As displaced people return to destroyed communities in southern Idlib, local initiatives are emerging as stopgap solutions for basic repairs and services, stepping into some roles that are the ...

SUWAYDA/PARIS — On the morning of May 15, Ghiath (a pseudonym) boarded a bus in Suwayda city to head back to Latakia University, where he is a student. Then the armed men arrived. Members of a local ...

QAMISHLI — At her home in Syria’s northeastern Qamishli city, high school student Sima Ahmed sits down to study and do her homework in Kurdish, her mother tongue and the language that “reflects my ...

HOMS — Around 1:30 AM on April 25, Muhammad al-Waeri and his family were fast asleep at their home in Homs city’s Alawite-majority Karm al-Loz neighborhood when a loud pounding on the door startled ...

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 ...

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 ...

MERSIN — Hussein al-Marandi can feel something changing in Gaziantep. For years, the Turkish city around an hour’s drive from the border with his native Aleppo has been an economic hub, hosting ...

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 ...

بعد سقوط نظام الأسد، اصطدم العديد من النازحين بحجم الدمار، في العديد من محافظات سوريا، كما هو حال ريف إدلب الجنوبي، ما استدعى البحث عن حلول عاجلة، تمثل بعضها في إطلاق مبادرات أهلية ...

بعد عودتهم إلى السويداء بسبب التوترات الطائفية في جامعاتهم، منعت مجموعة مسلحة محلية تتبع لغرفة العمليات المشتركة ذهاب طلبة السويداء إلى جامعاتهم في المحافظات الأخرى، وسط تخوف من استخدام ملف التعليم ...

في السنوات العشر الأخيرة، شهدت اللغة الكردية ازدهاراً تعليمياً وثقافياً، بعد عقود من حرمان الكرد من تعلم لغتهم الأم أو الكتابة بها. وفي ...