Bio
David Leestma
David Leestma studied International Relations at Grand Valley State University. His studies took him to Lebanon, as well as Morocco and Oman with the Critical Language Scholarship in 2014 and 2015. Before joining Syria Direct as a full time reporter, David interned with Syria Direct as a translator and collaborated with ISW to produce the Syria Situation Report.
Latest Articles
With fewer than 1,000 remaining, Darayya rebels ‘abandoned’ as regime advances
AMMAN: Syrian regime forces and allied militias have advanced a […]
‘They didn’t just beat us’: Rebel group destroys media office in Damascus suburb
Last Saturday, thirty men armed with rifles and clubs broke […]
‘There were children in there’: A testimony from a surrendered suicide bomber
In late March, alleged IS affiliate Liwa Shuhada al-Yarmouk (LSY) […]
FSA-affiliated fighters reportedly beat journalist over Facebook post
Fighters with a Free Syrian Army affiliate in east Daraa […]
‘It seems as though the planes are following us’
AMMAN: Over the past five years, hundreds of thousands of […]
‘We died, our families died, even the grass died’: Waer residents describe life under siege
Before the civil war broke out in Syria, Waer was […]