Nawa is a town on the Hauran plain of southern Syria, in the Izra' District of Dar'a Governorate, between the Damascus corridor to the north and the Jordanian border to the south. It serves as the administrative centre of a sub-district of six localities, for which the Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics recorded a population of 57,404 in the 2004 census.

Nawa's economy has always rested on the volcanic soils around it: grain and olive cultivation on the black basalt plain that made the Hauran one of the historic granaries of the region.

No institution has published a damage assessment covering Nawa on its own. Satellite-based building assessments and city-level surveys of southern Syria have concentrated on Dar'a city, and figures published for the governorate as a whole cannot be read down to the town: a governorate total is not a town total, and this page does not present one as if it were.

What is documented is the national frame within which Nawa's recovery sits. In its Syria Physical Damage and Reconstruction Assessment 2011–2024, published on 21 October 2025, the World Bank put direct physical damage to infrastructure, residential buildings and non-residential buildings at 108 billion US dollars, and estimated the cost of rebuilding damaged assets at between 140 billion and 345 billion US dollars, with a conservative best estimate of 216 billion. The assessment names Aleppo, Rif Dimashq and Homs as the governorates most severely affected in total damage terms; Dar'a is not singled out in that ranking.

For Nawa specifically, the practical step that would change this page is a town-level survey of housing, water, electricity and agricultural infrastructure by an institution that publishes its counts. Until such a survey exists, the honest position is that the scale of damage in Nawa is undocumented in the public record rather than known and unstated.