June witnessed a sharp increase in arrests by regime forces in the southern province of Daraa and a continuation of kidnappings and assassinations, according to the Horan Free League . In its monthly report, the League recorded the killing of 38 people in Daraa, including two women and a...

The world breathed a collective sigh of relief in March 2019 when Daesh, the extremist group that had brought terror to vast swathes of the region since 2014, was finally defeated in its last territorial holdout of Baghouz, eastern Syria. The battle for Daesh’s final enclave marked the end...

In her small apartment in opposition-held Idlib in northwest Syria, Umm Mohammed is depressed and lethargic. But when her phone rings or someone knocks on the door she becomes suddenly alert. Maybe, finally, her husband has come back. In 2013, Syrian soldiers broke into the couple’s home...

 A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group. Her parents immediately feared the worst — that she had been persuaded to join the group and was taken to one of its training camps. The girl,...