Earlier this month, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that its new Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) had completed its first report, concluding that chemical weapons were used by the Bashar al-Assad regime on three occasions in the Syrian town of al-Lataminah, northwest of Hama, in March 2017. Two of the three attacks—those on 24 and 30 March—involved the nerve agent…

Rather than developing south Syria economically, having recaptured it militarily, the Assad regime has reverted to the same old neglect and misgovernance that pushed the region to revolt in the first place.

The time is 10pm. Darkness enshrouds me as I write these words, after the last candle ran out half an hour ago. Electricity outages mean a lack of Internet, the information artery connecting me to the virtual world outside. I’m cut off from my physical surroundings, forbidden to leave my house by the curfew imposed after 6pm each day; a curfew that came after persistent…

With the decline in international NGO activity in Syria over the past two years, it has become necessary for local civil and youth initiatives to fill the gap. These improvised, often volunteer-based groups are now essential, indeed indispensable, especially when it comes to emergency responses requiring rapid action. Funded by crowdfunding campaigns and donations, these groups have chiefly been preoccupied with the new waves of…

After a high blood pressure diagnosis, Al-Jumhuriya’s English editor did the unthinkable: he stopped drinking coffee. What followed was weeks of physical, mental, even spiritual torment.

“The northwest [of Syria] is not a country,” said a spokesman for the World Health Organization’s office in southern Turkey, in remarks to the New York Times intended to justify why the organization has so far only distributed Covid-19 test kits to parts of Syria controlled by the Assad regime. More than a month has passed since these kits were supplied to the ministry of…

Now in its tenth year, Syria’s war has seen an entire generation of reporters come and go, exposing its crimes in minute detail to a world that only ever grows more indifferent.

On Monday, the World Health Organization’s emergency director for the Middle East, Dr. Rick Brennan, declared the organization would begin testing for COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus, in opposition-held northwestern Syria later this week. At least half of the medical facilities in Idlib Province have been bombed out of service in recent months by Assad regime and Russian aircraft. At the time of writing, none…

Millions of Syrian children have lived their entire lives in war. At The Wisdom House, a kindergarten displaced along with its staff and pupils from Idlib to Aleppo, Moumena and her colleagues attempt the colossal task of providing for these children’s educational and emotional needs.

To comment on the recent events at the Greek-Turkish border requires conjuring sentiments that go beyond mere, but necessary, disgust. A new low has been found in the means, political and rhetorical, of handling the Syrian refugee tragedy by Turkey and the European Union.  In the last few days, thousands of Syrians gathered in the main squares and streets of Istanbul seeking transport to the…