To Damascus residents, the name Somariya is associated with Hafez al-Assad’s brother, Rifaat al-Assad. Today its Alawi inhabitants are forcibly displaced, as an armed faction reclaimed the land stolen back...

Interview with Samar Yazbek, novelist and activist

Syrian civil society is constantly denouncing sectarian-based killings and kidnappings, primarily targeting members of the Alawite community in the cities and rural areas of Homs, Hama, and the Syrian coast....

Nawal tried to breastfeed him, but the milk dried up in her chest. "I was so terrified that the milk stopped. My son was getting weak and I couldn't feed...

“The bullets that killed families who were safe in their homes are bullets directed at the chest of every Syrian, even if they think they are far from those bullets,...