Driven by high property prices, Daraa residents are building homes beyond the planned boundaries of cities and towns, ...

The living and the dead are coming home to Afrin as displaced families return with the remains of their loved ones, ...

Harried by government security campaigns, IS appears unable to regain territorial control in Syria, instead working to maintain visibility through limited operations while betting on the failure of ...

STUTTGART/BEIRUT — Since the fall of the Assad regime, European governments have been eagerly searching for ways to halt new asylum applications from Syrians in Europe, and to start deporting those ...

PARIS, IDLIB — The land, 60 dunums in al-Judayda, a Christian village in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, was everything to Julian’s family. From season to season, it sustained them, until Hayat ...

DARAA/HASAKAH/PARIS — “I won’t plant a single dunam next year—it’s a losing business,” farmer Farhad Ahmad Sinjar said. For the past two years, he has watched his land produce less and less, parched ...

PARIS — Last week, internationally sanctioned Syrian businessman Muhammad Saber Hamsho completed a financial settlement with the country’s new government, a step he described as “opening a new chapter ...

QAMISHLI — Sitting together in a classroom-turned-shelter in the northeastern Syrian border city of Qamishli, Ahmad Aref Abdalo, 54, and Najwa Qamiha, 43, told the story of the day their teenage ...

PARIS — From the rooftop of a friend’s house in the Quneitra village of Jubata al-Khashab, Abu Saddam watches his land from afar. For two years, he has not been able to approach the 10 dunums he ...

IDLIB — “I seek out any blank or dull surface that I can bring alive with colors,” Yafa Diab said. Through peace and war, the 25-year-old painter’s passion for art has been a lifelong love story.

In northern Syria’s Kobani, a border city facing Turkish shelling and continuous threats of a ground assault, many residents are trying to sell their property to pay for a way out. With the city’s ...

NEW YORK — As the sun sets on a Friday evening, preparations for Shabbat are in full swing in South Brooklyn. Local businesses—a modest kosher restaurant, a Levantine pastry shop, a Judaica ...