Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported ...
In-depth: The decision by Syria's new de facto leader to grant high-ranking military titles to HTS commanders, including ...
Until the fall of the al-Assad regime, the word “dollar” was forbidden in public. Instead, people used anything green – my ...
Elections may not be held in Syria for up to four years, the country’s de facto leader has said, in his first comments on an ...
When Syria's dictatorship fell, celebrations broke out around the world, including in Ohio, where Mohammed al-Refai, a refugee from Syria, lives now. NPR has followed his story for nearly a decade.
The activist documented his time in Syria and posted online videos of himself celebrating the fall of the Assad regime in ...
Ahmad al-Sharaa speaks at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 8, 2024. (Omar Albam/AP) It’s unlikely Sharaa has ...
Tensions Rise as Turkey's Erdogan Family Calls for Invasion of Israel** In an alarming escalation of rhetoric, the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has organized a ...
Arabic is written from right to left and sometimes things mean the opposite of what they do, but the problem is that we’ve adopted the Middle Eastern habit of dealing with the region by making words ...
What returning to Syria in the midst of the euphoria and horror of uncovering the al-Assads’ mass graves felt like.
The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...