Syria’s worst drought in decades has wiped out rain-fed crops and diminished yields across the country, devastating farmers ...

A six-month window for refugees in Turkey to visit Syria before committing to return is set to close on July 1. In Kilis, a ...

The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve ...

Alessandra Bajec is a freelance journalist specializing in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in The New Arab, Al Jazeera English and The New Humanitarian, among other places.

With the war over, Syrians face a new struggle: addressing past harms and building a peaceful future together. With everything at stake, civil peace and transitional justice are both essential and ...

After ‘Operation Peace Spring,’ over 11,000 Syrians fled to Bardarash refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Only 3,500 remain; why?

Christians who remained in HTS territory were generally allowed to work their farmland, while subject to severe restrictions and limitations on their freedoms.Some land was confiscated. The same was ...

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 ...

Most of Daraa’s cities and towns have no police stations nearly six years after returning to Damascus’ control. Where police are present, they have limited powers or work under the watchful eyes of ...

“The water level in underground wells rose between the fourth quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022,” during the winter months when Syria receives most of its yearly rainfall, “but fell ...

A diverse informal economy has emerged in Zaatari since it opened in July 2012. Much of this activity takes place along a three-kilometer stretch of nearly 2,000 shops, known as “Sham Elysées”— a play ...

This new experiment in a country known as “the kingdom of silence” was not organized in a disciplined way. “From the beginning of the revolution until mid-2012, the military mobilization stayed ...