Reports

How many airstrikes has Israel carried out on Syria in 2020? (interactive map)

September 16

SDF continues to recruit child soldiers, despite pledges to stop the practice

September 15

Escaping Idlib: Risking death for a chance at life in Turkey

September 13

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August 31

‘A ticking time bomb’: COVID-19 spike catches northeast Syria unprepared

August 25

Losing lives, losing livelihoods: the ordeal of the Syrian workers at the Beiru...

August 11

Turkish dams threaten northeast Syria with ecological and economic blight

July 29

Inside an American journalist’s fight to get off the US ‘kill list’

Escaping hardship in Lebanon, a Syrian father loses his daughter

September 08

This Syrian family is one of dozens that in the last several days found themselves stuck in the buffer zone at the Masnaa border crossing. Most of them could not afford the $100 ‘...

Damascus struggles to import food as Syrians go hungry

September 03

Syria is increasingly struggling to import the most basic of goods — and its citizens are going hungry as a result.

Conflicting signs from Russia enhance Iranian influence in southern Syria

September 02

Contrary to what many analysts have said, Russia and Iran are coming closer together in southern Syria, not farther apart.

'They won’t knock on my door': Discrimination tarnishes post-Beirut blast solidarity

September 01

Although most of the grassroots initiatives have been helping the victims of the explosion regardless of their nationality, some individuals, local NGOs and the Lebanese army have...

Losing family overnight: A survivor recalls the Ghouta chemical massacre

August 26

Seven years after the chemical weapons attack in East Ghouta, the pain of survivors has not healed.

Delayed by COVID-19, constitutional committee renews hope in political solution for Syria

August 24

Delayed by COVID-19, the third round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee was meant to be a stepping stone towards a political solution of the civil war.

Update: Syria's official COVID-19 caseload passes 2,000

August 19

Visualizing the current number of Coronavirus cases and potential hotspots in Syria.

Will oil spark conflict between ‘Qandil’ and the SDF in northeast Syria?

August 17

Will the new oil deal between the SDF and a US-based company create a fissure between Qandil and the SDF?

From Sidra to Rawan: Beirut blast shatters Syrian dreams

August 12

As Mahmoud al-Kanu walks into the basement of the 25-story building where his father works as natour (concierge), he points out the exact place where his family was standing at th...

‘We share the same pain.’ Syrians step up to help survivors of the Beirut explosion

August 07

On Tuesday, August 4, 2020, at 06:07 pm, 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded and shook the Lebanese capital of Beirut, devastating entire neighborhoods.