At the heart of transforming Syria must be the development and safeguarding of women’s rights. This will prove a revealing lens through which to measure the sincerity of HTS’s professed reforms.

U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has said that formation of a “new inclusive government” in Damascus by March 1 ...

The trilogy is boldly violent, brutal, and grim, yet utterly compelling and hard to put down. And I’m not the only Polygon staffer who thinks so. Our guides editor Ari Notis recently described the ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...

For the first time in 13 years, Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh was walking through the streets of Damascus without fearing arrest. Long ...

Last week his officials announced a seven-person “preparatory” committee, charged with planning a national conference where a new constitution will be discussed. Critics say it is dominated by ...

While Syrians around the world are celebrating the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, they are still cautious about what comes next.

If Syria is to rise from the Assad regime's ashes, its people must resurrect the spirit of the 2011 uprising in the ...

Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh is leading efforts to rebuild Syria’s devastated medical infrastructure, working with the Syrian American Medical Society to deliver urgent care and train local health care ...

French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar Al ... weapons against its opponents in the civil war, which broke out in March 2011.

HIRRI, Syria — Mohammad Khalawi explains the devastation of Syria’s Deir al-Zour province through the scars left by the many conquerors who passed through during 13 years of civil war.

Syria then was in the throes of full-blown civil war, after the Assad government launched a brutal crackdown on a largely peaceful uprising that started during the Arab Spring. Now, Abu Qasra’s ...