Tag: Syria

PALMYRA, Syria—Not long after the Islamic State arrived, 15-year-old Abd al-Hamid al-Ali realized he had to escape. It was 2015, the zenith of Syria’s ruinous civil war. Palmyra, a modern ...

The fighting in the Syrian city of Sweida appears to have finally come to an end this week after the last of several declared cease-fires took hold. The Druze and ...

Eight months after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria is still a source of instability in the heart of the Levant. The horrifying violence that took place in the ...

When Ahmed al-Sharaa swept to power in Syria in December and set up an interim government in Damascus, he brought along a group of people he’d been working with for ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we are wondering how serious U.S. President Donald Trump was this week when he discussed the possibility of signing an executive order ...

In the thorny debate over how to handle Syria, U.S. President Donald Trump has surprisingly emerged as a realist, a pragmatist, and a man of nuance. Since the December 2024 ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a Syrian truce deal with Druze militants, a secret British relocation scheme for Afghans, and a deadly stampede at a Gaza ...

Dramatic footage has emerged of a Syrian TV presenter fleeing a news studio mid-broadcast after an Israeli airstrike on a building framed in the cityscape behind her was captured live ...

At least 30 people were killed over the weekend in clashes between Druze militia and Sunni Muslim Bedouin tribes in the southern Syrian province of Sweida. The Syrian Interior Ministry ...

“I want to swim in Lake Tiberias,” then-Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad told U.S. President Bill Clinton in March 2000, just months before his death. It was a striking remark during ...