Syria Situation Report: June 10 - June 17, 2016
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...
Suwayda
The other side of the border: In southern Syria, promise of Naseeb border rings hollow for civilians mired by rising prices
A man sells fish in Daraa city in October. Photo by Mohamad Abazeed/AFP.
AMMAN: Ahmad* spends his days sitting in a home without windows, which were bombed out during the Syrian government’s blitzkrieg offensive on opposition-held southern Syria earlier this year.
The 26-year-old used to work for the Syrian Civil Defense—the group of first responders commonly known as the Whi...
50,000 displaced Syrians stranded at Jordan desert border
AMMAN: When Islamic State fighters captured his east Homs village last May, Mohamed Homsi didn’t hesitate to pack his wife and seven children into the back of a pickup truck...
Suwayda protesters remove Hafez al-Assad’s portrait, call for fall of Bashar
AMMAN: A parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Syria’s independence from France transformed into an anti-regime protest on Sunday, with nearly 200 marchers replacing ...
Druze sheikh released after militia strongarms regime in Suwayda
One day after regime soldiers arrested a member of the Sheikhs of Dignity at a checkpoint ostensibly because he was “wanted for military service,” the armed wing of th...
After ‘marginalizing’ the east, Daraa’s new electoral system aims for equity
Last week the opposition government in FSA-controlled areas of Daraa held the first round of elections for the province’s new representative council, electing six members to...
Sheikhs of Dignity release last detainees from Daraa
The Sheikhs of Dignity released the “last batch” of detainees on Friday, a pro-opposition journalist and activist in Suwayda told Syria Direct Sunday, tentatively en...
‘I do not expect the regime will dig its own grave by moving on Suwayda’
In the aftermath of the Friday assassination of its leader, Sheikh Wahid al-Balaus, the Druze Sheikhs of Dignity movement attacked and reportedly took control of a number of ...
A Man Apart in Suwayda
Suwayda internet cut off after protest critical of regime
The Syrian government reportedly cut off internet access to Suwayda province one day after more than a thousand residents demonstrated in the provincial capital in a move that org...
Syria: Bread prices by province
Bread prices in Syria vary widely from province to province: In Damascus, a standard 1kg bag of bread costs between SP35-75 ($.20-.40). To the south, in Daraa province, the pric...
