Syrians Want to Go Home, but Many No Longer Have One to Return To
Syrian’s interim president has said that millions would return after President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, but many houses and other buildings were destroyed in 13 years of civil war.
Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy
The peril and promise of Syria under interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa — the former leader of an Islamist insurgent group — ...
A country too dangerous to visit is one I can’t wait to return to
As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...
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Factories shut, fleeing fighters: How Iran’s sway in Syria collapsed
In an abandoned complex in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, a piece of paper bearing a motivational slogan in Farsi is pinned to a rough wall. “No beginning is more beautiful than hello, and no wish ...
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What Data Tells Us About The Violence In Syria
A series of violent clashes in Syria points to both the lingering Russian and Iranian presence in the country, as well as the extreme risks to civilians. Through interviews and analysis of open-source ...
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Syrian Kurds celebrate deal with Damascus as coastal residents remain wary after violence
Lebanon is hosting more than 755,000 registered Syrian refugees, with hundreds of thousands more believed to be unregistered.
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Syria announces end to ‘military operation’ after mass killings
Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, ...
New Syrian leader Sharaa says killings of Alawites threaten unity, vows justice
Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those ...
The last good days in Syria before a new nightmare began
When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...
Syria's Druze seek a place in a changing nation, navigating pressures from the government and Israel
Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...
2 days of clashes and revenge killings in Syria leave more than 1,000 people dead
The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and ...