerzla, a village in Lebanon’s northern Akkar governorate near the border with Syria. There is no work, so they spend many days crowded around a ...

IDLIB — Nour Raad al-Fares stands over a chunk of concrete, part of what remains of a destroyed building in the northern Hama countryside town of Kafr Zita. Wielding a sledgehammer, he pounds it to ...

Iron salvage is a common form of survival work in northern Syria, a way of eking life out of destroyed buildings—an all-too-plentiful resource. It is also a largely unregulated and hazardous sector, ...

تحولت مهنة سحب الحديد من أنقاض المباني المدمرة في شمال غرب سوريا إلى خيار شعبي للبقاء، ووجه من وجوه التعامل مع الخراب، فهي ليست فقط قصة حديد يُستخرج من تحت الركام، بل حكاية مجتمع يحاول إعادة بناء نفسه ...

منذ نيسان/ أبريل 2024، شددت تركيا إجراءات منح الإقامة السياحية للسوريين، مشترطة إيداع مبلغ مالي مقداره 1.5 من الحد الأدنى للأجور عن كل شخص أو ...