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 ...

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 ...

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 — The land is dry, and the water does not come. For Abu Said in Inkhil, northern Daraa, it is an expensive problem. Without public water for more than a month, he has spent half his monthly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS — The case against a controversial commander—Muhammad al-Jassim, also known as Abu Amsha—in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) accused of human rights violations and abuses appears to ...