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

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

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS — In the new Syria, Ahmad al-Hayes’s star is rising. At the beginning of May, after being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, the once-leader of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya ...

PARIS — With the end of each year since 2011, Syrians have ushered in the new year with dreams of better days to come, only to find themselves facing new crises—especially with the country’s faltering ...

PARIS — Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure in the southern province or the primary representative of his ...

DAMASCUS — Syria held its first post-Assad elections on Sunday: an indirect vote to select members of the People’s Assembly, the country’s legislative body, for a 30-month extendable term.

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/QAMISHLI — A ceasefire between Syria’s transitional government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) halted clashes in two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Aleppo city this week, but the brief ...

PARIS — Following months of stalemate, a prisoner exchange between the Syrian government and the National Guard in Suwayda at the end of February stirred stagnant waters in the Druze-majority southern ...

DAMASCUS — Shivering in the snow, encircled by government forces and cut off from electricity, internet and stable water access, residents of Kurdish-majority Kobani (Ain al-Arab) say their city is ...