LATEST FROM Suwayda
September 27
All through September, Syria Direct has published a series of interviews and reports on the state of southern Syria, by reporters there, in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer ...
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September 26
These days, coffee shops in Suwayda city are full of young women smoking water pipes—once a social taboo. Women are filling the ranks of the wait staff at local restaurants....
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September 19
After an international ceasefire went into effect in southern Syria in July, Russian personnel deployed to several villages in regime-held Suwayda province near frontlines with op...
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September 11
AMMAN: Half of Syria’s southernmost city, the provincial capital of Daraa, sits in ruins. Thousands of homes and shops lie flattened, the targets of airstrikes and shelling ...
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September 06
AMMAN: The Hadalat displacement camp along Syria’s southeastern border was “totally emptied out” on Wednesday, two rebel spokesmen and a camp official on the gro...
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August 24
AMMAN: A smuggling route that is the source of fuel to the rebel-held half of Daraa province remains cut off for a second week on Thursday after regime forces seized territory cut...
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July 13
A fresh campaign by pro-Assad forces in Syria’s southern desert is sending “hundreds” of residents fleeing into the countryside with almost no water or shelter.
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July 10
AMMAN: Syrian regime and allied forces launched a fresh offensive in the country’s remote southern desert on Monday, just east of an internationally brokered ceasefire zone ...
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June 08
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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May 22
AMMAN: Pro-regime forces in the eastern Syrian desert are advancing towards a coalition base near the Iraqi-Syrian border, while a US military spokesperson tells Syria Direct that...
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