The success of transitional justice is measured not by the measures taken, but by the extent to which they can achieve ...

Syria’s worst drought in decades has wiped out rain-fed crops and diminished yields across the country, devastating farmers ...

With the war over, Syrians face a new struggle: addressing past harms and building a peaceful future together. With ...

Iron salvage is a common form of survival work in northern Syria, a way of eking life out of destroyed buildings—an all-too-plentiful resource. It is also a largely unregulated and hazardous sector, ...

IDLIB — Nour Raad al-Fares stands over a chunk of concrete, part of what remains of a destroyed building in the northern Hama countryside town of Kafr Zita. Wielding a sledgehammer, he pounds it to ...

HASAKAH/PARIS — A round of negotiations set to get underway on Friday between Syria’s transitional government and a delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) was ...

ISTANBUL — Taha al-Ghazi was not at home when the police officers arrived on May 16. After knocking on the door of his Istanbul residence, they initially told his wife they were there to verify the ...

QAMISHLI — At her home in Syria’s northeastern Qamishli city, high school student Sima Ahmed sits down to study and do her homework in Kurdish, her mother tongue and the language that “reflects my ...

MERSIN — Hussein al-Marandi can feel something changing in Gaziantep. For years, the Turkish city around an hour’s drive from the border with his native Aleppo has been an economic hub, hosting ...

PARIS — Local forces affiliated with the Damascus government’s General Security Directorate were killed and injured in an ambush in western Suwayda on Tuesday, in the latest outburst of violence as a ...

AFRIN — At the start of April, Amina Ali finally went home. The 58-year-old and her husband returned to al-Maabatli, their town in Afrin, a Kurdish-majority region of northwestern Syria, more than ...

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 ...