Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The ...

Syria ended a 14-year civil war last year, but the humanitarian crisis continues. Here’s what is happening in Syria, and what ...

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This brief was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on March 12, 2025. Syria’s worst violence since the December overthrow of the Assad regime has reportedly killed hundreds, ...

There’s a sequence early on in Talal Derki’s documentary Of Fathers and Sons that makes your blood run cold. A cheerful preteen boy finds a bird and shows it to his father. The father recommends that ...

The Syrian conflict may be confusing, but we're here to explain the basics. A protester loyal to the Shi'ite Muslim Al-Houthi group, also known as Ansarullah, holds a poster of Syria's President ...

During the more than decade-long civil war in Syria, millions were displaced in the country and millions more fled abroad as ...

Pistachio farmers in northern Syria are facing one of their toughest seasons yet, as drought, pests and rising costs threaten ...

Many more wars have resulted from miscalculation than deliberate planning, and mounting blunders in recent weeks have significantly raised the likelihood that violence in Syria will continue to ...

Syria’s opposition needs to be more representative and inclusive, say U.S. officials mindful of the dangers of an increasingly sectarian civil war. But the scale of the challenge in creating an ...

The Syrian conflict began as part of the Arab Spring, aimed at overthrowing Bashar al-Assad and achieving reform. Over a decade later, Assad remains entrenched, bolstered by Russian and Iranian ...

An Israeli military operation on a Syrian village Friday morning turned into the deadliest attack by a foreign nation on Syria since the ouster of former dictator Bashar al-Assad last year.