The prospect of renewed activity has also revived concerns among Syrians who remember the involvement of Iran-backed armed ...

A church attack in Karak, a Jordanian strike in southern Syria and a foiled 2 million-pill smuggling run have raised tensions ...

Damascus, Syria – For most of the war, Bahjat Hajjar worked outside the Syrian state. A co-founder of the Local Administration Councils Unit, he spent years between Turkiye and opposition-held ...

Firefighter Naser Brjas and White Helmet member Kinan Ali respond to an emergency call in Damascus on March 31, 2025. Every morning for 28 years, Haitham Nasrallah has opened his locker and put on his ...

Emily Feng is the author of “Our Hearts Burned for Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria’s Civil War.” ...

The ministers remarks were made during a meeting held on Monday in Rome on the sidelines of a conference held by the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS ...

A Syrian girl who was injured by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad stands at the entrance of her house in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Nov. 22, ...

Syria opens up to tourists and investors after long civil war Tourist numbers more than double in H1 2026, data shows Gulf, European and US hotel groups ready to invest Security risks and challenges ...

Vali Nassar, who worked closely with Richard Holebrooke in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2011 and is a member of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, argues that the real winner in the ...

Syria is carefully considering providing military assistance to key ally Saudi Arabia amid an escalating war against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, a US official and a Syrian ​military official ...

A move to join Saudi Arabia’s agreement with Turkey and Pakistan could entangle more countries in the kingdom’s escalating ...