One survived Assad’s prisons. The other never came home. A British doctor’s sister and an American former detainee return to ...

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

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 ...

I must admit I am writing this book review of The Book of Damascus (Comma Press) as if it were, in the words of its editor, Zaher Omareen, “a complex love affair.” I don’t know why, but ever since I ...

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 ...

In his great poem “Easter, 1916,” the Irish Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats describes revolution as a “terrible beauty.” The phrase captures the poet’s ambivalence. He saw the revolutionaries as foolish; he ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAMASCUS — On a hot August day, ululations echoed through the cool hallways of Damascus University’s Political Science Faculty. It was graduation day. Students in black robes gathered with friends and ...

When the Assad regime fell in 2024, hundreds of Syrian migrants in Libya took to the streets in celebration. In cities like Tripoli, Benghazi, and al-Khoms, Syrians raised flags, chanted ‘freedom’ and ...

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 ...