A year of false starts, bloodshed, shifting balances of power and foreign intervention has produced a complicated landscape ...
The first year of the “new Syria” brought relative economic stability and a marked improvement in the exchange rate of the ...
Once scattered and safeguarded abroad, Syria’s native seeds are taking root once more, part of an organic revival aimed at ...
مع اكتشاف عشرات المقابر الجماعية بعد سقوط نظام الأسد، يواجه السوريون مهمة شاقة تتمثل في تحديد هوية الضحايا ووضع حدّ لمعاناة ...
تعد التوغلات الإسرائيلية من أكثر العوامل تعطيلاً لعودة المهجرين إلى قراهم في جنوب سوريا، الذين وجدوا أنفسهم أمام خيارين: ...
DAMASCUS — A few weeks after Assad fell on December 8, 2024, Khalil al-Ahmad (a pseudonym) traveled from Syria’s northeastern Raqqa city to Damascus for the first time in his life. He had been wanted ...
QAMISHLI — The dancers pound their feet to the heavy beat of drums. In unison, each raises a right arm into a fist and draws it back, poised to shoot an invisible bow. They release, and together spin ...
PARIS — When Daraa olive farmer Abu Hussam completed this year’s harvest, the scale of his losses became clear. His grove near Inkhil, a city in Syria’s southern Daraa province, produced just 1.5 tons ...
PARIS — In the days after the Syrian regime took control of the southern Idlib countryside village of Kafruma in January 2020, the victors began a new task: looting. Entering the vacant homes of those ...
QUNEITRA — It was two o’clock in the morning of September 16 when Muhammad Hussein Arabi, 48, woke to the din of sound bombs near his house in Khan Arnabeh, a small town in Syria’s southwestern ...
DAMASCUS — In an ornate room in the Kremlin, a meeting unthinkable only a year ago took place last week: Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the man at the helm of Syria’s post-Assad political ...
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.