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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 ...
QAMISHLI — At her home in Syria’s northeastern Qamishli city, high school student Sima Ahmed sits down to study and do her homework in Kurdish, her mother tongue and the language that “reflects my ...
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 ...
The Zaatari refugee camp’s bustling economy ground to a halt when the Assad regime fell. Local shopkeepers say the value of their businesses has collapsed as residents uncertain about their future in ...
Enforced disappearance is among the most widespread and devastating crimes in Syria. But the lived reality for the loved ones of the missing is more complicated than the strict definition of the term, ...
AMMAN — “Sorry, I don’t have time. I work from seven in the morning to 10 at night.” This was the message Syria Direct received from a Syrian officer who had ...
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 — In the latest merger between factions in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), in mid-April Hayat Thaeroon for Liberation—a months-old formation—announced that the Failaq al-Rahman ...
IDLIB — Ten kilometers from the northern Idlib city of Maarat Misrin, the road bends sharply, curving around an abyss: the al-Hebat quarry. Few dare approach the edge of the chasm, which plunges 60 ...
AMMAN — Razan Zaitouneh, Samirah al-Khalil, May Skaf, Fadwa Suleiman. These are the names of women who have become, with many other Syrian women, defining figures and symbols of the Syrian revolution.