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تحديات وثوابت في خضم العملية الانتقالية: المرأة السورية ودورها في صناعة السلام

تواجه المرأة السورية اليوم تحديات جسيمة على عدة مستويات، تسعى لتذليلها بغية تعزيز مشاركتها في صناعة السلام بعد النزاع، ...
Syria Direct

In northeastern Syria, artists fight to preserve a cultural renaissance

In northeastern Syria, a growing community of artists—dancers, musicians, filmmakers—fights to preserve the region’s diverse ...
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زيتون درعا في مواجهة الجفاف والمناخ: الإنتاج ينهار إلى أدنى مستوى

تراجع إنتاج الزيتون في محافظة درعا من 31.5 ألف طن في الموسم الماضي إلى 10 آلاف طن في الموسم الحالي، نتيجة التغيرات المناخية ...
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‘Locusts’: Organized looting, destruction of displaced Syrians’ homes by ‘demolition forces’ and regime-affiliated groups

PARIS — In the days after the Syrian regime took control of the southern Idlib countryside village of Kafruma in January 2020, the victors began a new task: looting. Entering the vacant homes of those ...
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‘Unprecedented’: Syria launches first trial over deadly coastal violence

The first trial of hundreds of suspects accused of involvement in killings on Syria’s Alawite-majority coast marks the start of a closely watched and unprecedented accountability process.
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عدي أفنيخر

ناشط في المجتمع المدني السوري، يتمتع بخبرة في العمل الإنساني وفي إعداد التقارير الإعلامية المتعلقة بالشؤون الإنسانية منذ عام ...
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Israel’s occupation of southern Syria persists, nearly a year on

QUNEITRA — It was two o’clock in the morning of September 16 when Muhammad Hussein Arabi, 48, woke to the din of sound bombs near his house in Khan Arnabeh, a small town in Syria’s southwestern ...
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What would Syria joining the US-led coalition mean for the fight against IS?

PARIS — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and United States (US) President Donald Trump are set to meet at the White House on Monday, in a historic visit expected to focus in part on Syria joining the ...
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With olive harvest underway, obstacles remain for Afrin residents

JENDERES — Kneeling beneath the generous branches of a decades-old olive tree, Agid Ahmad, 66, and his wife Fatima Khalil, 58, (pseudonyms) gather its small black fruits from the coarse, red earth.
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Why is Syria seeking rapprochement with Russia despite its unpopularity?

DAMASCUS — In an ornate room in the Kremlin, a meeting unthinkable only a year ago took place last week: Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the man at the helm of Syria’s post-Assad political ...
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Deleting zeros: Will Syria’s new currency lighten the load, or add confusion?

PARIS — Every day, Muhammad Hassan devotes the last three hours of work at his small grocery store in the Reef Dimashq city of Douma to sorting banknotes. He arranges Syrian pounds (SYP) by value and ...
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In Aleppo’s Kurdish neighborhoods, another setback for SDF-Damascus integration

PARIS/QAMISHLI — A ceasefire between Syria’s transitional government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) halted clashes in two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Aleppo city this week, but the brief ...