Hawke's Bay-born humanitarian Mike Seawright - who is the founder of locally-based aid agency ReliefAid, has just re-entered Syria for the first time since the fall of the Assad regime last December.

Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria are calling for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic ...

Umm Nidal sits outside her tent in northern Idlib, laundering a large pile of clothes by hand. The water in the large bucket ...

Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, covering major issues and developments around the world.

Francis X. Rocca covered the Vatican and global religion for The Wall Street Journal. A native of Washington, D.C., he has ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

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Assad's regime collapsed in just 12 days, ending over five decades of authoritarian rule in Syria. A swift and coordinated ...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo will return for a new tour next year. Produced in association with UK Productions, Miranda Cromwell directs Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of Christy Lefteri ...

Nottingham Playhouse has announced its new Autumn/Winter 2025/26 season. The new season includes the world premiere of a newly commissioned play, the UK regional premiere of a bitingly funny comedy ...

In a deeply moving reflection, Patriarch John X and Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II described the case as "a fundamental matter ...

Humanitarians are seeking $2 billion to support Syrians through the end of June and have so far secured just $179 million – ...