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With Assad’s fall last year, internal borders that long separated Syrians from one another faded away. For the first time in ...
A second round of prisoner releases was expected in Aleppo city on Monday, three days after members of the Syrian Democratic ...
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 ...
Dealing with the legacy of Syria’s prisons and security branches as atrocity sites is a collective moral responsibility and part of the fight for memory, “the last bulwark against repeating the past,” ...
SUWAYDA/PARIS — Local military groups took to main streets and central squares in Syria’s southern Suwayda province on Thursday night, raising the Druze flag and firing into the air. The armed ...
AL-MASSAOUDIYE — Sara (a pseudonym) wore a fuzzy rainbow jacket, her blue rubber sandals caked in thick mud as she trudged up the road from the river marking Lebanon’s northern border with Syria on ...
DARAYYA/DOUMA — In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.” “Its green valley extends east as far ...
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 — Flowers fell from a Syrian army helicopter on Saturday, strewn over Damascus alongside scraps of paper with messages of congratulation as residents of the capital marked the 14th ...
PARIS — For days, Daraa activists have been sending out calls to participate in events commemorating the 14th anniversary of the start of the Syrian revolution. But celebration gave way to mourning on ...
JARAMANA/SUWAYDA — Syrians across the country took to the streets this week on the March 18 anniversary of the revolution to protest Israel’s resumption of the war on Gaza—as well as strikes on Syria ...