What Al-Jolani’s Past Can Reveal About Syria’s Future. Jonathan Spyer 

In Syria, the hope for a “plural” future. abouna.org

There may be hope for Syrian Christians, but don’t expect them to join the party yet. By John L. Allen Jr, Crux.

An amazing story of one prisoner who was accidentally left locked in his cell without food and water when the guards fled and all others were released — only to be discovered after four days by a visiting American journalist. A very powerful and moving human story by the greatest foreign correspondent in the English…

By CNNs Clarissa Ward, who also speaks to the families of the missing. She has covered wars in Syria, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, and state terror in Russia

A look into the hell of Bashir Al Assad’s prisons, opened by the victorious rebels to the public and journalists after all the living inmates were released. Story by a correspondent for the PBS Newshour, Leila Molana-Allen

Inside the country today, people cannot fathom their present, let alone see any future

Trapped under debris, persecuted by the Assad regime and forsaken by allies, the people of northwestern Syria pinned their hopes on the UN — and were betrayed