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Syria’s worst drought in decades has wiped out rain-fed crops and diminished yields across the country, devastating farmers ...
With the war over, Syrians face a new struggle: addressing past harms and building a peaceful future together. With ...
HASAKAH/PARIS — A round of negotiations set to get underway on Friday between Syria’s transitional government and a delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) was ...
IDLIB — In early April, Muhammad Abdulkarim Tannari’s half-decade of displacement finally ended when he returned with his family of five to Maarat al-Numan, a city in the south of Syria’s northwestern ...
QAMISHLI — At her home in Syria’s northeastern Qamishli city, high school student Sima Ahmed sits down to study and do her homework in Kurdish, her mother tongue and the language that “reflects my ...
PARIS — Local forces affiliated with the Damascus government’s General Security Directorate were killed and injured in an ambush in western Suwayda on Tuesday, in the latest outburst of violence as a ...
PARIS — Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure in the southern province or the primary representative of his ...
DARAYYA/DOUMA — In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.” “Its green valley extends east as far ...
DAMASCUS/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the ...
PARIS — The commander of the new Syrian Ministry of Defense’s South Division, Colonel Bunyan al-Hariri, sat down with representatives of Arab clans in Daraa, Suwayda and Reef Dimashq on Wednesday in ...
MARSEILLE — On January 20, United States (US) President Donald Trump threw the global aid architecture into chaos, issuing an executive order freezing foreign aid for 90 days pending review. The US is ...