Assad is gone, but Syria’s revolution is far from over. Journalist and author Anand Gopal tells Syria Direct why the struggle ...
Syrian Kurds protest the introduction of Arabic-language instruction in schools, raising fears over Kurdish identity, ...
In his great poem “Easter, 1916,” the Irish Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats describes revolution as a “terrible beauty.” The phrase captures the poet’s ambivalence. He saw the revolutionaries as foolish; he ...
LATAKIA — “I had forgotten where I had even left it,” murmurs Laith (a pseudonym) with a nervous grin, handing over a small laminated card containing his photo and some scant personal details. “It’s ...
6TH OF OCTOBER CITY/CAIRO — Nestled between towering gray buildings overflowing with tiny shops, the “Syrian Passage” is an oasis of calm. A wide alley of cafes and shisha joints surrounded by ...
SOFIA — “I am really sorry for the delay in replying,” Rashid* wrote in a 4am WhatsApp message in July. “I was in detention in Sofia until yesterday. I just got deported.” Rashid, who had been an ...
DAMASCUS — On Sunday, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood announced it held a Shura Council meeting, the second of its kind since the fall of the Assad regime. In the statement, the group applauded the ...
PARIS — In the new Syria, Ahmad al-Hayes’s star is rising. At the beginning of May, after being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, the once-leader of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya ...
NEW YORK — As the sun sets on a Friday evening, preparations for Shabbat are in full swing in South Brooklyn. Local businesses—a modest kosher restaurant, a Levantine pastry shop, a Judaica ...
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 ...
AMMAN: The rebel government of Hay’at Tahrir a-Sham in northwest Syria is positioning itself as the only opposition authority in the region after giving its main political rival—the Syrian Interim ...
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