Syria’s worst drought in decades has wiped out rain-fed crops and diminished yields across the country, devastating farmers ...

The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve ...

Alessandra Bajec is a freelance journalist specializing in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in The New Arab, Al Jazeera English and The New Humanitarian, among other places.

A bloody page in Syria’s history was turned with the overthrow of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024, but real peace remains elusive. The war ended, yes, but its traces are still visible in corners ...

With the war over, Syrians face a new struggle: addressing past harms and building a peaceful future together. With everything at stake, civil peace and transitional justice are both essential and ...

June 25, 2013 Mahmoud Ali al-Khalaf, Secretary General of the Moderate Party, responds to Syria Direct’s two-part series published last week looking at attitudes among Syria’s opposition toward Sunnis ...

Christians who remained in HTS territory were generally allowed to work their farmland, while subject to severe restrictions and limitations on their freedoms.Some land was confiscated. The same was ...

Searching for solutions. On one hand, establishing central dumps is a good solution to reduce arbitrary dumping. This is especially true of northwestern Syria, where more than 4 million people live, ...

More workers needed. In Chaat, about 12 Syrian farmworkers—among the few who remained—planted strawberries earlier this month. The man overseeing the planting, who asked to go by Abu Ali Muhammad, ...

AMMAN — Razan Zaitouneh, Samirah al-Khalil, May Skaf, Fadwa Suleiman. These are the names of women who have become, with many other Syrian women, defining figures and symbols of the Syrian revolution.

Suffering of another kind. In the apartment below Ahmad’s, Ruqayyah, 16, sits in front of the television in the living room. Her legs, wrapped in plaster and gauze, are stretched out on a small table ...