Al-Hasakah – Majd al-SalemFor two months, the thirty-something Adnan Ahmed has been trying to find another house to rent proportionate to his monthly income. He visited as many as seven real estate offices in the al-Qamishi city bu...

Enab Baladi – Khawla HefzyOn 10 March, Iran’s first cargo ship will set of from the southern Bandar Abbas port in Hormozgan governorate to Latkia port in Syria, as part of a plan to resume direct sea fright between Iran and Syria....

Enab Baladi- Zeinab MasriIbrahim, a merchant from Idlib, paid 2000 USD to get the Turkey-issued Merchant Card, which permits him to pass in and out of Turkey without having to suffer routine restrictions. To his surprise, the Turki...

Enab Baladi – Jana al-IssaThe targeting of Iranian militias by U.S. forces in eastern Syria has raised questions about the strike’s location- why in Syria and not in Iraq? Especially since the U.S. Department of Defense  (Pentagon)...

Idlib countryside- Iyad Abdul JawadYusra al-Rajab, 40, left the al-Fardan displacement camp’s health center, holding in one hand a doctor’s prescription and a medicine bottle, in the other her eight-year-old sick daughter’s hand.  ...

It has been a month since northeast Syria’s Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration stopped sending petroleum tank trucks to the Syrian regime-held areas, despite the de-escalation of tensions between the two sides.  Enab Baladi has...

Aleppo-Enab Baladi Nizar, a resident of Aleppo city, who requested that his last name be withheld for security reasons, paid 650,000 Syrian pounds (SYP-305 USD, according to SYP’s exchange rate against USD in August 2020) to drive...

Ali Darwish | Amal Rantisi| Nour al-Din Ramadan| Saleh MalasSince his arrest in July 2013, I wake up every morning, hearing my mother, as if for the first time, say: “Wafa, your father is not answering his phone.” Nearly seven and...

Daraa – Halim Muhammad“It takes me two days’ work  to buy my family one chicken, weighing about 2 kg. And if I want to buy them one carton of egg, I need to work for a day and a half,” said farmworker Zuhair.Zuhair’s daily wage is...

Raqqa-Hussam al-OmarResidents of the Syrian regime-held governorates have become accustomed to scenes of long queues at fuel stations. Yet, the long lines in the governorate of Raqqa, which is under the control of the Autonomous Ad...

Enab Baladi-Louay RhebaniThe Jordanian army has made frequent announcements about thwarting drug trafficking groups coming from Syria.  Drug shipments involving large quantities of hashish and various kinds of narcotics go through...

Enab Baladi – Ali DarwishMahmoud Zuaiter, a 35-year-old store owner in the town of al-Dana, north of Idlib, cannot visit the city of al-Bab as much as he used to before January due to the deteriorating security situation. Killings,...

Enab Baladi-Diana RahimaIn 2020, the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny survived an assassination attempt, while Germany confirmed that he was poisoned with the Soviet Union developed Novichok nerve agent. Showing rare coura...

Idlib Health Directorate will start the first phase of vaccination against coronavirus (COVID-19) next March, to complete vaccination when more doses arrive in the region, as it expects  an allocation of 150,000 doses of the Oxford...

Enab Baladi – Ali DarwishPrivate companies control the fuel market share in the rebel-held province of Idlib, north-western Syria. This has sparked many questions about the factors affecting the price of fuel products, including wh...

The residents of the Jaramana camp for Palestinian refugees in Rif Dimashq governorate have been complaining about the life-threatening power cables falling into their streets, noting that their previous complaints were unanswered b...

Raqqa—Hussam al-OmarIt has been two years since Jaber, who works in a car repair shop, was stuck in Raqqa city, unable to leave it at all. He fears the conscription checkpoints spreading across his city’s suburbs.Jaber Muhammad, 2...

Homs—Orwa al-MundhirIn the depths of the Syrian desert, the “strategic” al-Sukhna district, stretching from the eastern borders of Palmyra as far as Deir ez-Zor, has been hitting headlines lately, being a site for unrelenting attac...

 Enab Baladi-Louay RhebaniLess than two months before Syria’s presidential elections, scheduled to be held in April, the Syrian regime has accelerated a number of measures to calm tensions prevailing in the southern part of Syria,...

Enab Baladi—Ali DarwishJihadist groups in Syria have been retreating from the media spotlight. Keeping a low-profile, little to none of their famous Isdarat videos have been circulated in the last two years. Some of these Isdarat...

Al-Hasakeh-Majd al-Salem Youssef Jalal, who is in his fifties, left the pharmacy with a white package full of medications after visiting five pharmacies looking for an affordable price. “It is no longer strange to go to many pharm...

Zeinab Masri| Saleh Malas| Nour al-Deen RamadanWeeks have passed since countries worldwide started COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, administrating to the public one type or the other of the vaccine varieties developed so far. In Syr...

Enab Baladi – Zeinab MasriOn 19 January, the Damascus Securities Exchange (DSE) closed with a capitalization of about 43 million Syrian Pounds (SYP), equivalent to 15 thousand USD according to the black market’s exchange rate. This...

The organization process of urban development plans in Syria faces several problems, mainly the yawning gap between reality and the details in the cadastral certificate.The Director of Legislation and Land Registration at the Gener...

Enab Baladi-Jana AlisaSeeing the two red lines of a pregnancy test could be an indication of future happiness in the family. Yet, pregnant women living in Syria’s displacement camps also feel fear and apprehension because they have...