There are two versions of Sayyida Zaynab, the suburb south of Damascus and home to a shrine for a revered Muslim figure. One ...

I have just returned from a week in Syria with the British-Syrian diaspora, who have done much over the past 12 years to keep ...

Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun was a figure closely linked to the former regime of Bashar Al-Assad, and has been in hiding since the ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...