Walid Al Nofal

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Walid Al Nofal

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Walid Al Nofal is a journalist with Syria Direct originally from Daraa province in southern Syria. He worked as a field reporter shortly after the Syrian revolution began in 2011 until he moved to Jordan in 2013. Today, Walid’s work focuses on documenting humanitarian violations committed by various actors in the Syrian conflict.

ARTICLES

Suicide bomb strikes HTS-linked government headquarters in Idlib city, amid wave of attacks blamed on IS

January 29

Idlib city in November 2018. Muhammad Haj Kadour/AFP. AMMAN: A suicide bomb ripped through the administrative headquarters of the Syrian Salvation Government in Idlib city Tuesda...

With evacuations of Turkish-backed rebels ongoing, hardline coalition HTS cements control over majority of Syria’s northwest

January 17

AMMAN: Ongoing evacuations of Turkish-backed rebels from frontline positions in northwestern Syria saw at least 1,700 troops from the National Liberation Front rebel coalition exi...

Intra-rebel ceasefire agreement brings HTS offensive to a halt, but expands hardline control in northwest

January 10

AMMAN: Hay’at Tahrir a-Sham and rival opposition factions reached a ceasefire agreement covering areas of Syria’s northwest early Thursday, halting a breakneck offensive by the ha...

HTS seizes key Aleppo province town as group continues to assert itself over rebel-held northwest

January 06

Local rebels evacuate Atareb town on Sunday afternoon. Photo courtesy of This is Syria. AMMAN: Hardline Islamist coalition Hay’at Tahrir a-Sham seized a key town in ...

Road to nowhere: Syrian long-haul truckers find themselves trapped in Egypt’s Sinai

December 20

Syrian-owned trucks sitting in line in Nuweiba, Egypt on November 20. Photo courtesy of Abu Omar. AMMAN: In his decades-long career as a long-haul truck driver, Damascus-born Abu...

‘Like a big prison’: Months into reconciliation, invisible borders still divide Syria’s southwest

December 12

A child rides his bike past a mural of Bashar and Hafez al-Assad in Daraa city in August. Photo by Andrei Borodulin/AFP. Some nights, it’s the sound of military trucks pass...

The other side of the border: In southern Syria, promise of Naseeb border rings hollow for civilians mired by rising prices

November 28

A man sells fish in Daraa city in October. Photo by Mohamad Abazeed/AFP. AMMAN: Ahmad* spends his days sitting in a home without windows, which were bombed out during the Syrian ...

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

November 15

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

October 29

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

October 24

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...