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Armed robbers stalk northeastern Syria’s country roads. By Salam Ali | October 23, 2024. Countryside roads in SDF-controlled northeastern Syria are a hunting ground for armed robbers targeting civilians and humanitarian workers. Repeated security incidents limit residents’ freedom of movement and cut into organizations’ limited funding.
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SYRIA DIRECT is an independent, nonprofit media and training organization. We are dedicated to telling Syrian stories and mentoring Syrian journalists in accordance with the highest editorial and ethical standards of journalism. Founded in 2013 in Amman, we are now a registered a non-profit organization in Germany financed through grants and projects. Mission:
Displaced Syrian women grapple with loss of real estate ownership
1 day ago · AFRIN — Amira al-Tawil has experienced the bitter loss of her home and property twice. The first time was in early 2012, when she fled her Damascus neighborhood for Idlib with her family after the Syrian regime detained multiple relatives. The second came seven years later, when regime bombardment displaced her from the southern Idlib ...
Syria’s 2022 and the outlook for 2023 - Syria Direct
BEIRUT — In 2022, nearly 12 years into the Syrian uprising-turned-civil war, the country’s humanitarian, political and economic crisis reached new depths. Cash-strapped Damascus is turning the country into a narco-state, a territorially defeated but persistent Islamic State (IS) continues to launch insurgent attacks and international steps …
Why Syria matters as Israel and Iran’s shadow war moves into the …
Apr 24, 2024 · MARSEILLE — Syria has long been a key battleground in Iran and Israel’s shadow war. But since October 7—when Iran-backed Hamas launched its ground incursion into Israel from Gaza—attacks on and from Syrian territory have proliferated in scale and scope. It was in Syria that an Israeli strike sparked this month’s unprecedented ...
Politics - Syria Direct
Nov 4, 2024 · By Kanana Suleiman | October 10, 2024. Mezzeh, an upscale neighborhood long sought-after for safety and better services than other parts of the Syrian capital, has become a repeated target for Israeli bombing due to the presence of figures affiliated with Iran and Hezbollah. 3 10, 2024.
‘Liberated Saydnaya’: Enforced disappearance and extortion in …
Sep 19, 2024 · Only when al-Qassem was released without charge on September 2 was it revealed he was detained in another SNA prison, in the al-Rai area of northern Aleppo. While al-Qassem—who worked as a photographer with Agence France-Presse (AFP)—was freed, fellow journalist Karam Kalia remains forcibly disappeared in an SNA prison in northwestern Syria ...
A sketch of Syria’s 2021 and what to expect in 2022 - Syria Direct
Dec 27, 2021 · BEIRUT – In the year marking a decade of the Syrian uprising-turned-conflict, regional normalization efforts with Damascus gained steam while an economic downward spiral pushed 90% of Syrians into poverty. At the same time, with Bashar Al-Assad controlling around 70% of the country’s territory, the two stalemates in the northeast and the northwest seem to have settled in a fragile stability.
Opinion & Analysis - Syria Direct
Damascus’ Decree 3 of 2023 provides tax exemptions and loans for those whose property was damaged or destroyed by the February 6 earthquake, but does not take into account displaced property owners and rights-holders or areas outside …