After days of bloodshed, a tense calm hangs over Jableh, a coastal city in Syria’s Latakia province that was an epicenter of ...

Down a winding, stone-gray alleyway in Damascus’s ancient city center, a small door opens to a large, sunny atrium. Inside, ...

Syria’s long-awaited national dialogue conference wrapped up on Tuesday, just two days after it was announced. Around 600 ...

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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 ...

DARAA/PARIS — “Around this time, our cars would usually be leaving the Yarmouk Valley brimming with zucchini, beans and tomatoes. This year, the Israeli occupation has stopped us, destroying our ...

Early Sunday mornings, the narrow, winding streets of Beirut’s Burj al-Barajneh camp are calm and quiet, save for an occasional moped. Some of the earliest risers—shopkeepers and day laborers—greet ...

ERBIL — Days before the new Damascus government’s security forces entered Afrin, a Kurdish-majority Afrin area of the Aleppo countryside, “to strengthen security” on February 7, 43-year-old Rami ...

PARIS — Syrian markets are experiencing instability in the prices of basic goods as the black market exchange rate of the pound fluctuates sharply, while the Central Bank of Syria takes a hands-off ...