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How many airstrikes has Israel carried out on Syria in 2020? (interactive map)

September 16

View an interactive map of Israel's airstrikes in Syria in 2020.

Damascus struggles to import food as Syrians go hungry

September 03

Syria is increasingly struggling to import the most basic of goods — and its citizens are going hungry as a result.

Losing family overnight: A survivor recalls the Ghouta chemical massacre

August 26

Seven years after the chemical weapons attack in East Ghouta, the pain of survivors has not healed.

Delayed by COVID-19, constitutional committee renews hope in political solution for Syria

August 24

Delayed by COVID-19, the third round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee was meant to be a stepping stone towards a political solution of the civil war.

Update: Syria's official COVID-19 caseload passes 2,000

August 19

Visualizing the current number of Coronavirus cases and potential hotspots in Syria.

Freed from regime prisons, Syrian women seek refuge from social stigma

August 06

After enduring torture and sexual violence in prison, Syrian female survivors face societal stigma upon returning home.

Through newly implemented Baath Party primaries, Assad tightens his grip on the Syrian Parliament

July 23

Though the elections might have been a facile process, it helped consolidate Bashar al-Assad's control on the Syrian parliament.

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’

July 02

Although the newly applied Caesar Act represents an unprecedented American stance regarding the conflict in Syria since the eruption of public protests in the country in 2011, Amb...

Replacements for Rami Makhlouf: Who are the new businesspeople of Syria?

June 22

Now that Makhlouf has been sidelined by the regime, who are the new economic power brokers in Syria?

Rifaat al-Assad: From the Butcher of Hama to aspiring opposition leader

June 21

Who is Rifaat al-Assad and why does his trial matter?

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