The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

“The line is, ‘This may be one of the few places in Syria where pictures of Hafez are still intact,’” Boechat says. And he is correct. Most of Syria’s public art of the Assads has been ...