The Syrian transitional government’s Ministry of Interior continued a security operation pursuing “remnants of the former ...

Idlib province has become a tourist destination for Syrians coming from provinces previously controlled by the ousted Assad ...

Hundreds of shops line a five-kilometer stretch of the main thoroughfare in Zaatari, Jordan’s largest Syrian refugee camp.

Hayaa Dbeis holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Media and a Master's degree in Sociology. She specializes in ...

Mahmoud al-Shamali is a Syrian journalist from Idlib. He holds a law degree from Aleppo University and has participated in a number of Syria Direct's trainings and projects. He has also worked for ...

ERBIL — Omar Jamil (a pseudonym), 35, returned home with his wife, parents and five children on December 4 to his village in the Sherawa area of Syria’s northwestern Afrin countryside. He had been ...

MARSEILLE — Every day for a year, Salam al-Nawbani waled 45 minutes from her home in Suwayda to the provincial capital’s central al-Karama (Dignity) Square, the beating heart of the Druze-majority ...

AMMAN — “Should we return to Syria or stay in Jordan? This is our discussion every evening” since Assad fell, Umm Hussam, 35, told Syria Direct from Zaatari, Jordan’s largest camp for Syrian refugees.

RAQQA/PARIS — As evening falls, shopkeepers in Raqqa city hurry to close up before curfew. Before long, sirens blare out, signaling that all residents must remain inside from 7 o’clock in the evening ...

SDF-held Raqqa city is tense, its nights under curfew punctuated by gunfire and arrests. Residents feel cut off from the rest of Syria, fearing the possibility of partition and a return of IS.