Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once ...

Turkey has sent firefighting aircraft and vehicles to Syria to help combat wildfires in the Latakia region. A Syrian official ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

Scale of devastation in 2025 due to Israel’s hostilities and Iranian response places Türkiye in an important, critical and ...

Soon after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, I met a senior lawmaker in the Likud party who explained to me in detail how Israel would use the ...

Tucked away in bulging files were secret communiqués from Syria’s intelligence services, seen by a Journal reporter, instructing the ministry to transfer detainees’ children to orphanages.

From wanted jihadist to statesman embraced by world leaders, Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has undergone a stunning transformation in just six months since ousting longtime strongman ...

Syria’s Missing Children Children of detainees disappeared in orphanages. As many remain unaccounted for, their relatives fear the worst. June 3, 2025, 1:00 PM ...

An investigation by NPR suggests that by 2014, Syria's most notorious intelligence agency had decided to move the children of women they were detaining to at least four orphanages across Damascus.

A bedroom in an orphanage that houses orphaned and abandoned children in the Syrian capital Damascus. These orphanages have faced the wrath of Syrians since the Assad regime was toppled in early ...