Waleed Khaled a-Noufal

Waleed a-Noufal was born in Ankhel in northern Daraa province. He attended high school in Ankhel but could not continue his study because of security reasons. Waleed worked as an activist in his local city council and the Umayya Media Center. In 2013, he moved to Jordan and finished his high school degree. Waleed wants to bring about a solution to the current crisis through his reporting. Follow Waleed on Twitter: @walid_ALnofal.

‘We don’t even know if he’s alive’: Despite promises of reconciliation, rebels and former opposition figures disappear

Nov. 15, 2018

Microbuses in Daraa city on October 2. Photo by Mohamad Abazeed/AFP AMMAN: Early morning, November 7. A dead body lies on the side of a back road somewhere on the outskirts of th...

Daraa residents ‘paralyzed’ by economy in recession, collapse of opposition-era civil society and NGO networks

Oct. 29, 2018

Daraa city on October 2. Photo by Mohamad Abazeed/AFP. AMMAN: Ever since Um Muhammad lost her teaching job in June, getting by has meant cutting back on expenses, feeding her fou...

‘To Damascus!’ After years of closed borders, bus and taxi routes linking Jordan, Syria return to business

Oct. 24, 2018

A taxi, waiting for passengers in Amman's central Abdali district on October 23, offers trips between "Amman-Damascus-Beirut." Photo by Waleed a-Noufal. AMMAN: The shabby-looking...

Life after reconciliation marred by arrests, broken promises as Syria’s southwest returns to government control

Oct. 16, 2018

Daraa city in August 2017. Photo courtesy of Mohamad Abazeed. AMMAN: Abu Mahmoud can leave his home and pass through most of the government-run checkpoints that dot the roadways ...

Jordan reopens vital border crossing with Syria amid talk of diplomatic ‘normalization’

Oct. 15, 2018

The Naseeb crossing on Monday. Photo courtesy of Damascus Now. AMMAN: Cars began trickling across Syria’s southern Naseeb border crossing with Jordan on Monday morning as t...

‘We want things back to how they were’: Business owners in Jordan’s north await uncertain reopening of Syrian border

Oct. 9, 2018

The border wall demarcating the end of Jordanian territory (right) and the beginning of the Free Zone that lies along the Syrian-Jordanian border (left). Photo by Waleed a-Noufal....

After Idlib agreement, hints of HTS-NLF tensions in one rebel-held town

Sep. 27, 2018

The remnants of an explosion in Darat Izza last week. Photo courtesy of Darat Izza City’s Media Office. AMMAN: Half of the roads leading into an opposition-held town in nor...

‘If the calm holds’: After agreement over the fate of Syria’s northwest, displaced civilians cautiously return home to proposed buffer zone

Sep. 26, 2018

Airstrikes hit Latamna in early September. Photo courtesy of Syrian Civil Defense-Hama. AMMAN: When Bashir al-Ahmad entered his hometown of Latamna in Syria’s northwe...

‘I don’t know where I can go’: Thousands displaced by bombardment in northwestern Syria

Sep. 9, 2018

After a government airstrike in al-Hubeit on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Syrian Civil Defense Idlib. AMMAN: Scores of Russian and Syrian airstrikes and artillery barrages pummeled ...

Syrians brave Turkish gunfire, rugged backroads to escape looming Idlib battle

Sep. 6, 2018

Turkish-backed rebels near the border wall in Idlib province, October 2017. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP. AMMAN: The shouts of a Turkish soldier broke the silence as Suleiman Ibrahim* and...