Alaa Nassar

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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

Looming humanitarian crisis as Turkey launches its military operation east of the Euphrates

October 11

AMMAN–Ahmad Ali, 21-years-old, stepped out of his car to fill up his gas tank at a station in Raqqa Province, northeast Syria. As his mother and three young siblings waited inside...

Russian pretexts at Assad's disposal

October 01

AMMAN—Although the reasons that led Russia to intervene militarily in Syria, on September 30, 2015, are “plentiful, complex and interrelated,” according to Taha Abdul Wahed, a Syr...

Hijacking of the “freedom revolution”: HTS imprisons activists in northwest Syria (interactive map)

September 15

During the first week of September, protesters across Idlib province expressed their opposition to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) leader, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, and the Syrian gove...

Darayya: Three years in waiting for the return of life

August 27

AMMAN— A few civilians disembarked from an old bus that had just stopped in the western countryside of Damascus and continued their journey to Darayya, a city that has been pummel...

Khan Sheikhoun: A city that dies more than once

August 15

AMMAN - Until recently, the city of Khan Sheikhoun was a symbol of life in Syria. While some accounts date the building of the city to the Byzantine era, discoveries made of build...

Syrian students in Jordan struggle with multiple obstacles to post-secondary education

August 06

AMMAN- 4761 Syrians sat for high school final exams (tawjihi) this year, according to the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education, Sami al-Salaitah, among which hundreds ar...

Four months in, civilians remain a target of the government military campaign on northwest Syria

August 02

AMMAN- Since the beginning of Russia and the Syrian government’s military campaign on northwest Syria in April 2019, territory control has barely changed.

Thousands of students take primary and secondary school exams in northwest Syria amidst bombing campaign

June 27

AMMAN- Thousands of students sat down to take their final exams last Sunday in the opposition-held area in northwestern Syria following a two-week delay as the Educational Ministr...

Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights: The law is on our side … but politics is against us

June 20

Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in the spring of 2011, humanitarian monitoring and documentation organizations have been active in cataloguing human rights violations a...

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...