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.

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 ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa returned to the UN General Assembly in New York last week, with his country having undergone a dramatic diplomatic rehabilitation since his first visit to the international forum last ...

DEIR E-ZOR — The Syrian Petroleum Company’s report struck an optimistic note: “From rubble to a functioning production line” was how engineers at the al-Tabiyah gas plant, better known as “Conoco”, ...

MAARAT AL-NUMAN — A spike in fuel prices has triggered days of mass protests across eight of Syria’s provinces, including Idlib, the historic stronghold of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in northwestern ...

Kamal is a Middle East military historian and former RUSI Fellow. He is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Statecraft and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He lectures at ...

Hundreds of red-and-white fuel tankers hurtle down the highway between Tartous and Homs, the giant trucks weaving in and out of traffic with a concerning lack of control. The drivers sit hunched in ...

When President Emmanuel Macron returned 23 Syrian artifacts in July, it was more than a diplomatic gesture. It was a recognition that antiquities had become symbols of Syria’s reconstruction and of ...

PARIS — From the rooftop of a friend’s house in the Quneitra village of Jubata al-Khashab, Abu Saddam watches his land from afar. For two years, he has not been able to approach the 10 dunums he ...

DAMASCUS — Dana Hamila, 38, spends her days at home in Germany making soap and selling it online. Born and raised in Syria, she left in 2017 with her then-husband, who was wanted by the former regime ...

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 ...