Harried by government security campaigns, IS appears unable to regain territorial control in Syria, instead working to maintain visibility through limited operations while betting on the failure of ...

NEW YORK — As the sun sets on a Friday evening, preparations for Shabbat are in full swing in South Brooklyn. Local businesses—a modest kosher restaurant, a Levantine pastry shop, a Judaica ...

PARIS — Nearly 11 months since the fall of the regime, a steady drumbeat of violence continues in Syria’s southern Daraa province, where simmering insecurity and plentiful weapons destabilize ...

PARIS/QAMISHLI — The Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are taking slow, simultaneous moves towards implementing the January 30 integration agreement, most recently withdrawing ...

BANIYAS — On the morning of March 7, the thick scent of incense wafted through the sea air at the Sheikh Hilal Cemetery in Syria’s seaside city of Baniyas. Seagulls flew overhead as dozens of mourners ...

PARIS/QAMISHLI — Syrian security forces deployed inside Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood on Saturday morning, extending their foothold in the last Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stronghold in the ...

QAMISHLI — Sitting together in a classroom-turned-shelter in the northeastern Syrian border city of Qamishli, Ahmad Aref Abdalo, 54, and Najwa Qamiha, 43, told the story of the day their teenage ...

STUTTGART/BEIRUT — Since the fall of the Assad regime, European governments have been eagerly searching for ways to halt new asylum applications from Syrians in Europe, and to start deporting those ...

DAMASCUS — In late November 2022, the Syrian government’s General Housing Establishment issued Announcement No. 16114, which stated that 522 homes would be allocated to those registered for the ...

DUHOK — Empty Nutella jars filled with spices stand perfectly ordered on the kitchen shelf. Onions are growing in the garden. Hemrin turns on the fan while she sews the flowery clothes that her ...

NICOSIA — A minutes’ walk from terrace cafes in the old city of the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, around a dozen Syrian men roll up their blankets and sleeping pads in the courtyard of a mosque. Most have ...