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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

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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...

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...

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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

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

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