Jul. 24, 2018
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...
Jul. 15, 2018
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...
Jul. 12, 2018
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...
Jul. 3, 2018
As the bus carrying Rahab Um Bakr wound its way through the streets of Damascus this past Sunday, the 36-year-old looked out the window at a city scarred by years of war.
It was ...
Jun. 28, 2018
AMMAN: Hundreds of refugees living in northeastern Lebanon packed up their belongings and crossed into government-held eastern Syria on Thursday, in the second organized return co...
May. 24, 2018
AMMAN: Students in formerly rebel-controlled districts east of Damascus face the prospect of losing years of academic work and starting from scratch, an opposition education offic...
May. 21, 2018
Approaching the outskirts of Douma city with two of his four sons in the car earlier this month, Samir al-Hamwi was both thrilled and terrified of what awaited him in his hometown...
May. 17, 2018
AMMAN: Nearly 10,000 property sale contracts drawn up during years of opposition rule in East Ghouta are at risk of being nullified, in the latest documentation-related challenge ...
May. 16, 2018
AMMAN: For the first time since East Ghouta’s capture by government forces in March, displaced families began returning en masse from state-run shelters to their homes in th...
May. 14, 2018
Starting over in Damascus with one bag of clothes and a tent after fleeing Palestine in 1967, Ibrahim al-Khalili built a life, a family and a business in the Yarmouk camp as it sl...
