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, ...

KILIS — On a sunny spring morning, three women gathered in the courtyard of Kareemat, a women-led peacebuilding organization in Kilis, a southern Turkish city just five kilometers from the Syrian ...

Rain-fed wheat in Daraa: Zero production In the western Daraa countryside, Mahmoud Muhammad al-Sweidani planted his 250 dunams of land with irrigated wheat and barley, also avoiding planting chickpeas ...

HASAKAH/PARIS — A round of negotiations set to get underway on Friday between Syria’s transitional government and a delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) was ...

MERSIN — Hussein al-Marandi can feel something changing in Gaziantep. For years, the Turkish city around an hour’s drive from the border with his native Aleppo has been an economic hub, hosting ...

Between January and the end of April, extrajudicial killings of at least 361 civilians took place in Homs and Hama provinces, SNHR told Syria Direct. Most took place in areas inhabited by Alawites, ...

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 ...

PARIS — Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure in the southern province or the primary representative of his ...

Syria bears a heavy legacy of institutional violence, embodied by the security branches and prisons spread across the country that for many years were the stage of the most horrific crimes against ...

DARAA/PARIS — “Around this time, our cars would usually be leaving the Yarmouk Valley brimming with zucchini, beans and tomatoes. This year, the Israeli occupation has stopped us, destroying our ...

PARIS — The head of the Men of Dignity, the strongest faction in Syria’s Druze-majority Suwayda province, issued a directive this week stressing the importance of ending armed displays and enforcing ...