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.

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

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

With the war over, Syrians face a new struggle: addressing past harms and building a peaceful future together. With ...

Enforced disappearance is among the most widespread and devastating crimes in Syria. But the lived reality for the loved ones of the missing is more complicated than the strict definition of the term, ...

Christians who remained in HTS territory were generally allowed to work their farmland, while subject to severe restrictions and limitations on their freedoms.Some land was confiscated. The same was ...

BEIRUT — Residents of Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in west Beirut, bustle down its narrow streets, dodging mopeds zooming past. Street vendors and shopkeepers hawk their wares as the smell of ...

QAMISHLI — Wrapped in a colorful veil, Ghalia bustles about the courtyard of her house in the village of Himo, on the outskirts of the city of Qamishli in northern Syria, holding a near-empty bucket ...

Naser al-Hariri, the then-President of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) (center, in brown suit) and the President of the Syrian Interim Government (SIG) (center, with red tie) inaugurate the local ...

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 ...

BEIRUT – A police raid turned Teim’s life upside down. In 2019, Lebanese security officials raided his house “by mistake” the Syrian refugee said. “I was not the one they were looking for, but they ...