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‘Religious freedoms, political restrictions’: Amid dispute over local education policy, Assyrian writer reflects on minority rights in Syria’s northeast

October 10

Syria’s majority-Kurdish Hasakah province is, for the most part, quiet—tucked into a northeastern corner of the country far from the front lines. But there are signs ...

Despite talk of returns, displaced Syrians in Rukban remain ‘caught in the middle’ of closed borders and geopolitics

October 03

Pocket after pocket of opposition-held territory has fallen to the Syrian government and its allies over the past year in a grim cycle: sieges and bombardments turn to negotiation...

‘The beginning, not the end’: What are the prospects of return for Syria’s internally displaced?

September 25

Syrians flee their homes in Idlib on September 6. Photo by Aaref Watad/AFP. As the Syrian government gradually reasserts control over the majority of the country, officials have ...

Refugees expert: ‘More displacement’ to come as returning Syrians face myriad obstacles back home

September 17

Syrian refugees in Beirut prepare to depart for Damascus in September. Anwar Amro/AFP. Years of warfare have left much of Syria in ruins, with five million Syrians displaced in...

‘No clear path forward’ as Syrian government, rebel factions and international powers brace for possible Idlib battle

September 11

HTS fighters conduct military training exercises in Idlib in August. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP. After pro-government bombardment dramatically escalated this week across northern Hama a...

‘Extremists will move to fill the vacuum’: Halt in funding, encroaching military advances leave future of Syria's Free Police in doubt

September 10

Free Police officers arrest a drug dealer in Idlib in August. Photo courtesy of Idlib Free Syrian Police. For the past six years in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, the Free S...

Leaving refugee camp behind, Syrian teenager dreams of soccer glory in Brazil sports academy: ‘I’ll make Syria proud’

September 04

Zaatari's main sports field in August. Photo by Waleed a-Noufal. The plane touched down in the coastal Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro last Wednesday, and Syrian socc...

Justice and accountability after the Islamic State: ‘Few options’ for victims of IS war crimes

August 23

A Syrian man rides a motorbike in Raqqa in February. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP. Public executions, brutal extrajudicial murders and other atrocities were the norm in are...

With the Islamic State almost entirely pushed out of Deir e-Zor, how can eastern Syria’s tribes pick up the pieces?

August 22

SDF commanders meet with Deir e-Zor tribal leaders on August 15. Photo courtesy of SDF Media. In the deserts of eastern Syria’s Deir e-Zor province, the Islamic State...

‘A treasure house of Syria’s past’: Archaeologists, NGOs reckon with scale of cultural looting in post-IS Raqqa

August 16

Mosaics in the Raqqa Museum after Islamic State battle in August. Photo by Abdullah Ismail. Few insurgent groups in recent memory have made wanton destruction of cultu...

UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria Kevin Kennedy: Closing Bab al-Salameh ‘endangers the lives of children’

Ambassador Frederic Hof: ‘I would be very surprised if I were to see in a Biden administration the resurrection of the Obama approach to Syria’

Co-chair of the PYD: SDF could join government forces in Idlib after an agreement on role in Syrian Armed Forces

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