PARIS — Last week, when Muhammad Abdulhalim (a pseudonym) returned to Syria’s southern Daraa province with his wife and children after 13 years in Jordan, a piece of the Zaatari refugee camp came with ...

AL-BUWEIDA AL-SAGHIRA — Bilal Abu Saleh, 43, stands dejectedly in front of his well. The water is there, beneath his feet, but he cannot use it. This late June morning, the sun is blinding, the heat ...

SUWAYDA/DARAA — Deema Saraya, 41, sits at one end of a long table in the vestibule of her family’s home in Suwayda, southern Syria, a cracked mirror at her back. As she raises her eyes, she sees the ...

PARIS — Working among the ashes, Syrian Civil Defense teams continued cooling and monitoring operations in the Latakia countryside on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after catastrophic wildfires broke out ...

IDLIB — Every day, water tankers roam the streets of southern Idlib cities and villages. It is an unfamiliar sight, and a sign of a deepening water crisis in the area since thousands of displaced ...

IDLIB — Taher al-Amin, 53, wants his job back. When Assad fell last December, this goal seemed possible for the first time in years—not only for him, but for thousands of former government employees ...

PARIS — Syrian authorities dismissed at least 200 security personnel in Daraa on Wednesday, citing “behavior violations and misconduct.” The firings came in the wake of a number of violations and ...

PARIS — In the new Syria, Ahmad al-Hayes’s star is rising. At the beginning of May, after being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, the once-leader of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya ...

DARAA/HASAKAH/PARIS — “I won’t plant a single dunam next year—it’s a losing business,” farmer Farhad Ahmad Sinjar said. For the past two years, he has watched his land produce less and less, parched ...

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 ...

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 ...