Violent evictions from the informal Alawite neighborhood of al-Somoriyeh are part of a deeper story: longstanding property disputes with the neighboring town of Moadamiyat al-Sham, whose residents ...

Caught between the Suwayda crisis to the east and Israeli incursions to the west, Daraa grapples with new security, economic ...

PARIS — Last week, when Muhammad Abdulhalim (a pseudonym) returned to Syria’s southern Daraa province with his wife and children after 13 years in Jordan, a piece of the Zaatari refugee camp came with ...

AL-BUWEIDA AL-SAGHIRA — Bilal Abu Saleh, 43, stands dejectedly in front of his well. The water is there, beneath his feet, but he cannot use it. This late June morning, the sun is blinding, the heat ...

SUWAYDA/DARAA — Deema Saraya, 41, sits at one end of a long table in the vestibule of her family’s home in Suwayda, southern Syria, a cracked mirror at her back. As she raises her eyes, she sees the ...

PARIS — Working among the ashes, Syrian Civil Defense teams continued cooling and monitoring operations in the Latakia countryside on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after catastrophic wildfires broke out ...

IDLIB — Every day, water tankers roam the streets of southern Idlib cities and villages. It is an unfamiliar sight, and a sign of a deepening water crisis in the area since thousands of displaced ...

MARSEILLE — United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most of his country’s sanctions on Syria on Monday, formalizing a sea change in Washington’s approach to Damascus and ...

PARIS — Syrian authorities dismissed at least 200 security personnel in Daraa on Wednesday, citing “behavior violations and misconduct.” The firings came in the wake of a number of violations and ...

PARIS — In the new Syria, Ahmad al-Hayes’s star is rising. At the beginning of May, after being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, the once-leader of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya ...

DARAA/HASAKAH/PARIS — “I won’t plant a single dunam next year—it’s a losing business,” farmer Farhad Ahmad Sinjar said. For the past two years, he has watched his land produce less and less, parched ...

HASAKAH/PARIS — A round of negotiations set to get underway on Friday between Syria’s transitional government and a delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) was ...