Bio
Justin Schuster
Justin Schuster graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in Global Affairs and Modern Middle Eastern Studies. He was a 2015-2016 fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad program (CASA I) in Amman, Jordan. Justin worked as a reporter and translator with Syria Direct before serving as the Managing Director.
Latest Articles
Bombed back into the Stone Age: North Hama residents pay to live underground
AMMAN: Six meters down a narrow, earthen stairwell, Ibrahim al-Jawdi […]
Think things can’t get worse in Darayya? Eyewitness recounts reported incendiary weapons attack
On Tuesday, regime helicopters dropped four barrel bombs containing an […]
With the majority of Idlib hospitals hit by airstrikes, a new maternity hospital opens to little fanfare in undisclosed location
AMMAN: Somewhere in the rebel-held Idlib countryside, a hospital hides […]
Airstrike destroys only church in Idlib city, where Christians once ‘happily coexisted’
AMMAN: A reportedly Russian-fired missile severely damaged Idlib city’s only […]
Now that a regime transport helicopter has been repurposed to ‘drop 6 barrel bombs at once,’ is this the new normal?
On July 26, a Soviet-era Mi-8 transport helicopter dropped six […]
On life in Manbij: ‘We were lucky if the Islamic State even remembered our existence’
Out of food, out of medicine and with no way […]
‘Vacuum bombs’ destroy MSF-supported west Idlib hospital, capping bloody weekend across province
Civil Defense first responders at the Millis Hospital on Saturday. […]
‘I no longer have confidence in the Syrian army’: With rebels at their doorstep, some west Aleppans abandon homes
AMMAN: When a cacophony of mortars and gunfire erupted just […]
80% of Aleppo Old City square destroyed, residents lack tools to rebuild
“Aleppo is the eye of Syria, and the citadel is […]
Once a haven for the internally displaced in west Aleppo, new wave of airstrikes drives out Atareb residents; ‘no place is safe around here’
AMMAN: Residents of a west Aleppo town known for hosting […]