AFRIN — At the start of April, Amina Ali finally went home. The 58-year-old and her husband returned to al-Maabatli, their town in Afrin, a Kurdish-majority region of northwestern Syria, more than ...

Umm Nidal sits outside her tent in northern Idlib, laundering a large pile of clothes by hand. The water in the large bucket ...

باريس- بالتزامن مع تصاعد حاد في خطاب الكراهية والتحريض الطائفي، تشهد المناطق ذات الغالبية الدرزية في سوريا موجة عنف، منذ أيام، تصاعدت بشكل لافت خلال اليومين الماضيين في جرمانا وصحنايا بريف ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...