LATEST FROM Outer Damascus
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...
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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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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 ...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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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July 03
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 ...
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June 28
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...
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May 24
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...
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