As displaced people return to destroyed communities in southern Idlib, local initiatives are emerging as stopgap solutions for basic repairs and services, stepping into some roles that are the ...

University students who returned to Druze-majority Suwayda during recent sectarian tensions on their campuses were stopped by ...

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 ...

As Syrians return home, Turkey is losing cheap labor and small businesses, sparking apprehension about the future of the ...

HOMS — Around 1:30 AM on April 25, Muhammad al-Waeri and his family were fast asleep at their home in Homs city’s Alawite-majority Karm al-Loz neighborhood when a loud pounding on the door startled ...

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 — Coinciding with a sharp rise in sectarian incitement and hate speech, Druze-majority areas of Syria endured a wave of violence this week, including a major escalation in communities just ...

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 ...

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 ...