Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster in the hope ...

Mammoth concrete apartment buildings line the main motorway running west out of Damascus, relics of a Soviet-style economy ...

The capture of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad last December sent ...

Syria's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa met China's ambassador to Damascus in the first public engagement between the two ...

There has been international pressure for al-Sharaa to follow through on promises of an inclusive political transition. U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said this week that formation of a ...

After Assad’s fall, the comedians of 'Styria' perform openly in Syria, tackling corruption, criticising unjust laws, and ...

Expect strong action on migration globally in 2025, but effective and human action are both complicated. A whole–of–government approach that addresses negative drivers of migration, especially forced ...

Meanwhile, some of the U.S. Forest Service employees who had been working to repair trails and campgrounds damaged by Hurricane Helene have been fired.

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago, they were met by former ...

The regime’s collapse should also dispel at last the persistent myth that the Arab Spring was a mirage. The first wave of ...

Syria's health-care system has undergone profound upheaval over the past decade, shaped by conflict, fragmentation, and now, a tenuous political transition. The acute conflict phase (2011–15) ...