LATEST FROM Latakia
September 13
Wreckage after an airstrike in Idlib this June. Photo courtesy of Idlib Civil Defense.
AMMAN: An uneasy calm hangs heavy over Syria’s rebel-held northwest. While fewer...
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May 29
Somur Abu Fida never expected his engagement to last so long.
But just months after the Syrian Arab Army soldier proposed to his fiancée in 2010, protests and violence spr...
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January 15
Syria Direct graduated its ninth class of aspiring Syrian journalists Sunday after they completed a three-month course on the basics of journalism at our office in Amman, Jordan.
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November 16
AMMAN: Syrian regime authorities in the coastal city of Latakia have reportedly demolished dozens of homes and shops in a former Palestinian refugee camp over the past two weeks, ...
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July 11
When she first started working at the police station, Nawwal’s male colleagues gave her strange looks, and kept their distance. She and her female colleague often sat alone,...
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March 28
AMMAN: Russian warplanes unleashed “dozens” of airstrikes in northwest Syria’s opposition-held Idlib province late Monday night, killing at least five civilians ...
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March 17
Welcome to the latest installment of the Syria SITREP highlighting key developments in the Syrian Civil War. The SITREP Map is made possible through a partnership between the Inst...
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March 13
Three masked gunmen kidnapped Mustafa, 50, just outside his home in the small coastal city of Jableh, 23km southeast of Latakia’s provincial capital last September. They did...
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March 09
Leila couldn’t see the Turkish army snipers through the darkness late Sunday night, but when she heard warning shots, she knew it was time to run. She grabbed her two sons, ...
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March 02
When Abu Raed smelled smoke in the air on Wednesday morning, he immediately thought back to last November, when forest fires blazed through his village in the low-lying mountains ...
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