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

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.

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

With the war over, Syrians face a new struggle: addressing past harms and building a peaceful future together. With ...

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 ...

June 25, 2013 Mahmoud Ali al-Khalaf, Secretary General of the Moderate Party, responds to Syria Direct’s two-part series published last week looking at attitudes among Syria’s opposition toward Sunnis ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon have settled in the country’s 12 official Palestinian refugee camps, which were set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for ...

AMMAN — Razan Zaitouneh, Samirah al-Khalil, May Skaf, Fadwa Suleiman. These are the names of women who have become, with many other Syrian women, defining figures and symbols of the Syrian revolution.

PARIS — In the latest merger between factions in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), in mid-April Hayat Thaeroon for Liberation—a months-old formation— announced that the Failaq al-Rahman ...

DAMASCUS/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the ...

PARIS — Six years after its forces left for northwestern Syria following a settlement agreement that saw Damascus regain control of the south, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has returned in the form of ...