Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

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

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

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

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...

DAMASCUS - A United Nations commission said on Feb 6 it had documented the systematic destruction and pillaging of displaced people’s property during Syria’s war, warning of demographic change ...

Security forces of the new Syrian government’s General Security Department enter ... Frantzman is an adjunct fellow at FDD and a contributor to FDD’s Long War Journal. He is the senior Middle East ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades ... the northeast enclave they carved out during the country's civil war.

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Madhhan, who originates from the southern city of Daraa, said he was the head of the Forensic Evidence Department of the Military Police in Damascus before ... war crimes accountable”. “As the ...