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Daraa residents face arrest, disappearance at local government offices

Daraa's unexploded ordnance: death and corruption

Rising assassinations: Is Daraa going back to square one?

A year after “reconciliation”: Arrests and disappearances abound in southern Syria

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One year after reconciliation, why are southern Syria’s residents paying out of pocket for public services?

June 20

Amman— Residents of one southern Syrian town have taken it upon themselves to provide electricity to their homes, paying out of pocket to set up electrical lines and pooling money...

Fires, reduced prices disappoint northern Syria’s hopes for record harvest

May 26

AMMAN — This winter, heavy rains pounded Qais’s fields on the outskirts of the city of Raqqa, promising him a good season, one that could compensate his losses, repay his debts an...

‘Where are you from?’ Facing fines and bureaucracy, refugee children in Jordan go undocumented

March 21

Children playing in the Zaatari refugee camp in November 2017. Photo by Khalil Mazraawi/AFP. AMMAN: Located off the highway in the southern Amman suburbs, the Syrian embassy in J...

Mysterious assassinations, bombings as ‘security breakdown’ mires Daraa’s fragile peace

February 28

Syrian rebels ride on buses during evacuation from Daraa city in July 2018. Mohamad Abazeed/AFP.

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....

In Daraa, where ‘walls have ears,’ post-reconciliation communities marred by fear, mistrust

February 04

A woman reads the Quran near a relative's tomb in the opposition-held southern Syrian city of Daraa on the first day of Eid al-Adha on August 21, 2018. Mohamad Abazeed/AFP. AMMAN...

Road to nowhere: Syrian long-haul truckers find themselves trapped in Egypt’s Sinai

December 20

Syrian-owned trucks sitting in line in Nuweiba, Egypt on November 20. Photo courtesy of Abu Omar. AMMAN: In his decades-long career as a long-haul truck driver, Damascus-born Abu...

‘Like a big prison’: Months into reconciliation, invisible borders still divide Syria’s southwest

December 12

A child rides his bike past a mural of Bashar and Hafez al-Assad in Daraa city in August. Photo by Andrei Borodulin/AFP. Some nights, it’s the sound of military trucks pass...

The other side of the border: In southern Syria, promise of Naseeb border rings hollow for civilians mired by rising prices

November 28

A man sells fish in Daraa city in October. Photo by Mohamad Abazeed/AFP. AMMAN: Ahmad* spends his days sitting in a home without windows, which were bombed out during the Syrian ...

‘We don’t even know if he’s alive’: Despite promises of reconciliation, rebels and former opposition figures disappear

November 15

Microbuses in Daraa city on October 2. Photo by Mohamad Abazeed/AFP AMMAN: Early morning, November 7. A dead body lies on the side of a back road somewhere on the outskirts of th...

PHOTO BRIEFS

Photo Essay: Everyday Jordanians send mattresses, bread, water to Daraa displaced as border remains shut

Photo Essay: A look inside Islamic State schoolbooks in southern Syria

‘There were children in there’: A testimony from a surrendered suicide bomber

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