Before Christmas Eve, attackers burned a Christmas tree near the Syrian city of Hama. Additionally, some groups moved around ...

The scars that disfigure Syria after 14 years of civil war are wider than its minefields. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of towns and villages across the country have been destroyed or abandoned in one ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

The people and rulers of the land of Syria have experienced this throughout the last 5,000 years, ever since Damascus and Aleppo emerged ... its strategic geography. Ancient and modern empires ...

For others, the calculus around ... Aleppo to wait it out. Within weeks, that city was also under fire, so they left again, this time for Tadmur, a city known at home and abroad for its glorious ...

The scatter of ancient settlements in Zhambyl land The ancient settlement of Taraz ... Similar architectural styles can only be found in Aleppo, Damascus, and Samaria. The medieval city of Kulan, ...

This is Part 3 of a four-part series by Shahira Salloum, managing editor of Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, reflecting on her January ...

Who’s buying up land around Joshua Tree National Park? And why? In 2021, a mysterious real estate investment firm started buying up desert land within Joshua Tree National Park. Fast forward to ...

Claiming justification from the recently signed Expropriation Bill, occupiers of the new Juju Valley informal settlement argue that the legislation allows for private land to be appropriated for ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...