Syria is reconnecting to global financial markets, but ordinary Syrians continue to struggle with soaring living costs. Can ...

Assad is gone, but Syria’s revolution is far from over. Journalist and author Anand Gopal tells Syria Direct why the struggle ...

Syrian Kurds protest the introduction of Arabic-language instruction in schools, raising fears over Kurdish identity, ...

In his great poem “Easter, 1916,” the Irish Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats describes revolution as a “terrible beauty.” The phrase captures the poet’s ambivalence. He saw the revolutionaries as foolish; he ...

As Syria charts a new course and transitional justice efforts proceed, advocates see a unique opportunity to reform the country’s nationality law and address statelessness.

PARIS — In the eastern Deir e-Zor town of Ghranij, a 25-year vendetta was put to rest last month. Through efforts by a number of clan sheikhs and notables in the Syrian Democratic Forces ...

AFRIN — At the start of April, Amina Ali finally went home. The 58-year-old and her husband returned to al-Maabatli, their town in Afrin, a Kurdish-majority region of northwestern Syria, more than ...

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 ...

PARIS — Day by day, Abu Bilal is losing hope that he will ever have the chance to rebuild his home in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, amid a “lack of transparency” from the Syrian government over ...

PARIS — In Suwayda, little remains as it was when residents of the Druze-majority southern province celebrated the end of the Assad regime last December. A year of false starts, bloodshed, shifting ...

PARIS — As Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell on Sunday, the Israeli military immediately launched a large-scale bombing operation, striking Syrian military assets and airbases across the country, ...

IDLIB — Ten kilometers from the northern Idlib city of Maarat Misrin, the road bends sharply, curving around an abyss: the al-Hebat quarry. Few dare approach the edge of the chasm, which plunges 60 ...