Today, Syria’s universities – like many of the country’s social institutions – are, essentially, collapsing. Watenpaugh estimates they’re operating at 50% capacity, ...

Universities in Syria, which had been closed since Dec. 8 due to uncertainty following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, resumed education on Monday.

Syria’s cabinet has issued a decree formally ending the half-century-old militarization of higher education. The decision, which is being applied to all colleges and universities in Syria, will ...

Arnaut hinted broadly that universities would be gender-segregated under the new government: “Syrian universities already exhibit many positive ways of proceeding, but these need to be ...

Now, the estimated 100,000 university-qualified refugees currently scattered throughout the Middle East and Europe must place their hopes in schools outside Syria—and that’s to say nothing of ...

Primary schools around Syria will close down indefinitely next week amid a severe increase of coronavirus cases in the war-torn country, while universities will suspend classes for only two weeks ...

Fearing an ever-secular Syria might turn to radical Islam, authorities has quietly banned the niqab, a face-covering veil worn by some Muslim women, in public universities — a move welcomed by ...

Updated 6:18 p.m. ET. BEIRUT Twin blasts ripped through a university campus in Syria's largest city on Tuesday as students were taking exams, setting cars alight, blowing the walls off dormitory ...