DARAYYA — Ghida Matar, 32, knew Darayya was mostly destroyed before she returned from Lebanon on December 31, weeks after the Assad regime fell. Still, what she found in her hometown just south of ...

DAMASCUS — There is life in the streets of Tadamon, a neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Damascus. People haggle with vegetable vendors, and children return home from school, making their way ...

MARSEILLE — On January 20, United States (US) President Donald Trump threw the global aid architecture into chaos, issuing an executive order freezing foreign aid for 90 days pending review. The US is ...

CAIRO — Abdulrahman seems older than his 22 years, with weary eyes and a long beard. Since being deported from Egypt in July, he has lived in hiding in Syria’s central Homs city. “When I do leave my ...

مع استمرار عمليات إزالة الأنقاض وتدويرها في أنحاء سوريا، والإعلان عن مشاريع ضخمة لإعادة تدويرها في البناء، تبرز الحاجة الملحة ...

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 new Syria, Ahmad al-Hayes’s star is rising. At the beginning of May, after being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, the once-leader of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya ...

PARIS — Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure in the southern province or the primary representative of his ...

DARAA/PARIS — “Around this time, our cars would usually be leaving the Yarmouk Valley brimming with zucchini, beans and tomatoes. This year, the Israeli occupation has stopped us, destroying our ...

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 — Local forces affiliated with the Damascus government’s General Security Directorate were killed and injured in an ambush in western Suwayda on Tuesday, in the latest outburst of violence as a ...

PARIS — At the start of 2021, Abu Muhammad (a pseudonym) put his 16 years of teaching at a public school in the Daraa city of Inkhil behind him. His salary of 130,000 Syrian pounds (SYP)—worth $35 at ...