After years of sectarian violence, displacement and looting, Sunni and Alawi residents in Syria’s Talkalakh are rebuilding ...

Syria has climbed 36 places on the World Press Freedom Index since Assad’s fall. But as Syrians enjoy greater freedom of ...

Gregory is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a former consultant for the International Crisis Group, and a ...

Allaf is a Syrian writer and communications strategist, and the author of It Started in Damascus – How the Long Syrian ...

DAMASCUS — On Sunday, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood announced it held a Shura Council meeting, the second of its kind since the fall of the Assad regime. In the statement, the group applauded the ...

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 ...

PARIS — The United States-led international coalition appointed Captain Muhammad Farid al-Qassem as the new commander of the coalition-backed opposition Maghawir al-Thawra faction operating in ...

PARIS — At the beginning of October, local factions in Syria’s southern Suwayda province announced the resumption of their military campaign against regime-linked groups they described as “gangs,” ...

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 ...

PARIS — Nearly 11 months since the fall of the regime, a steady drumbeat of violence continues in Syria’s southern Daraa province, where simmering insecurity and plentiful weapons destabilize ...

QUNEITRA/PARIS — All that once grew on Abu Taha’s 200 dunums (200,000 square meters) of farmland and pastures has yellowed and died, after Israeli aircraft sprayed large areas of Syria’s southern ...

IDLIB — Ten kilometers from the northern Idlib city of Maarat Misrin, the road bends sharply, curving around an abyss: the al-Hebat quarry. Few dare approach the edge of the chasm, which plunges 60 ...