سوريا دايركت

“بيئة طاردة”: كيف تعيد إسرائيل تشكيل الحياة قرب خط الفصل في جنوب سوريا؟

لا تظهر حتى الآن موجة نزوح جماعية واسعة من قرى جنوب سوريا القريبة من الجولان المحتل، لكن التوغلات والممارسات الإسرائيلية تصنع ...
Syria Direct

Syria’s forgotten villages: Mount Hermon’s Druze between Damascus and the IDF

Caught between a seemingly absent Syrian government and a growing Israeli presence, Mount Hermon’s Druze villages are waiting ...
Syria Direct

White earth: Soil salinization threatens farming in Raqqa’s Euphrates river basin

Soil salinization is a complex and expanding crisis in rural Raqqa, where fields are becoming unusable and farmers have ...
سوريا دايركت

هادي العلي

صحفي سوري يتابع ملف المرحلة الانتقالية في سوريا، بما في ذلك القضايا المتعلقة بالعدالة الانتقالية. وقد سبق له أن أعدّ تقارير حول اللاجئين والحراك الشعبي في لبنان.
Syria Direct

As Atef Najib’s trial proceeds, what legal basis exists for transitional justice?

DAMASCUS — A hush fell over a courtroom in Damascus on Sunday, as Atef Najib—a former high-ranking Syrian security official and cousin of Bashar al-Assad—entered and took a seat in a cage to the right ...
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Suwayda’s students caught up in the struggle with Damascus

PARIS/DAMASCUS — For months, a standoff between the Syrian government and de facto authorities in Suwayda province over the recognition of national exams has left thousands of high school students in ...
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Syrian Jews and allies seek a place in the country’s future, divided over Israel

NEW YORK — As the sun sets on a Friday evening, preparations for Shabbat are in full swing in South Brooklyn. Local businesses—a modest kosher restaurant, a Levantine pastry shop, a Judaica ...
Syria Direct

Reconstruction plan for eastern Damascus neighborhoods alarms residents

PARIS — Day by day, Abu Bilal is losing hope that he will ever have the chance to rebuild his home in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, amid a “lack of transparency” from the Syrian government over ...
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Denied for decades, Syria’s stateless Kurds edge towards recognition

QAMISHLI — Standing outside the municipal stadium in Qamishli, Assem Abdullah Hamou, 51, and his brother joined dozens of other stateless Syrian Kurds holding sheaves of documents on Monday. In their ...
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Red lines and death threats: Freedom of expression wanes in Suwayda

PARIS — Barely recovered from five gunshot wounds and a broken leg suffered during an abduction and attempted assassination by Suwayda’s National Guard, Morhaf al-Shaer fled the southern Syrian ...
Syria Direct

‘A long way to go’: As Syrians commemorate the revolution, has it achieved its goals?

Fifteen years ago, the spark of the Syrian revolution was lit in Daraa province and spread, launching a series of events that would lead to the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024. This year, ...