LATEST FROM Suwayda
October 03
After serving for three years in the Syrian Arab Army, from 2012 to 2015, Abu Sari was ready to go home.
The 24-year-old soldier from Syria’s south had fought along the fro...
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October 02
Last winter, a student at the school in Suwayda where Faed Abdullah is the principal brought a canister of diesel with him to class. It was too cold for him to focus, he said...
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September 28
Western media outlets are increasingly adopting a shared narrative on Syria: the end of the war may be years away, but the outcome is clear. The Islamic State will be defeated. Ba...
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September 27
AMMAN: Residents of regime-held Suwayda province in Syria’s south are turning to centuries-old tribal practices to combat lawlessness, solve familial disputes and handle mar...
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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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