Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence ...

Christians were about 10 percent of Syria’s population of 21 million before the war began in 2011. As of 2022, they accounted for about 5 percent, with fewer than 700,000 left, according to ...

PALMYRA, Syria ... war. It also carries Syrian hopes of reviving the country's rich archaeological legacy. Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site — inhabited for thousands of years before ...

Syria’s civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and one-third Muslim. Can they live together peacefully again? Syria’s civil ...

"I was a regional manager at a private bank in Syria," Habib says. "When the revolution started, some people carried guns, some people left, and some people volunteered." Before the war ...

Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a ...

With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new ... putting out the flames before anyone was injured, wore gold and navy uniforms — and signature white helmets.

The new regime in Damascus inherited a country ruined by a 13-year civil war. HTS’s leader ... to manage relations with Syria’s new regime. One set of Israeli officials holds that Israel should try ...

A Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman is to go on trial in France on Tuesday under the principle of universal jurisdiction, accused of complicity in war crimes ... Assad's government before ...

Ayman Oghanna for NPR This ancient city, once one of the most important stops on the Silk Road, bears the scars of ISIS attacks and more than a decade of Syria ... before the start of the civil ...