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Armed robbers stalk northeastern Syria’s country roads. By Salam Ali | October 23, 2024. Countryside roads in SDF-controlled northeastern Syria are a hunting ground for armed robbers targeting civilians and humanitarian workers. Repeated security incidents limit residents’ freedom of movement and cut into organizations’ limited funding.
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SYRIA DIRECT is an independent, nonprofit media and training organization. We are dedicated to telling Syrian stories and mentoring Syrian journalists in accordance with the highest editorial and ethical standards of journalism. Founded in 2013 in Amman, we are now a registered a non-profit organization in Germany financed through grants and projects. Mission:
Syria’s 2022 and the outlook for 2023 - Syria Direct
BEIRUT — In 2022, nearly 12 years into the Syrian uprising-turned-civil war, the country’s humanitarian, political and economic crisis reached new depths. Cash-strapped Damascus is turning the country into a narco-state, a territorially defeated but persistent Islamic State (IS) continues to launch insurgent attacks and international steps …
Politics - Syria Direct
Oct 10, 2024 · By Kanana Suleiman | October 10, 2024. Mezzeh, an upscale neighborhood long sought-after for safety and better services than other parts of the Syrian capital, has become a repeated target for Israeli bombing due to the presence of figures affiliated with Iran and Hezbollah. 3 10, 2024.
Empty promises and unrelenting economic crisis: Syrians leave …
Dec 28, 2022 · PARIS — Syrians are greeting the new year, 2023, while in the grips of an economic crisis worse than ever before. Across the country’s four areas of influence—held by the Syrian regime, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Syrian National Army (SNA) in the northwest and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeast—Syrians face the worsening crisis and its repercussions: the rising ...
Opinion & Analysis - Syria Direct
Damascus’ Decree 3 of 2023 provides tax exemptions and loans for those whose property was damaged or destroyed by the February 6 earthquake, but does not take into account displaced property owners and rights-holders or areas outside …
Renewed talk of US withdrawal rattles Syrians in the northeast
Feb 15, 2024 · Fears of a US withdrawal from northeastern Syria were renewed in late January, after Al-Monitor and Foreign Policy reported that Washington was considering withdrawing its troops from Syria. While the White House denied reports it intends to withdraw, that has not dispelled al-Zaim’s fears. Washington “betrayed us before,” he said, and ...
Syria online: Digital archives reconnect a generation scattered by war
Aug 20, 2023 · AMMAN, ERBIL — Rainbow fonts, thick mustaches, 1980s-style sunglasses, vibrant collages and fading portraits of beautiful divas form an eclectic gallery of cassette-tape illustrations on the website of the Syrian Cassette Archives, an online platform dedicated to preserving Syrian cassettes produced since the 1970s.. The archive’s cassettes contain a unique collection of hits, children’s ...
Syrians lose WFP lifeline as US slashes funding - Syria Direct
Jan 16, 2024 · MARSEILLE — Millions of Syrians lost a lifeline this month, after the World Food Program (WFP) suspended all in-kind food assistance across Syria due to an unprecedented budget shortfall, owing in large part to drastic cuts in United States government funding, senior humanitarian sources told Syria Direct. The United States Agency for International Aid (USAID), through its Bureau of ...