For days, Daraa activists have been sending out calls to participate in events commemorating the 14th anniversary of the ...

DARAYYA/DOUMA — In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.” “Its green valley extends east as far ...

JARAMANA/SUWAYDA — Syrians across the country took to the streets this week on the March 18 anniversary of the revolution to protest Israel’s resumption of the war on Gaza—as well as strikes on Syria ...

Flowers fell from a Syrian army helicopter on Saturday, strewn over Damascus alongside scraps of paper with messages of ...

Factions in Syria’s southern Suwayda province are split on whether to merge with Damascus. One side—aligned with Druze ...

AL-MASSAOUDIYE — Sara (a pseudonym) wore a fuzzy rainbow jacket, her blue rubber sandals caked in thick mud as she trudged up the road from the river marking Lebanon’s northern border with Syria on ...

SUWAYDA/PARIS — Local military groups took to main streets and central squares in Syria’s southern Suwayda province on Thursday night, raising the Druze flag and firing into the air. The armed ...

DAMASCUS — Down a winding, stone-gray alleyway in Damascus’s ancient city center, a small door opens to a large, sunny atrium. Inside, nearly 200 Syrian artists gather: musicians, actors, dancers, ...

PARIS — Syria’s new government reached a landmark agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday to integrate “all civilian and military institutions” in the country’s northeast into the ...

تحمل سوريا إرثاً ثقيلاً من العنف المؤسسي، الذي جسدته الفروع الأمنية والسجون المنتشرة في طول البلاد وعرضها، والتي كانت لسنوات طويلة مسرحاً لأبشع الجرائم بحق المعتقلين. لم يكن سجن صيدنايا (المسلخ البشري ...

DAMASCUS/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the ...