As transitional justice remains out of reach, hundreds of extrajudicial killings—predominantly of Alawites—have taken place ...

At the start of April, Amina Ali finally went home. The 58-year-old and her husband returned to al-Maabatli, their town in ...

Umm Nidal sits outside her tent in northern Idlib, laundering a large pile of clothes by hand. The water in the large bucket beside her is precious, the fruit of a difficult journey to a well 200 ...

PARIS — Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure in the southern province or the primary representative of his ...

PARIS — Coinciding with a sharp rise in sectarian incitement and hate speech, Druze-majority areas of Syria endured a wave of violence this week, including a major escalation in communities just ...

Only 3,106 Syrian refugees out of 717,000 registered with the UN in Jordan have returned to Syria since Assad fell, as crossing the border is a one-way trip to a country that is not yet stable.

Walid Al Nofal is a journalist with Syria Direct originally from Daraa province in southern Syria. He worked as a field reporter shortly after the Syrian revolution began in 2011 until he moved to ...

REEF DIMASHQ/PARIS — Eid al-Fitr was bittersweet this year for Samah Abdullah, 35, and her family in the Reef Dimashq city of Douma. The daily struggle to make ends meet muddied the “joy of coming ...

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 ...

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 ...