Syrian Kurds protest the introduction of Arabic-language instruction in schools, raising fears over Kurdish identity, ...

Assad is gone, but Syria’s revolution is far from over. Journalist and author Anand Gopal tells Syria Direct why the struggle ...

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 ...

As Syria charts a new course and transitional justice efforts proceed, advocates see a unique opportunity to reform the country’s nationality law and address statelessness.

PARIS — Abu Zaki al-Zoubi and a group of clan notables in Syria’s southern Houran region are on the verge of ending a years-long dispute and blood feud between three families in the western Daraa city ...

PARIS — In the eastern Deir e-Zor town of Ghranij, a 25-year vendetta was put to rest last month. Through efforts by a number of clan sheikhs and notables in the Syrian Democratic Forces ...

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 ...

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 ...

RAQQA — Scores of former members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) lined up outside a building in Raqqa city on a crisp, sunny morning last week, waiting to settle their status with ...

MOUNT HERMON FOOTHILLS — From Qatana, a multi-ethnic town in the countryside southwest of Damascus, the road to Mount Hermon—known in Syria as Jabal al-Sheikh— winds upward through a string of five ...

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 ...

Ask an ordinary Syrian on the street what he thinks of September 11, on its 25th anniversary, and the answer may well be: “The Jews did it.” The claim has an obvious emotional and psychological appeal ...