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Independent media and training organization producing in-depth, investigative reporting on Syria by our team of Syrian and international journalists.

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🧵 More than 11 months on, Israel’s occupation of parts of Syria’s southwestern Quneitra province seemingly has no end in sight.

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November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🧵 As Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa visits the White House, one of the topics on the table is the possibility of Syria joining the US-led international coalition against IS. What would that mean?

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November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🧵 More than a month into the academic year in northeastern Syria, students enrolled in a number of schools remain locked out of their classrooms as a years-long struggle continues over what and how students learn in areas held by the SDF.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🧵 The Trump administration’s abrupt termination of Syrians’ Temporary Protected Status has left thousands scrambling for solutions before a November 21 deadline to self-deport or become undocumented.

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November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🧵 When the regime fell last December, Abu Muhammad’s fight was over. He laid down his gun and went back to farming in Syria’s southern Daraa province. But the former fighter has not found peace of mind: friends are being killed, and he fears he may be next.
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nearly 11 months since the fall of the regime, simmering insecurity and uncontrolled weapons continue to destabilize communities and claim lives in Syria’s southern Daraa province.

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In post-regime Daraa, insecurity overshadows the state
Nearly 11 months since the fall of the regime, simmering insecurity and uncontrolled weapons continue to destabilize communities and claim lives in Syria’s southern Daraa province.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Diminished by drought, the olive harvest is underway in Syria’s Kurdish-majority Afrin. Residents report fewer violations than in years past, but remain wary of the new authorities.

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With olive harvest underway, obstacles remain for Afrin residents
Diminished by drought, the olive harvest is underway in Syria’s Kurdish-majority Afrin. Residents report fewer violations than in years past, but remain wary of the new authorities.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🧵 Why is Damascus pursuing a rapprochement with Moscow despite its unpopularity, and how might it strike a balance between Syrian public opinion and strategic interests?

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October 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🧵 As the Syrian government prepares to issue new banknotes and cut zeros from the country’s depreciated currency, everyday Syrians care most about easier everyday transactions.

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October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🧵 As Syria stares down drought and a changing climate, farmers and officials in agriculture-dependent Daraa province grapple with how to adapt.

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October 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🧵 Clashes last week between government forces and the SDF in Aleppo city’s Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods marked the latest setback in fitful integration efforts between the two sides.

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October 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A ceasefire halted clashes between Syrian government forces and the SDF in two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Aleppo city this week, but the violence highlighted how far the two sides are from implementing stalled integration agreements.

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In Aleppo’s Kurdish neighborhoods, another setback for SDF-Damascus integration
A ceasefire halted clashes between Syrian government forces and the SDF in two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Aleppo city this week, but the outburst of violence highlighted how far the two sides a...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
🧵 Former regime soldiers say the demobilization process launched when Assad fell has stalled, leaving many in hiding and without civilian IDs—only expired “settlement cards” they fear put a target on their backs.

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October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As Syria holds its first post-Assad parliamentary elections, some express support for the indirect electoral process, while others criticize its lack of transparency.

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October 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
🧵 Salamiya, a Hama province city home to most of Syria’s Ismaili minority, has been a post-Assad “success story.” Community leaders and analysts emphasize the importance of dialogue and inclusive governance in ensuring communal harmony.

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October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🧵 Bulgarian authorities are pressuring and coercing Syrian asylum seekers to return home, part of a wider European shift that began before the fall of the Assad regime last December, but has accelerated since.

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September 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🧵 Historic drought, degraded infrastructure and unregulated well drilling drain Daraa’s water as authorities struggle to respond to the country’s worst water crisis in decades.

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September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
As Syria’s first head of state to address the UN in nearly 60 years, Ahmad al-Sharaa promised a new chapter despite a host of challenges facing his divided country's political transition.

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Speaking at the UN, Ahmad al-Sharaa tells an unfinished story
As Syria’s first head of state to address the UN in nearly 60 years, Ahmad al-Sharaa promised a new chapter despite a host of challenges facing his divided country's political transition.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🧵 A violent eviction raid on the Alawite slum of al-Somoriyeh in late August was part of a deeper story: a longstanding property dispute with the neighboring Sunni town of Moadamiyat al-Sham, whose residents were expropriated under Hafez al-Assad.

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September 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Caught between the Suwayda crisis to the east and Israeli incursions to the west, Daraa grapples with new security, economic and social challenges.

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Daraa caught between Suwayda crisis and Israeli threats
Caught between the Suwayda crisis to the east and Israeli incursions to the west, Daraa grapples with new security, economic and social challenges.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🧵 Syrian and Lebanese officials met on Monday amid rising calls for the repatriation of more than 2,000 Syrians detained in overcrowded Lebanese prisons that have seen around 40 deaths in the past two years.

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September 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Syria Direct joins with more than 250 media outlets across the world to condemn the Israeli army's killings of journalists in Gaza. We also call on the Israeli authorities to allow independent access for the international press in the Gaza Strip.
September 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🧵 Some Syrians returning from Jordan to Daraa use caravans smuggled out of Zaatari camp as temporary shelters while they work to rebuild their destroyed homes.

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August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🧵 After years in exile, organic farmers Bilal and Assia Abu Saleh returned home to a looted house and parched land that will be a challenge to cultivate. Yet they have a clear goal: to rebuild Syria for their children and lead it toward food sovereignty.

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August 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🧵 Thousands of refugees are packing up their lives and returning from Jordan’s Zaatari camp to Syria—a country that some have never known.

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August 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM