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 ...
The living and the dead are coming home to Afrin as displaced families return with the remains of their loved ones, ...
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 ...
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 ...
DAMASCUS — Dana Hamila, 38, spends her days at home in Germany making soap and selling it online. Born and raised in Syria, she left in 2017 with her then-husband, who was wanted by the former regime ...
MOUNT HERMON FOOTHILLS — From Qatana, a multi-ethnic town in the countryside southwest of Damascus, the road to Mount Hermon—known in Syria as Jabal al-Sheikh— winds upward through a string of five ...
PARIS — Year by year, the soil of Muhammad Abu Jumaa’s land on the outskirts of Raqqa’s al-Mansoura village grows more saline. At one of his farms, five of 20 dunams are now unusable land, locally ...
PARIS — Roughly a year since Syria’s current government was formed and tasked with overseeing the country’s five-year political transition, President Ahmad al-Sharaa redrew part of the power structure ...
PARIS — Syria marked World Press Freedom Day on May 3 with what many describe as a historic leap, rising 36 places to rank 141 out of 180 in the global press freedom index published by Reporters ...
PARIS/DAMASCUS — For months, a standoff between the Syrian government and de facto authorities in Suwayda province over the recognition of national exams has left thousands of high school students in ...
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 ...
QAMISHLI — Standing outside the municipal stadium in Qamishli, Assem Abdullah Hamou, 51, and his brother joined dozens of other stateless Syrian Kurds holding sheaves of documents on Monday. In their ...