All wars are brutal, but Syria descended into uncommon depths. Barrel bombs dropped from planes into civilian neighbourhoods, ...

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

Court rulings concern violence and killings during March 2025 uprising by pro-Assad forces and retaliatory attacks.

The idea that the Middle East is becoming more liberal may sound counterintuitive. Nearly 50 years ago, a revolution in Iran dismantled the country’s secular order and ushered in an absolutist ...

Tomorrow, October 15, will mark the 25th anniversary of The Syria Report. On that day, in 2001, we published our first ...

The remains of ancient villages in Idlib countryside provide a glimpse into rural life in northwestern Syria nearly 2,000 ...

Thousands of residents of Syria’s Hasakah province rallied after Friday prayers to demand state authority across the province and the release of detainees and people forcibly disappeared in prisons ...

Born in 1961 in Raqqa, Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer, essayist, and political dissident. Arrested in 1980 due to his ...

Syria reopened the historic Great Umayyad Mosque in the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday, 13 years after it was put out of ...

Syrian authorities are working to restore cultural landmarks and ancient sites that had been damaged or destroyed during the ...

The court also sentenced Assad-era official Atif Najib to death for "crimes against humanity" committed when he was head of political security in Daraa province, the cradle of the country's 2011 ...

On the night of September 17, Damascus witnessed something it had not seen in fifteen years. Assala Nasri, the Syrian-born superstar who had lived in exile since she bravely threw her support ...