President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most US sanctions on Syria this week, cementing a sea change in his ...

Syria’s southern Daraa province has seen serious violations and abuses by new general security personnel—including killings, ...

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.

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

Many houses have been destroyed, looted or confiscated by Turkish-backed armed groups in areas they seized during Operation Peace Spring. Similar acts have been carried out with impunity by a range of ...

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

After years of violations, HTS aims to adopt a new policy of openness towards Idlib’s minorities, returning some seized properties and encouraging Christians and Druze to return. Still, discrimination ...

Twelve years after the Syrian revolution began, formal opposition political and service institutions are wholly reliant on Turkey, impacting service provision and governance in the areas they ...

Women’s presence and role over the past decade reflect the course of the revolution: the militarization, emergence of separated areas controlled by different international, regional and local actors, ...

Planned talks between the AANES and Damascus were postponed this week, while efforts to implement the March 10 agreement remain slow and complex. Two separate delegations from the northeast aim to ...

AMMAN — Women gather to drink morning coffee at an apartment in a housing complex with a beautiful view of the northern Abu Nseir area, a suburb of the Jordanian capital Amman. It is a seemingly ...

Digital violence is rampant in northwestern Syria, where women are particularly vulnerable to online blackmail and harassment by scammers, with little legal or social support.