IN Syria, the destruction from 13 years of war has become part of the landscape. There is barely a town or city undamaged or a community untouched in the spraw­ling country of 23 million.
Across the globe, iconic monuments and sacred sites—from Bamiyan to Palmyra—bear the scars of conflict, showing how war can erase culture, memory, and history in an instant. Here is a look at seven of ...
Ramadan rituals and customs in Syria vary from region to region. Although some of them have been preserved, such as the "whitening of the safra" with milk and the "sukba" between neighbours, ...
The leader of the Chicago-based band Bassel & The Supernaturals, Bassel Almadani, has described their music as “Syrian heart, ...
Syria has opened ⁠a ⁠newly reactivated air corridor ⁠from the northern city of Aleppo toward the Mediterranean Sea for ​use ...
Most Syrians stay because they don’t have the money or means to emigrate, the assistant pastor in Jaramana said. Others stay because they don’t want to leave their families or businesses behind. Still ...
A video showing a journalist reporting about fighting in Aleppo, Syria, in January was miscaptioned online as footage of an Iranian strike on a U.S. ​base in Turkey in March.
EXCLUSIVE: This was the kind of prison break officials say could have changed the region, and perhaps even the world, overnight. Nearly 6,000 ISIS detainees, described by a senior U.S. intelligence ...
QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — U.S. forces are withdrawing from a key base in northeastern Syria, officials said Monday, in what appears to be part of a larger drawdown of U.S. forces in Syria. Iraqi and ...
Revisit FRONTLINE’s documentaries on the Syrian war's devastating human toll, the journeys of refugees, the foreign interventions and the long shadow of the conflict.
Samya, a young Greek Orthodox mother in Latakia, Syria, stood frozen before her mirror, tears streaking the faint makeup she dared to wear. Her hands trembled as she wiped it away, because the mayor's ...