Outer Damascus

Podcast “Thawriyya”: An enduring revolution for Syrian women activists

Jun 01,2020

Anger and confusion erupt over the Syrian government’s decision to ration bread through the smart card

As losses mount in Idlib, Damascus sends conscripts from “reconciled” areas to the front

Darayya: Three years in waiting for the return of life

Silence, paranoia in decimated East Ghouta suburbs one year after government recapture

LATEST FROM Outer Damascus

‘The beginning, not the end’: What are the prospects of return for Syria’s internally displaced?

September 25

Syrians flee their homes in Idlib on September 6. Photo by Aaref Watad/AFP. As the Syrian government gradually reasserts control over the majority of the country, officials have ...

‘Nothing is as it should be’: Residents in East Ghouta struggle under broken economy six months into government rule

September 20

Al-Jalaa Street, site of Douma’s largest market, in December 2014. Photo courtesy of Khaled Oyion. AMMAN: Numan Abu Rateb doesn’t like to speak about life under siege...

After displacement to the north, Syrians from East Ghouta navigate fragmented opposition administration

September 05

A Turkish government official visits al-Bab Local Council in February. Photo courtesy of al-Bab Local Council. AMMAN: Displaced from East Ghouta earlier this year, and with a new...

Despite government assurances, fears of conscription among young East Ghoutans sour hopes for return to university

September 03

Downtown Damascus in July. Louai Beshara/AFP. AMMAN: Nasser was into his third year of a business and economics degree at Damascus University in 2012 when battles between rebel a...

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...

East Ghouta families mired in unrecognized births, marriages after years under opposition rule

August 02

A street in Douma on July 26. Photo by Louai Beshara/AFP AMMAN: Under siege in East Ghouta last year, Umm Hassan was running out of options. The mother of three from Douma, the ...

With dark humor and codewords, East Ghoutans unlearn ‘vocabulary of the revolution’ as Assad reasserts control

July 31

When Samer Yasseen visited the Syrian government’s newly established Outer Damascus administrative office last month, he said something he perhaps shouldn’t have.

Families of Syria’s disappeared scramble for answers as government quietly closes thousands of detention files

July 24

A mural on rubble in Daraya memorializes people forcibly disappeared in 2016. Photo courtesy of Majd el-Maaddamani. AMMAN: Abdulrahman al-Dabaas’ brother, Islam, was wearin...

‘There must be a future to look toward’: Syria Direct graduates 11th cohort of trainee journalists

July 15

Syria Direct graduated its 11th class of young, aspiring Syrian journalists on Sunday after they completed a three-month course in researching and producing in-depth, objective re...

Navigating new lives under Assad, East Ghouta students renew dreams of a university degree

July 12

Young Syrians walk through downtown Damascus in May. Photo by Louai Beshara/AFP. AMMAN: In early July, 24-year-old Sonya al-Hassan left her hometown in the formerly rebel-held ea...

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‘A stab in the back': New wave of rebel infighting in East Ghouta amidst siege, bombardment

Heavy rains cause dam to flood Outer Damascus city, residents evacuated

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