Shelly Kittleson

Deir ez-Zor: “That was where military security would shoot at us,” a young man in uniform told Al Majalla on a ride through some of the parts of this…

Daraa: “Israel has a much larger plan than ‘protecting the Druze’ in Sweida,” the deputy governor of Syria’s Daraa governorate told Al Majalla in a…

Sweida, Syria: The difference between a late December visit and one in early August to this southern Druze-majority city was stark, though the spark…

Afrin, Syria: “Our men didn’t even enter Jableh,” claimed Brigadier General Mohammed al-Jassim during an extensive interview with Al Majalla on his…

Idlib: Flat expanses surrounding the regional capital of this Syrian province grow rockier and mountainous both to the west and the north along the…

Hader, Quneitra Province: A convoy of Lebanese-registered vehicles carrying members of the Druze community from across the border snaked through the…

Baghdad: The head of Iraq’s Development Fund waxed lyrical about the long-lost but once ubiquitous scent of apricot trees in a much-cleaner capital…

Erbil: The three blindfolded Kurdish men kneeling in yellow jumpsuits with their backs to the audience recalled the Baghdad trials of alleged Islamic…

Baghdad: Fighter jets screeched overhead, and tanks rolled under the Victory Arch in the Iraqi capital on the morning of 6 January in honour of the…

Erbil: For over two months, near-daily attacks have targeted facilities hosting US-led coalition forces stationed in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq …