The regime of the Syrian dictator systematically devastated numerous cities, preventing the displaced from returning to their places of origin. The presence of the new governor of Damascus, Maher ...

Winners and Losers Aspecter is haunting the Middle East. A little more than a quarter century after the Shah’s fall, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s wildest dreams seem to be coming ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Palestinians fled the 1948 Mideast War and took refuge in neighboring Syria. After 77 years, they're still waiting to go back ...

The regime contested them with full force, raining down barrel bombs and even chemical weapons in fighting from 2013 until a ...

After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus suburb, where the violence and ...

Syria's new de facto government faces a host of challenges. One of its most pressing is also one of its most basic: keeping the lights on.

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

a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who got her first period while being interrogated. In Syria, she met the last great storyteller of Damascus, whose own trajectory of loss reflected that of his country.

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of impunity. In recent years he was even beginning to be welcomed back to an ...

"I remember leaving my school and seeing Old Damascus: the churches ... From 2003 onwards, he began creating complex and intricate maquettes that depicted street life in Damascus. “They denied us the ...

He raised his son, perhaps 7 years old, above his shoulders to take ... image of the throngs of Syrians celebrating on the streets of Damascus after Friday prayers will live with me for the ...