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LATEST FROM Daraa

The other side of the border: Despite fanfare over Naseeb, business owners in northern Jordan await benefits from resumption in trade

November 12

Jordanian residents watch the border traffic from a pedestrian bridge a few hundred meters from the crossing’s entrance. Photo by Madeline Edwards. JABER A-SERHAN, Jordan: ...

Civil society, aid organizations withdraw into the shadows as Syrian government reasserts control

November 08

Vehicles of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent enter Daraa on July 26. Photo by Mohamad Abazeed/AFP. AMMAN: When pro-government forces recaptured the southwestern rebel stronghold of D...

Daraa residents ‘paralyzed’ by economy in recession, collapse of opposition-era civil society and NGO networks

October 29

Daraa city on October 2. Photo by Mohamad Abazeed/AFP. AMMAN: Ever since Um Muhammad lost her teaching job in June, getting by has meant cutting back on expenses, feeding her fou...

‘To Damascus!’ After years of closed borders, bus and taxi routes linking Jordan, Syria return to business

October 24

A taxi, waiting for passengers in Amman's central Abdali district on October 23, offers trips between "Amman-Damascus-Beirut." Photo by Waleed a-Noufal. AMMAN: The shabby-looking...

Life after reconciliation marred by arrests, broken promises as Syria’s southwest returns to government control

October 16

Daraa city in August 2017. Photo courtesy of Mohamad Abazeed. AMMAN: Abu Mahmoud can leave his home and pass through most of the government-run checkpoints that dot the roadways ...

Jordan reopens vital border crossing with Syria amid talk of diplomatic ‘normalization’

October 15

The Naseeb crossing on Monday. Photo courtesy of Damascus Now. AMMAN: Cars began trickling across Syria’s southern Naseeb border crossing with Jordan on Monday morning as t...

‘We want things back to how they were’: Business owners in Jordan’s north await uncertain reopening of Syrian border

October 09

The border wall demarcating the end of Jordanian territory (right) and the beginning of the Free Zone that lies along the Syrian-Jordanian border (left). Photo by Waleed a-Noufal....

Leaving refugee camp behind, Syrian teenager dreams of soccer glory in Brazil sports academy: ‘I’ll make Syria proud’

September 04

Zaatari's main sports field in August. Photo by Waleed a-Noufal. The plane touched down in the coastal Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro last Wednesday, and Syrian socc...

With memories still fresh from Daraa battle, recent arrivals to Idlib fear violence on the horizon

August 29

Russian and Syrian soldiers guard a crossing east of Idlib province in August. George Ourfalian/AFP. AMMAN: Bassel al-Jaber watches his words these days. The 38-year-old arrived ...

What’s next for the millions of internally displaced Syrians? A month-long reporting series from Syria Direct

August 28

Rebel fighters and their families arrive in rural northern Aleppo in April. Nazeer al-Khatib/AFP. After seven years of war, one image in particular has become a potent symb...

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