Alessandra Bajec is a freelance journalist specializing in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in The New Arab, Al Jazeera English and The New Humanitarian, among other places.

Rain-fed wheat in Daraa: Zero production In the western Daraa countryside, Mahmoud Muhammad al-Sweidani planted his 250 dunams of land with irrigated wheat and barley, also avoiding planting chickpeas ...

Many houses have been destroyed, looted or confiscated by Turkish-backed armed groups in areas they seized during Operation Peace Spring. Similar acts have been carried out with impunity by a range of ...

The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve ...

PARIS, IDLIB — The land, 60 dunums in al-Judayda, a Christian village in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, was everything to Julian’s family. From season to season, it sustained them, until Hayat ...

PARIS — The United States-led international coalition appointed Captain Muhammad Farid al-Qassem as the new commander of the coalition-backed opposition Maghawir al-Thawra faction operating in ...

AMMAN — Razan Zaitouneh, Samirah al-Khalil, May Skaf, Fadwa Suleiman. These are the names of women who have become, with many other Syrian women, defining figures and symbols of the Syrian revolution.

PARIS — Twelve years after the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, official opposition institutions remain dependent, not only politically and militarily, but in the provision of services. The Syrian ...

PARIS — In the latest merger between factions in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), in mid-April Hayat Thaeroon for Liberation—a months-old formation—announced that the Failaq al-Rahman ...

ATHENS — Ten days after a massive earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria in early February, a 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in the bathrooms of a shelter in northwestern Syria hosting ...

The 1962 census deprived an estimated 120,000 Syrian Kurds of citizenship and associated basic rights: Stateless Kurds could no longer own property or businesses, travel, work in the public sector or ...

AMMAN — “I used to go swimming on the banks of the Euphrates river in my childhood with my father. At the age of seven, I would watch the fishermen and ask them about the type of fish they caught and ...