Alaa Nassar

Author

Alaa Nassar

Reporter

Alaa was forced to flee Damascus with her family because of the pressure from the Syrian regime in 2013. She was a student of Arabic Language & Literature at the University of Damascus. She came to Syria Direct because she hopes to find a new direction in her life and to show the world what is happening in her country.

ARTICLES

Civil Defense: More than 200 killed in Idlib during Ramadan

June 13

Amman - The Syrian Civil Defense documented 24 people killed and 35 injured on Monday as a result of the Syrian government’s targeting of northern Hama and southern Idlib province...

Dozens dead as Syrian Army counterattacks Kafranbuda in response to Islamist gains

May 23

Amman- Rocket fire killed four civilians and injured 20 others in the city center of Saraqib, southeast of Idlib, in a new escalation by government forces in response to a militar...

“The wall engraved with shrapnel” and the remains of books: Memories of displacement in Idlib

May 21

With each new story of displacement Ahmed lives out, he recalls the details of his house, the windows, the colors of the walls, the beautiful memories he had there. But just as he...

On the anniversary of the peace deal in Southern Damascus “there is no amnesty, no reconciliation.”

May 14

Amman- In May of 2018, Hassan Adal watched as his friends and neighbors boarded buses to take them out of Southern Damascus. Their departure came on the heels of a cease-fire sett...

“Where is there left to go?” Three Clinics are hit in regime strikes in Northwest Syria

May 06

Amman- Khadijat Umm Mohammed sits in her small house on the outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun, its foundation intermittently rattled by the force of nearby explosions. She is waiting fo...

“A true disaster” … Continuous escalation in North Western Syria displaces tens of thousands

May 05

Amman- On the eve of Ramadan in Idlib, barrel bombs fell from the sky. Dawn found families fleeing their homes, wary to keep an eye above for any circling planes.

Latest military escalation in Idlib creates new wave of displaced

May 01

Amman: Late Monday night, a mortar shell landed just meters away from Mohammed al-Sheikh’s house in the village of Kafr Nabuda. The resulting explosion injured his brother and pus...

Syrians in former opposition pockets still using smugglers, corrupt security officials to transport themselves north amid ‘false promises’ of reconciliation

April 11

Residents of formerly opposition-held areas are paying smugglers thousands of dollars to transport them to the country’s last rebel stronghold.

With tents swept away by torrential rains, northern Syria’s displaced seek shelter in mosques, olive groves

April 02

Three rescuers in long blue raincoats cling tight to a rope as a brown-tinted current threatens to sweep them off their path.

Between bread queues and shifting red lines, war-weary Damascus residents navigate a city in flux

April 01

A crowded bus station in downtown Damascus in January. Photo courtesy of Lens Young Dimashqi.