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After cuts, German aid agency reinstates funding to health directorates in rebel-held north with ‘strict conditions’

February 25

German development agency GIZ reinstated vital funding to health directorates across northwestern Syria according to “strict conditions,” local officials told Syria Direct on Mond...

Souriyeh / سوريّة: Women’s voices from Syria

February 21

For around five years, Judi Arash lived under siege in a bombed-out, encircled rebel-held area of northern Homs that, at one point, was restricted to just three square kilometers....

After inconclusive talks in Sochi, pro-government artillery escalates bombardment on key Idlib towns

February 17

AMMAN: Pro-government forces escalated artillery and rocket barrages on rebel-held towns in Syria’s northwest on Sunday, days after trilateral international talks between Iran, Ru...

Local councils, civil society brace for HTS takeover after cuts to healthcare funding in rebel-held northwest

January 20

AMMAN: Civil society organizations and local government bodies in Syria’s rebel-held northwest are bracing for funding cuts and an encroaching transition towards hardline Islamist...

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...

Alleged IS suicide attack on Manbij restaurant kills four US soldiers, injures more than a dozen civilians

January 16

AMMAN: An Islamic State fighter detonated a suicide vest beside a restaurant in downtown Manbij, Aleppo province, on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least 15 people—including seve...

Free Syrian Police in northwestern Syria to ‘dissolve’ amid HTS takeover

January 10

AMMAN: The Free Syrian Police, an opposition-affiliated law enforcement apparatus operating in areas of Syria’s rebel-held northwest, will “dissolve” in the wake of a military tak...

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 continues offensive against areas of rebel-held northwest, ‘cutting off’ and seizing nearly a dozen towns from factional rivals

January 08

AMMAN: Hardline Islamist fighters from Hay’at Tahrir a-Sham seized nearly a dozen towns and villages from rival Syrian opposition factions in the country’s northwest Tuesday morni...

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 ...

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