Mahmoud Hamza

Farmers who rely on the Afrin River to irrigate their crops suffer heavy losses after the river ran dry this summer due to factors related to the February 6 earthquake and a changing climate.

Predictions and rumors of another earthquake are increasingly popular among residents of earthquake-affected parts of Syria due to thousands of aftershocks and the lack of a reliable body providing periodic updates about the disaster.

IDLIB — Five months ago, Muhammad al-Oqda stood in the […]

IDLIB — The February 6 earthquake that struck northern Syria […]

Coinciding with the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, more than 300 children who live in displacement camps or work in opposition-controlled Idlib are participating in a parallel soccer tournament: the Camps World Cup. 

As opposition factions clash, residents of displacement camps in the area between HTS-controlled Idlib and SNA-controlled Aleppo are in the line of fire and fleeing, if they can.

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham is moving to open a crossing in eastern Idlib province with regime-held territory that would financially benefit both itself and Damascus. 

For residents of northwestern Syria, juggling multiple identification documents for different authorities administering the country’s last opposition-held territories is a headache, and a fact of life. 

In Idlib, a province often mentioned in the same breath as humanitarian crises and bombings, an urban and commercial revival is underway in some cities and towns as local businesspeople invest in large trade and residential complexes.

On July 12, the UN Security Council extended the Syrian cross-border aid mechanism for six months. But with the future still uncertain, alternatives to in-kind aid are being used in some northwestern Syrian camps—with mixed results.