Soil salinization is a complex and expanding crisis in rural Raqqa, where fields are becoming unusable and farmers have ...

Sharaa’s reshuffle of governors and ministers, questions have emerged over whether the appointments reflect growing public ...

PARIS — In mid-2021, Hassan Abu Ayoub (a pseudonym), left Daraa city in southern Syria for Libya aiming to cross the Mediterranean Sea from there to Europe, only to end up in the prisons of the Libyan ...

Syrian refugees who built lives in Jordan are packing up and starting over, as rising costs of living and aid cuts push them to return home—despite the hardships waiting on the other side of the ...

NEW YORK — As the sun sets on a Friday evening, preparations for Shabbat are in full swing in South Brooklyn. Local businesses—a modest kosher restaurant, a Levantine pastry shop, a Judaica ...

PARIS — Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure in the southern province or the primary representative of his ...

PARIS — In the new Syria, Ahmad al-Hayes’s star is rising. At the beginning of May, after being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, the once-leader of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya ...

QAZLACHOKH — With its low-lying mud houses surrounded by flat expanses of sprouting wheat, Qazlachokh looks like any other village in the countryside of Amuda, a town deep in Syria’s northeastern ...

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 ...

QUNEITRA/PARIS — All that once grew on Abu Taha’s 200 dunums (200,000 square meters) of farmland and pastures has yellowed and died, after Israeli aircraft sprayed large areas of Syria’s southern ...

PARIS, IDLIB — The land, 60 dunums in al-Judayda, a Christian village in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, was everything to Julian’s family. From season to season, it sustained them, until Hayat ...

Muhammad Jalmoud, 18, did not know that death was waiting for him on the other side of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing when he was pleading to enter Turkey to receive treatment for cancer earlier this ...