Daraa

Smart cards for rationing: how the Syrian government is outsmarting accountability

Feb 17,2020

Protests in Daraa: Russia absent as Damascus weaponizes ‘tribal schisms’

From denial to discipline: Syrian government responds to the economic crisis

After stealing their dream of freedom, Damascus goes after Syrians’ assets

Russia’s Vision of the “Political Solution” in Syria

LATEST FROM Daraa

Daraa residents face arrest, disappearance at local government offices

September 27

On September 7, two men from Daraa province were arrested while receiving medical treatment, increasing Daraa’s residents’ mistrust of Damascus.

Daraa's unexploded ordnance: death and corruption

September 01

On Sunday, residents of the western countryside of Daraa woke up to the news that a family of five was injured when a mine left behind by the Islamic State affiliate Jaish Khalid ...

Rising assassinations: Is Daraa going back to square one?

July 24

AMMAN- The bombing of a Syrian military bus in Daraa governorate by an unknown group on June 17th exemplified the intensifying violence that is engulfing southern Syria as a multi...

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

July 18

AMMAN- One year after the Syian government retook control of southern Syria, the promised “reconciliation process” is stumbling as the area’s security situation deteriorates due t...

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...

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

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

Rebuilding a culture of sports around a war: ‘We don’t operate in hot zones’

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