Syria Direct12d
Protection or intervention? Focus on Syria’s minorities sparks controversy, fuels hate speech
Calls for Syria’s new authorities to guarantee equality and safety for Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities have been loud ...
Syria Direct10d
Who is Atef Najib, the man who fanned the flames of revolution in Daraa?
Syrian security forces arrested Brigadier General Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and former head of ...
Syria Direct5d
Can Suwayda’s factions enforce security and stop the spread of weapons?
The head of the Men of Dignity, the strongest faction in Syria’s Druze-majority Suwayda province, issued a directive this ...
Syria Direct7d
Manbij suffers seventh car bombing since SDF expelled
At least 15 people were killed and 18 injured—most of them women farmworkers—when a car bomb exploded Monday morning in ...
Syria Direct7d
US funding freeze upends global aid, brings Syrian civil society to a standstill
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 ...
Syria Direct11d
In Syria’s ‘barrel bomb capital’ Darayya, housing crisis stalls return
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 ...
Syria Direct21d
Yasser al-Aiti: ‘A Syria without political parties will revert to tyranny’
What will Syria’s new system of government look like? What will its guiding principles be? Will the current de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, lead Syria into a bright, unified future or a dark unknown ...
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With Assad’s fall, Douma comes back to life
DOUMA — Douma, in the East Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, came back to life when the Assad regime fell six weeks ago. Today, the city’s markets are bustling, construction workers are busy repairing ...