Last year I mentioned that Syria has returned. Today, I say that Syria is rising.” Ahmed al-Sharaa returned to the UN with ...

Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood survived decades of repression and exile. Now, facing regional pressure and internal divisions, ...

What comes after an “impossible revolution” succeeds? Idrees Ahmad reviews Robin Yassin-Kassab’s The Blood Between Us and 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 ...

BANIYAS — On the morning of March 7, the thick scent of incense wafted through the sea air at the Sheikh Hilal Cemetery in Syria’s seaside city of Baniyas. Seagulls flew overhead as dozens of mourners ...

ALEPPO — The public trial of the first of hundreds of suspects accused of crimes during deadly clashes and sectarian killings on Syria’s Alawite-majority coast began on Tuesday, marking the first step ...

RAQQA — Strolling south from al-Naim square in the heart of Syria’s northeastern Raqqa city, past the former teachers’ syndicate, brings you to al-Rashid Park beside the Martyrs’ Church. In this place ...

PARIS — In the eastern Deir e-Zor town of Ghranij, a 25-year vendetta was put to rest last month. Through efforts by a number of clan sheikhs and notables in the Syrian Democratic Forces ...

PARIS — Abu Zaki al-Zoubi and a group of clan notables in Syria’s southern Houran region are on the verge of ending a years-long dispute and blood feud between three families in the western Daraa city ...

As Syrian Jews and their allies in the diaspora work to reestablish ties and revive Syria’s ancient Jewish heritage, politics bubble beneath the surface. One thorny question—whether and how Israel ...

STUTTGART/BEIRUT — Since the fall of the Assad regime, European governments have been eagerly searching for ways to halt new asylum applications from Syrians in Europe, and to start deporting those ...

DARAYYA/DOUMA — In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.” “Its green valley extends east as far ...