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.

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

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 ...

AKKAR — Two families share a two-bedroom home in Bqerzla, a village in Lebanon’s northern Akkar governorate near the border with Syria. There is no work, so they spend many days crowded around a ...

HASAKAH/PARIS — A round of negotiations set to get underway on Friday between Syria’s transitional government and a delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) was ...

MERSIN — Hussein al-Marandi can feel something changing in Gaziantep. For years, the Turkish city around an hour’s drive from the border with his native Aleppo has been an economic hub, hosting ...

Between January and the end of April, extrajudicial killings of at least 361 civilians took place in Homs and Hama provinces, SNHR told Syria Direct. Most took place in areas inhabited by Alawites, ...

PARIS — Local forces affiliated with the Damascus government’s General Security Directorate were killed and injured in an ambush in western Suwayda on Tuesday, in the latest outburst of violence as a ...

PARIS — Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure in the southern province or the primary representative of his ...

Syria bears a heavy legacy of institutional violence, embodied by the security branches and prisons spread across the country that for many years were the stage of the most horrific crimes against ...

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 ...

DAMASCUS/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the ...