In the 14 years since the war in Syria broke out, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions have been displaced from their homes or have lost their livelihoods. What began as a ...

President Donald Trump declared in his first term that the Islamic State group was defeated and that U.S. troops would leave Syria. This weekend, a gunman linked to the Islamic State group killed two ...

Aziz Habesh knows his way around kibbeh. Sitting in Vezir Han, in the shadow of Istanbul’s Fatih Mosque, the maitre d’ begins to list the types on offer at the Syrian restaurant. He starts counting on ...

It's been 14 years since the eruption of the nationwide protests in Syria that would devolve into a multisided civil war still raging today across the country. Yet this Saturday marks the first ...

On Sept. 21, 2025, a senior U.S official boasted that an Israeli-Syrian security agreement to resolve months of conflict was “99% complete” and would be announced within two weeks. Those two weeks ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — When a dozen firefighters showed up within minutes to douse a mattress that accidentally caught fire on the roof of his apartment building, Mohamed Bassem Said was gobsmacked. Said, ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's civil war with his family as a teenager, shortly after he was freed from prison, having witnessed terrible abuses by the former regime. Now a U.S.

The pitched battle for Syria’s future could eventually pull the country apart and precipitate a seismic sectarian shift in the region, says Mideast expert Mona Yacoubian. Syria’s nearly two-year-old ...

Some are calling the actions of Turkish-backed fighters "war crimes." Hevrin Khalaf, a 35-year-old Kurdish-Syrian politician and the general secretary of the Syria Future Party, which aimed to ...

As global conflicts continue to test the limits of humanitarian response, a recent campus event turned attention to how international aid can influence the course of war and the people caught within ...

We're told that American troops are in Syria to prevent "another costly, large-scale war," but every time someone attacks those troops, we're told the U.S. has to double down on its commitment to ...