Relying on his own efforts, with modest equipment and humble costs, Mahmoud Jouha succeeded in cultivating domestic mushroom in the opposition-held region of Afrin, northwest of Aleppo, defying displacement hardships and making good income. Like hundreds of thousands of Syrian displaced,...

Weeks after the long, furious battle with militants from the Islamic State group over a prison in northwestern Syria, the mangled wreckage of a car used by suicide bombers still sat outside its perimeter. Cranes put in place new cement blast walls to close off the entrance. Gaping holes...

Roda Aftan Shlash fled Islamic State militants in eastern Syria with her family five years ago, leaving behind the hardline militants but not the trauma of living under their brutal rule. The 42-year-old mother of four children spent the next two years on the move before settling near the...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its latest report, released today, that it documented at least 143 cases of arbitrary arrests/ detentions in January 2022, including two children, noting that further restrictions on freedom of expression affect even the slightest criticism...