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After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...
ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers ... Today, entire residential neighborhoods are ...
I found myself in a taxi crossing the Lebanese-Syrian border, returning home for the first time in eight years. The night before, I had flown from Paris to Beirut, the two cities in which I’d ...
Shehada, a returning Syrian refugee, tends to flowering shrubs near the rubble of his destroyed house in Qabr Fiddah, Hama ...
A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb ...
Much of it now lies in ruins Before ... to go out at night in Homs,” she told me. “Everyone is scared. No one is returning to normal life.” Homs is where the heart is Homs, Syria’s third ...
"Movement at night was prohibited ... Iran is not welcome in Syria. After years of expanding its military presence, everything Tehran built is now in ruins, both on the battlefield and, it ...
Located in the Syrian desert, it is renowned for its 2,000-year-old Roman-era ruins. It is now marked by shattered columns and damaged temples. Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011 and ...
ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...