With dwindling aid and delays in registering informally with the UNHCR, tens of thousands of newly arrived Syrian refugees in ...

Iman Sarhan is a field reporter from northwestern Syria. Iron salvage is a common form of survival work in northern Syria, a way of eking life out of destroyed buildings—an all-too-plentiful resource.

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 ...

IDLIB — Nour Raad al-Fares stands over a chunk of concrete, part of what remains of a destroyed building in the northern Hama countryside town of Kafr Zita. Wielding a sledgehammer, he pounds it to ...

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 ...

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 ...

ISTANBUL — Taha al-Ghazi was not at home when the police officers arrived on May 16. After knocking on the door of his Istanbul residence, they initially told his wife they were there to verify the ...

The Zaatari refugee camp’s bustling economy ground to a halt when the Assad regime fell. Local shopkeepers say the value of their businesses has collapsed as residents uncertain about their future in ...

Walid Al Nofal is a journalist with Syria Direct originally from Daraa province in southern Syria. He worked as a field reporter shortly after the Syrian revolution began in 2011 until he moved to ...

PARIS, IDLIB — The land, 60 dunums in al-Judayda, a Christian village in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, was everything to Julian’s family. From season to season, it sustained them, until Hayat ...

PARIS/IDLIB — “Every moment, we dream of returning home. We hope our stay in the camp will be temporary, not permanent,” Mazen al-Wared began. When he first arrived in this displacement camp 11 years ...