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 ...

DEIR E-ZOR — The Syrian Petroleum Company’s report struck an optimistic note: “From rubble to a functioning production line” was how engineers at the al-Tabiyah gas plant, better known as “Conoco”, ...