Syria has climbed 36 places on the World Press Freedom Index since Assad’s fall. But as Syrians enjoy greater freedom of ...
Allaf is a Syrian writer and communications strategist, and the author of It Started in Damascus – How the Long Syrian ...
Can you truly know a city you love? In this personal review of The Book of Damascus, Tam Hussein explores the hidden lives, ...
DAMASCUS — On September 30, Central Bank Governor Mohammed Raslan posted on Instagram about carrying out his first Mastercard ...
Syrian Kurds protest the introduction of Arabic-language instruction in schools, raising fears over Kurdish identity, ...
Anand Gopal is a journalist and author of Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution, a book which covers the city of Manbij as it undergoes the tumult of revolution. Syria ...
DEIR E-ZOR — The Syrian Petroleum Company’s report struck an optimistic note: “From rubble to a functioning production line” was how engineers at the al-Tabiyah gas plant, better known as “Conoco”, ...
MAARAT AL-NUMAN — A spike in fuel prices has triggered days of mass protests across eight of Syria’s provinces, including Idlib, the historic stronghold of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in northwestern ...
When President Emmanuel Macron returned 23 Syrian artifacts in July, the gesture went far beyond diplomacy. It was a recognition that antiquities had become symbols of the country’s attempt to reclaim ...
QAMISHLI — A year and a half after burying her three-year-old son in a cemetery in Hasakah city, Haifa Naasan, 24, brought his body home with her to Afrin. Naasan journeyed back to her birthplace, the ...
MOUNT HERMON FOOTHILLS — From Qatana, a multi-ethnic town in the countryside southwest of Damascus, the road to Mount Hermon—known in Syria as Jabal al-Sheikh— winds upward through a string of five ...
PARIS — Year by year, the soil of Muhammad Abu Jumaa’s land on the outskirts of Raqqa’s al-Mansoura village grows more saline. At one of his farms, five of 20 dunams are now unusable land, locally ...