Assad is gone, but Syria’s revolution is far from over. Journalist and author Anand Gopal tells Syria Direct why the struggle ...

Syrian Kurds protest the introduction of Arabic-language instruction in schools, raising fears over Kurdish identity, ...

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 ...

As Syria charts a new course and transitional justice efforts proceed, advocates see a unique opportunity to reform the country’s nationality law and address statelessness.

PARIS — In the eastern Deir e-Zor town of Ghranij, a 25-year vendetta was put to rest last month. Through efforts by a number of clan sheikhs and notables in the Syrian Democratic Forces ...

NEW YORK — As the sun sets on a Friday evening, preparations for Shabbat are in full swing in South Brooklyn. Local businesses—a modest kosher restaurant, a Levantine pastry shop, a Judaica ...

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 ...

PARIS — From the rooftop of a friend’s house in the Quneitra village of Jubata al-Khashab, Abu Saddam watches his land from afar. For two years, he has not been able to approach the 10 dunums he ...

BANIYAS — On the morning of March 7, the thick scent of incense wafted through the sea air at the Sheikh Hilal Cemetery in Syria’s seaside city of Baniyas. Seagulls flew overhead as dozens of mourners ...

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 ...

تشهد سوريا زخماً استثمارياً تجلّى في عقود أُبرمت خلال الدورة الثالثة والستين من معرض دمشق الدولي، وفي الإعلان عن زيارة وفد تجاري أمريكي يضم ...

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 ...