A six-month window for refugees in Turkey to visit Syria before committing to return is set to close on July 1. In Kilis, a ...

Alessandra Bajec is a freelance journalist specializing in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in The New Arab, Al Jazeera English and The New Humanitarian, among other places.

The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve ...

Syria’s worst drought in decades has wiped out rain-fed crops and diminished yields across the country, devastating farmers ...

HASAKAH/PARIS — A round of negotiations set to get underway on Friday between Syria’s transitional government and a delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) was ...

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 ...

University students who returned to Druze-majority Suwayda during recent sectarian tensions on their campuses were stopped by a local armed group as they tried to go back to school last week. Some ...

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 ...

It took years for Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri to move from outward support for the Assad regime to cautious criticism and finally open opposition. With the new authorities in ...

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 ...

The Jabal Mohsen neighborhood is home to the majority of Lebanon’s roughly 150,000 Alawites, Asi said. Some Lebanese Alawites also live in the Akkar governorate, in villages along the border, while ...