Coinciding with a sharp rise in sectarian incitement and hate speech, Druze-majority areas of Syria endured a wave of ...

IDLIB — Umm Nidal sits outside her tent in northern Idlib, laundering a large pile of clothes by hand. The water in the large bucket beside her is precious, the fruit of a difficult journey to a well ...

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) estimates 120,000 people have been displaced from areas of northern Aleppo captured by Turkish-backed opposition factions this week.

PARIS — With the signing of an agreement between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi on March 10, many Syrians breathed a sigh of relief. The ...

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 ...

ALEPPO — A second round of prisoner releases was expected in Aleppo city on Monday, three days after members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods ...

REEF DIMASHQ/PARIS — Eid al-Fitr was bittersweet this year for Samah Abdullah, 35, and her family in the Reef Dimashq city of Douma. The daily struggle to make ends meet muddied the “joy of coming ...

Christians in Damascus prepare for the Christmas holiday with a mixture of hope for a new Syria and wariness about the country’s leadership.

ALEPPO — With Assad’s fall last year, internal borders that long separated Syrians from one another faded away. For the first time in years, displaced people could choose to return home. Suddenly, it ...

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 ...

Syrians who lived in areas run by the Turkey-backed opposition Syrian Interim Government (SIG) before Assad fell last year face challenges related to the recognition of their official documents by the ...

Following an initial burst of activity when the regime fell and displaced people returned, markets in Reef Dimashq are faltering and facing new challenges.