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Young Syrians returning from Lebanon to AANES-held northeastern Syria, like those heading for regime areas, face the threat of conscription for “self-defense duty.”. Syria Direct is an independent, nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to telling Syrian stories and training Syrian journalists. Syria’s is a crisis in transition ...
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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:
‘Liberated Saydnaya’: Enforced disappearance and extortion in …
Sep 19, 2024 · Only when al-Qassem was released without charge on September 2 was it revealed he was detained in another SNA prison, in the al-Rai area of northern Aleppo. While al-Qassem—who worked as a photographer with Agence France-Presse (AFP)—was freed, fellow journalist Karam Kalia remains forcibly disappeared in an SNA prison in northwestern Syria ...
‘Worst since the beginning of the 20th century’: What does 2024 …
Dec 28, 2023 · PARIS — With the end of each year since 2011, Syrians have ushered in the new year with dreams of better days to come, only to find themselves facing new crises—especially with the country’s faltering economy. In 2023, the Syrian pound recorded an unprecedented decline, in its worst year to date. Will 2024
‘Resurrection’: HTS returns to southern Syria - Syria Direct
May 27, 2024 · Resurrection in the south. Two months ago, in a city in northwestern Daraa, a small group of armed young men stood in the middle of a street, blocking traffic. They chanted for HTS, claiming to belong to it, and said the group had returned once more to the city, two residents told Syria Direct. Both residents spoke on condition of anonymity and ...
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 ...
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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 …
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 ...
Daraa - Syria Direct
Aug 29, 2024 · Trees have fallen under the axe in Daraa and across Syria since the spring 2011 revolution, cut for wood to sell or use as an alternative to heating and cooking gas during war, siege and economic crises.