Syria’s southern Daraa province has seen serious violations and abuses by new general security personnel—including killings, ...

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.

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

Rain-fed wheat in Daraa: Zero production In the western Daraa countryside, Mahmoud Muhammad al-Sweidani planted his 250 dunams of land with irrigated wheat and barley, also avoiding planting chickpeas ...

HASAKAH/PARIS — A round of negotiations set to get underway on Friday between Syria’s transitional government and a delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) was ...

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 ...

Thousands cross into Lebanon By around 9:30 in the morning on March 12, men, women, and children began to line up on the Syrian side of the Nahr al-Kabir River near the Tal al-Bireh village, preparing ...

PARIS — Syria’s new government reached a landmark agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday to integrate “all civilian and military institutions” in the country’s northeast into the ...

DAMASCUS/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the ...

DAMASCUS — Syria’s long-awaited national dialogue conference wrapped up on Tuesday, just two days after it was announced. Around 600 delegates from across Syria gathered at the Presidential Palace in ...

DARAA/PARIS — “Around this time, our cars would usually be leaving the Yarmouk Valley brimming with zucchini, beans and tomatoes. This year, the Israeli occupation has stopped us, destroying our ...

ERBIL — Days before the new Damascus government’s security forces entered Afrin, a Kurdish-majority Afrin area of the Aleppo countryside, “to strengthen security” on February 7, 43-year-old Rami ...