ISTANBUL — Taha al-Ghazi was not at home when the police officers arrived on May 16. After knocking on the door of his Istanbul residence, they initially told his wife they were there to verify the ...

As displaced people return to destroyed communities in southern Idlib, local initiatives are emerging as stopgap solutions for basic repairs and services, stepping into some roles that are the ...

University students who returned to Druze-majority Suwayda during recent sectarian tensions on their campuses were stopped by ...

MERSIN — Hussein al-Marandi can feel something changing in Gaziantep. For years, the Turkish city around an hour’s drive from the border with his native Aleppo has been an economic hub, hosting ...

HOMS — Around 1:30 AM on April 25, Muhammad al-Waeri and his family were fast asleep at their home in Homs city’s Alawite-majority Karm al-Loz neighborhood when a loud pounding on the door startled ...

PARIS — Local forces affiliated with the Damascus government’s General Security Directorate were killed and injured in an ambush in western Suwayda on Tuesday, in the latest outburst of violence as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

MARSEILLE — On January 20, United States (US) President Donald Trump threw the global aid architecture into chaos, issuing an executive order freezing foreign aid for 90 days pending review. The US is ...

MARSEILLE — Riding a wave of euphoria, thousands of displaced Syrians rushed home after the Assad regime fell nearly six weeks ago. Many found only ruins, their houses razed or heavily damaged and ...