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Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure ...
A second round of prisoner releases was expected in Aleppo city on Monday, three days after members of the Syrian Democratic ...
Syrians who lived in areas run by the Turkey-backed opposition Syrian Interim Government (SIG) before Assad fell last year face challenges related to the recognition of their official documents by the ...
ALEPPO — With Assad’s fall last year, internal borders that long separated Syrians from one another faded away. For the first time in years, displaced people could choose to return home. Suddenly, it ...
Dealing with the legacy of Syria’s prisons and security branches as atrocity sites is a collective moral responsibility and part of the fight for memory, “the last bulwark against repeating the past,” ...
PARIS — With the signing of an agreement between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi on March 10, many Syrians breathed a sigh of relief. The ...
Christians in Damascus prepare for the Christmas holiday with a mixture of hope for a new Syria and wariness about the country’s leadership.
SUWAYDA/PARIS — Local military groups took to main streets and central squares in Syria’s southern Suwayda province on Thursday night, raising the Druze flag and firing into the air. The armed ...
DARAYYA/DOUMA — In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.” “Its green valley extends east as far ...