Syria Direct

Syria is rising, al-Sharaa tells UN—but challenges remain at home

Last year I mentioned that Syria has returned. Today, I say that Syria is rising.” Ahmed al-Sharaa returned to the UN with ...
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Bad gas: Trouble at Syria’s al-Tabiyah plant leaves a bad smell

Syria is racing to restore gas production at al-Tabiya before winter, but technical problems, infrastructure constraints and ...
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Fuel Anger Erupts in the Government’s Idlib Heartland

Fuel price hikes have sparked widespread protests across Syria, with anger reaching Idlib’s Maarat al-Numan, where residents ...
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Fared Al Mahlool

Fareed is a freelance journalist, researcher and photojournalist. Fuel price hikes have sparked widespread protests across Syria, with anger reaching Idlib’s Maarat al-Numan, where residents say ...
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The road to Mecca: Soldiers, spies and the new Syria-Pakistan relationship

Soldiers, pilots and spies built the Syria-Pakistan relationship long before today’s diplomatic rapprochement. Now those old ...
سوريا دايركت

النفط يتدفق والوقود ينفد: مفارقة تحوّل سوريا إلى ممر جديد للطاقة

تحوّل ناقلات النفط العراقية سوريا إلى ممر حيوي للطاقة، لكن فيما تتدفق الصادرات عبر بانياس، يواجه السوريون نقصاً في الوقود ...
سوريا دايركت

سيان ورد

تجسد سوريا حالياً ما يمكن وصفه بأنه أزمة تمر بمرحلة انتقالية، وليس أزمة في حالة تراجع. ودعم التقارير الأصيلة عن سوريا ...
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Oil flows, fuel runs dry: Syria’s paradox as a new energy corridor

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has transformed Syria into a key transit route for Iraqi oil bound for Europe. Since April, some 15 million barrels have been exported through the country.Yet Syria ...
سوريا دايركت

سوريا على طول

تجسد سوريا حالياً ما يمكن وصفه بأنه أزمة تمر بمرحلة انتقالية، وليس أزمة في حالة تراجع. ودعم التقارير الأصيلة عن سوريا والسوريين من خلال التبرع لـ”سوريا على طول”، يسمح لفريقنا من الصحافيين السوريين ...
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Ties of blood: The afterlife of Syria’s jihadist networks from Aleppo to Berlin

German authorities now believe that Abdul Ballout, the 21-year-old who rammed a truck into a Pride parade in Berlin, killing one person and injuring 29, may not have been an Islamic State ...
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Syria’s wells run dry, old grievances run deep

MNEEN/AL-TAL — Last month, hundreds of residents of the rural town of Mneen, outside Damascus, took to the streets to protest a government project to construct a well they say would divert water ...
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Outside the plan: Urban growth outpaces roads and services in Daraa

PARIS — Two kilometers outside Jassim, a city in Syria’s southern Daraa province, Muhammad Abu Qassem is building a small home for his family on a plot of farmland inherited from his father. He began ...