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Women, children face legal limbos and statelessness following collapse of Islamic State ‘caliphate’

August 01

Children in the Ain al-Issa camp in December 2017. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP. When the US-led international coalition launched its campaign against the Islamic State (IS) in 2...

Cyber attacks and surveillance in Assad’s Syria: ‘They can do whatever they want, they own the infrastructure’

July 26

Dlshad Othman speaks at the UN in 2012. Photo courtesy of Eric Bridiers/Creative Commons. Cybersecurity expert Dlshad Othman remembers a joke among Syrian activists after un...

‘The photos he left behind speak for themselves’: Remembering the work of Yarmouk photographer Niraz Saied

July 25

Two Yarmouk residents in 2015. Photo courtesy of Niraz Saied. During the days of the siege, young photographers and media activists Niraz Saied and Ahmad Abbasi combed the street...

‘They took the idea of a ceasefire and distorted it’: Opposition negotiator reflects on de-escalation after Daraa battle

July 23

Government buses gather in held Daraa in a photo from July 15. Photo courtesy of Nabaa Media. Yahya al-Aridi had his first foray into negotiations in the early 90s, when he...

Dozens of families ‘trapped’ in no-man’s land along Jordan border following government advances in Daraa

July 19

Displaced Syrians place tents near the Jordanian border on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Abu Saeed. In a barren patch of land between Syria’s southwestern Daraa pr...

Kurdish political body gains increased independence in opposition’s negotiating committee despite rankling over Afrin operation

July 17

Members of the Syrian High Negotiations Committee (HNC) in Riyadh in June. Photo courtesy of HNC. In late June, the Syrian opposition’s main negotiating body, the High Nego...

In a first for opposition-run local governance, a woman leads Aleppo’s displaced city council

July 10

Members of the newly elected Aleppo City Council last week, with Hashim center left in a white headscarf. Photo courtesy of The Local Council of Aleppo City. In a landslide victo...

In one Syrian displacement camp, World Cup an ‘escape’ from reality

July 09

Deir Ballut Camp residents watch the Spain-Iran World Cup match outside al-Sayyed’s tent on June 20. Photo courtesy of Rami al-Sayyed. More than a dozen men, young and old,...

After five years in Lebanon, one refugee makes a bittersweet return to Damascus

July 03

As the bus carrying Rahab Um Bakr wound its way through the streets of Damascus this past Sunday, the 36-year-old looked out the window at a city scarred by years of war. It was ...

After eight years of military service, one Syrian soldier prepares for a long-awaited return to ‘normal life’

May 29

Somur Abu Fida never expected his engagement to last so long. But just months after the Syrian Arab Army soldier proposed to his fiancée in 2010, protests and violence spr...

Sieda: ‘The Kurdish issue must be resolved within a national framework that includes all Syrians’

‘#BeatsNotBombs’: Idlib rapper protests all parties

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

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