The U.S.-backed Syrian rebel forces have seized Deir ez-Zor in the latest setback for President Bashar al-Assad. Follow ...

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary ...

Syria’s economy has been wrecked by war and sanctions. GDP is down more than 70% since 2011. Millions of people need homes, ...

Billionaire George Soros is pledging $1 million in humanitarian aid for Syria. Soros made the announcement in his acceptance ...

The Syrian conflict may be confusing, but we're here to explain the basics. A protester loyal to the Shi'ite Muslim Al-Houthi group, also known as Ansarullah, holds a poster of Syria's President ...

During the more than decade-long civil war in Syria, millions were displaced in the country and millions more fled abroad as ...

Fighters have settled across northern Syria, surprising displaced Syrians who've tried to return to their homes. Nearly a year after the war's end, sorting out property ownership remains a pressing ...

Updated April 10, 2025 at 05:03 AM ET KOAYIAH, Syria — A panicked phone call, then explosions. Abdul Rahman Hamdan recalls how his uncle called him from their family's olive grove early one morning ...

Syria is potentially “weeks” away from collapse, even though the U.S. recently eased longstanding sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday. The ...

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 ...

Syria’s opposition needs to be more representative and inclusive, say U.S. officials mindful of the dangers of an increasingly sectarian civil war. But the scale of the challenge in creating an ...

Reports on bombings in Syria these days have become routine. But when Mohammad Sabbagh, an industrialist from Aleppo, heard about the attack near his hometown on March 19, the details stopped him cold ...