Idlib province has become a tourist destination for Syrians coming from provinces previously controlled by the ousted Assad ...

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 ...

Should we return to Syria or stay in Jordan? This is our discussion every evening” since Assad fell, Umm Hussam, 35, told ...

Top Kurdish leaders met in northeastern Syria on December 23 in the hopes of forming a unified political delegation to ...

As evening falls, shopkeepers in Raqqa city hurry to close up before curfew. Before long, sirens blare out, signaling that ...

Hayaa Dbeis holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Media and a Master's degree in Sociology. She specializes in ...

MARSEILLE — Every day for a year, Salam al-Nawbani waled 45 minutes from her home in Suwayda to the provincial capital’s central al-Karama (Dignity) Square, the beating heart of the Druze-majority ...

The Syrian transitional government’s Ministry of Interior continued a security operation pursuing “remnants of the former ...

Sally, 45, hesitated for several days before decorating her home in Damascus for Christmas. Hanging lights on a tree covered ...

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 ...

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