Syria Direct

From negotiation to escalation: Aleppo tests the limits of Damascus-SDF relations

This week’s escalation in Aleppo city comes amid a deepening political crisis between Damascus and the SDF, particularly ...
Syria Direct

‘There is no future for us in Iraq either’: Statelessness plagues Syrian Kurdish refugees

DOHUK — Sitting in a small living room carefully decorated in hues of gold and brown, Wane Musa Khalif carefully clings to a single sheet of paper. Delicately, she flattens the creased and worn ...
Syria Direct

Syrian organizations race to respond as international aid actors paralyzed post-Assad

MARSEILLE — As opposition forces swept into one Syrian city after another over the span of less than two weeks, ultimately toppling the Assad regime, prices soared and economic activity ground to a ...
Syria Direct

In Syria’s ‘barrel bomb capital’ Darayya, housing crisis stalls return

DARAYYA — Ghida Matar, 32, knew Darayya was mostly destroyed before she returned from Lebanon on December 31, weeks after the Assad regime fell. Still, what she found in her hometown just south of ...
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من التفاوض إلى التصعيد: حلب تختبر حدود العلاقة بين دمشق و”قسد”

جاء التصعيد الأخير في مدينة حلب في ظل أزمة سياسية متفاقمة بين دمشق و"قسد"، لاسيما بعد تعثر الجولة الأخيرة من المفاوضات بين ...
سوريا دايركت

تسوية مالية تعيد محمد حمشو الواجهة الاقتصادية للأسد إلى المشهد

فجرت التسوية الاقتصادية التي أبرمها رجل الأعمال محمد حمشو مع الحكومة السورية الجديدة جدلاً واسعاً في الشارع السوري، نظراً ...
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كشف الرفات في الأنقاض: نحو إدماج حقوق المفقودين في سياسات إعمار سوريا

مع استمرار عمليات إزالة الأنقاض وتدويرها في أنحاء سوريا، والإعلان عن مشاريع ضخمة لإعادة تدويرها في البناء، تبرز الحاجة الملحة ...
Syria Direct

HTS looks to Idlib’s Christians and Druze to whitewash violations (map)

PARIS, IDLIB — The land, 60 dunums in al-Judayda, a Christian village in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, was everything to Julian’s family. From season to season, it sustained them, until Hayat ...
Syria Direct

Turkey in Syria: Temporary necessity turned permanent presence?

PARIS — In the new Syria, Ahmad al-Hayes’s star is rising. At the beginning of May, after being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, the once-leader of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya ...
Syria Direct

Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri’s journey: From obedience to opposition?

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 ...
Syria Direct

‘Zero season’: Syrian farmers face worst drought in decades

DARAA/HASAKAH/PARIS — “I won’t plant a single dunam next year—it’s a losing business,” farmer Farhad Ahmad Sinjar said. For the past two years, he has watched his land produce less and less, parched ...
Syria Direct

As tensions run high, will Suwayda’s security agreement hold?

PARIS — Local forces affiliated with the Damascus government’s General Security Directorate were killed and injured in an ambush in western Suwayda on Tuesday, in the latest outburst of violence as a ...