Al-Jumhuriya

18 June 2020

Two views of Caesar

So powerful are Washington’s new sanctions on Syria that even some opponents of Assad are unsure about them. Our own Syrian reporters have a range of views, two of which are presented head-to-head in this article.

Al-Jumhuriya

19 May 2020

Covid-19 in Idlib: The doomsday scenario

Over 11,000 could die in just the first eight weeks of a Covid-19 outbreak in northwest Syria, finds an alarming new study by Syrian and international health experts.

Al-Jumhuriya

17 October 2019

An unpeaceful week in Syria

Scores killed; hundreds of thousands displaced; a politician summarily executed; and US forces replaced by Assad's: Al-Jumhuriya assesses the first week of Turkey's "Operation Peace Spring" in northern Syria.

Mustafa Hazouri

30 September 2019

When Aleppo's widows speak

For each husband killed in Aleppo, there is a widow struggling to provide for her surviving family. Our writer heard dozens of these women’s stories first-hand; an experience that sent him into an "abyss" of drugs and mental disturbance.