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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,” ...
Elation at the hope of returning home after Assad fell turned to shock for displaced Homs residents who found massive destruction and nonexistent services in areas they fled. Many turned back to ...
Syria bears a heavy legacy of institutional violence, embodied by the security branches and prisons spread across the country ...
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/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the ...
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 ...