Ain al-Medina speaks to former female inmates about the social rejection and suffering they face after being released from prison, as many return to collapsed relationships as well as exclusion from families and friendship circles
Russian FM meets with counterpart Abdrakhmanov to discuss preparations for the upcoming Syrian peace talks to be held in the Kazakh capital next week
Alaa Ibrahim says reconciliation agreement will take place in the Eastern Ghouta area outside the capital Damascus within the next few days
Opposition members reportedly met with Trump’s Middle East adviser in November in an effort to secure support for a post-Assad transition
Iqtissad speaks with local traders and officials about how the quiet border town near Turkey blossomed into one of the Syrian opposition’s key trading hubs in the area
Deputy head of the Syrian Interim Government expresses hope that a Trump presidency will contribute to Turkey’s efforts to ensure a successful ceasefire in Syria
Obama’s two terms and the lie of the bloody Arab Spring made us feel that George W. Bush was a dove of peace. Bush did not, in practice, destroy anywhere but Iraq, given that Afghanistan was already destroyed, whereas Obama went ceaselessly from Syria to Libya and Yemen.
Foreign Ministry urges UN to end attacks by Israel after strikes targeted a major military airport outside of the capital late last week
Walid Bunni asks whether the US president-elect will continue the Obama administration’s stance in denying the goals and freedoms of the region’s people for the past eight years
Swiss aid delegates confirm plans to open office in the Syrian capital during meeting to discuss increasing cooperation in development
Eight people killed in Russian attacks which targeted apartment complex in Babka, while separate Syrian and US-led coalition strikes killed scores of Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Idleb province
Children at risk of being registered as illegitimate after Assad regime refuses to acknowledge the validity of marriage contracts administered by opposition courts in the eastern parts of Aleppo
Opposition in Barada valley area reject state media’s claims of rebel agreement with Assad regime to hand over their weapons, adding that repair teams have not entered to fix the damaged water source
Media sources report strikes targeted Al-Bab city and a number of other towns, killing nine people and injuring scores more
Sources claim head of Syria’s air force ordered warplanes to strike capital’s main water supply, which provides drinking water and sanitation to millions of Damascus residents
Founder and manager of the “Crossing to the Future Center” speaks with Ain al-Medina on the organization’s programs which aim to lift children out of depression and despair and encourage contributions to a future of optimism
What Moscow is trying to achieve with the political settlement depends to a large extent on the Turkish and Iranian positions, and on the possibility of reaching clear agreements between these actors amid independent efforts to direct their battles in ways which achieve only their interests
Opposition reports that despite truce hundreds of people have been killed across Syria by the Assad regime and its allies since deal went into effect on December 29
Video published by ISIS media affiliate shows children as young as three executing men accused of spying for Kurdish forces in the eastern Deir-ez-Zor province
Opposition members claim ongoing violations by regime and allied Iranian militias in the Damascus countryside is proof the regime does not want the truce deal to succeed
