Writing for All4Syria, Walid Bunni urges opposition factions attending the upcoming talks in Astana to resist foreign pressure for short-term gains
Lack of training for women risks putting more than half the population out of work, but why would Syrian society prevent large numbers of its potential human energy from working when it is in dire need of assistance in farming, education, health, and construction?
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
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
Swiss aid delegates confirm plans to open office in the Syrian capital during meeting to discuss increasing cooperation in development
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
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
Sada al-Sham speaks with women who have been abandoned by their husbands after being dealt severe injuries and narrowly escaping death
Russia says specifics about the upcoming meeting are currently unavailable, adding that it remains unclear how long the talks will last
Store owners and sellers in the capital’s marketplaces describe a gloomy scene of overstocked merchandise for a non-existent clientele as the impacts of the war finally take hold of the Damascus tourism industry
Syrian father says he was rounded up and deported back to Daraa along with others after being arrested in the Jordanian capital as part of a wider crackdown on Syrians in the kingdom
Opposition urges international community to end violations and punish perpetrators after 27 breaches by regime forces and their allies were recorded on Sunday alone, according to Coalition monitors
President Assad has said that his mission, according to the constitution and according to the laws, that we have to liberate every inch of the Syrian land. Following is the full context of the statement, as published by SANA
Souriatna explains why Syria’s economy has failed to deliver on any of its major sectors — oil, industry and agriculture — during the whole of 2016, resulting in unprecedented inflation and the erosion of employment
Opposition calls on international community to assume its responsibilities to protect after Syrian government forces purportedly violated the ceasefire by shelling the northeastern countryside of Daraa
The past 12 months has seen the killing of over 50 journalists by different parties to the conflict, but the activity of prominent institutions provides a glimmer of hope for journalism’s future in conflict-ridden Syria
