Women wishing to join the opposition police in the areas liberated during Operation Euphrates Shield will be offered a second training course early December in the  city of al-Bab , Mahmoud Ahmed, a police officer at al-Bab police station, told Al-Monitor. The...

In al-Houla, in Syria's northern Homs province, many residents are waiting for the cold winter months with trepidation. Living in one of the government- besieged areas  in the country, Syrians say that there is a lack of diesel and most of the trees have been used for firewood....

Media activists opposed to the Syrian government have documented much of the worst of the war in Syria. However, as President Bashar al-Assad regains control of opposition-held territory, these civilian journalists fear they will have no place in Syria’s future. “It’s not like I...

Trauma surgeon Shazeer Majeed has worked for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Yemen, South Sudan and Iraq. He is now working in northern Syria, a region gripped by instability, and shares his day-to-day reality of trying to keep victims of war alive. "We usually think of the...