After government victory, one Douma resident visits home for the first time in six years
Approaching the outskirts of Douma city with two of his four sons in the car earlier this month, Sa...
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Refugees expert: ‘More displacement’ to come as returning Syrians face myriad obstacles back home
Syrian refugees in Beirut prepare to depart for Damascus in September. Anwar Amro/AFP.
Years of ...
'History is repeating itself' for Palestinian refugees displaced for second time in south Damascus evacuations
Starting over in Damascus with one bag of clothes and a tent after fleeing Palestine in 1967, Ibrah...
US needs ‘coherent approach’ to Syria policy, says ex-Department of Defense analyst Melissa Dalton
Last month, American warplanes and missiles struck Assad government positions in Syria for the seco...
‘A person who believed’: Remembering Razan Zaitouneh on her 41st birthday
One by one, prisoners exited government buses into a packed auditorium in Damascus earlier this mon...
Three women shaping the future of Syria by taking part in the workforce
Syria’s women are increasingly taking on the role of primary breadwinner in their families as...
Civil society activist defies war and Islamist intimidation in her efforts to empower women
While running a beauty salon in the Idlib province town of Kafr Nubl for nearly two decades, Ghalya...
Women’s participation a precondition for Syrian democracy, says high-ranking Kurdish politician
Fouzah Youssef is currently one of the highest-ranking politicians in the de facto autonomous, Kurd...
Members of UN female advisory body ‘still fighting’ for direct influence in Syrian peace talks
Syrian civil society activist Rajaa Altalli has been fighting alongside other Syrian women to make ...
A seat at the table: How can women’s participation promote peace in Syria?
Over the past seven years of fighting in Syria, repeated international efforts to broker peace have...
‘The first obstacle to any talk of reconstruction is return,’ says AlHakam Shaar of the Aleppo Project
During four years of battles for Aleppo, frontlines cut across the city’s center, dividing go...
