As Turkish-linked commanders with dubious human rights records are commissioned as officers and appointed to top military ...

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

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.

Rain-fed wheat in Daraa: Zero production In the western Daraa countryside, Mahmoud Muhammad al-Sweidani planted his 250 dunams of land with irrigated wheat and barley, also avoiding planting chickpeas ...

The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve justice for victims and promote long-term stability, human rights advocate ...

PARIS — Twelve years after the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, official opposition institutions remain dependent, not only politically and militarily, but in the provision of services. The Syrian ...

Thousands cross into Lebanon By around 9:30 in the morning on March 12, men, women, and children began to line up on the Syrian side of the Nahr al-Kabir River near the Tal al-Bireh village, preparing ...

Tens of thousands of the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon have settled in the country’s 12 official Palestinian refugee camps, which were set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for ...

PARIS, IDLIB — The land, 60 dunums in al-Judayda, a Christian village in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, was everything to Julian’s family. From season to season, it sustained them, until Hayat ...

PARIS — The case against a controversial commander—Muhammad al-Jassim, also known as Abu Amsha—in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) accused of human rights violations and abuses appears to ...

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 ...