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Syria Direct
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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
In October alone, Syria Direct tracked the deaths of 15 people, most of them civilians, in attacks by unidentified gunmen, revenge killings and accidental shootings across Daraa.
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 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
🧵 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
Some key water sources are in sharp decline. At the al-Ashaari water pumping station—a state-run facility that draws from a group of natural springs—the flow has fallen by 85% over 26 years of operation. It dropped by more than half between June and September alone.
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🧵 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
🧵 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
🧵 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
For more than a decade, Bushra and Nidal built a life and raised eight children in Amman, Jordan. Now, high costs of living and aid cuts are pushing them to return to Syria—despite the hardships waiting on the other side of the border.

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August 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🧵 While Damascus hails the emptying of Assad regime prisons, detainees arrested for opposing Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) continue to languish in Idlib prisons. Others have disappeared.

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August 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🧵 In Tremseh, an idyllic village in northern Hama with a bloody past, thousands of displaced residents have found their way home. Reunited with old friends, they are working to rebuild a community and heal old scars.

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August 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🧵 Activists in Suwayda who were once open to the Damascus government weigh in on how their views have changed following a wave of sectarian violence—and whether any path forward remains.

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July 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM