DOHUK — Sitting in a small living room carefully decorated in hues of gold and brown, Wane Musa Khalif carefully clings to a single sheet of paper. Delicately, she flattens the creased and worn ...

MARSEILLE — As opposition forces swept into one Syrian city after another over the span of less than two weeks, ultimately toppling the Assad regime, prices soared and economic activity ground to a ...

DARAYYA — Ghida Matar, 32, knew Darayya was mostly destroyed before she returned from Lebanon on December 31, weeks after the Assad regime fell. Still, what she found in her hometown just south of ...

فجرت التسوية الاقتصادية التي أبرمها رجل الأعمال محمد حمشو مع الحكومة السورية الجديدة جدلاً واسعاً في الشارع السوري، نظراً ...

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 ...

PARIS — In the days after the Syrian regime took control of the southern Idlib countryside village of Kafruma in January 2020, the victors began a new task: looting. Entering the vacant homes of those ...

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 ...

PARIS — At the start of 2021, Abu Muhammad (a pseudonym) put his 16 years of teaching at a public school in the Daraa city of Inkhil behind him. His salary of 130,000 Syrian pounds (SYP)—worth $35 at ...

PARIS — The United States-led international coalition appointed Captain Muhammad Farid al-Qassem as the new commander of the coalition-backed opposition Maghawir al-Thawra faction operating in ...

PARIS — With the signing of an agreement between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi on March 10, many Syrians breathed a sigh of relief. The ...

PARIS/BEIRUT — Over his years working as an independent journalist in northeastern Syria, Mazloum Hassan* has grown familiar with navigating a minefield of unspoken red lines. That has become more ...