SFAX, Tunisia: It only took 10 minutes for Fakher Hmidi to slip out of his house, past the cafes where unemployed men spend their days, and reach the creek...
TUNIS: As the crowds gathered outside the ornate, colonial-era theater in Tunis’ Bourguiba Street after exit polls declared a landslide election win for Kais...
TUNIS: An exit poll showed the moderate Islamist Ennahda party narrowly emerging as the largest party in Tunisia’s parliamentary elections Sunday, but...
TUNIS: Dissatisfaction with established parties in Tunisian politics means Sunday’s parliamentary elections may not yield a clear winner, complicating...
AL-ALIA, Tunisia: The annoyance among voters in the hilltop town of Al-Alia shows the dilemma facing Tunisia’s moderate Islamist Ennahda party as it seeks to...
TUNIS: Eight presidential candidates stood behind their podiums aiming to impress Tunisian voters Saturday evening in the young democracy’s first-ever...
TUNIS: Tunisia’s Defense Minister Abdel-Karim Zbidi will amend the constitution if he wins September’s presidential election to end an “unreasonable” division...
ALEPPO, Syria: In the old khan, a stone courtyard off Aleppo’s medieval souk, most of the 41 cloth shops are deserted. Many of the owners moved...
ALEPPO, Syria: Swaddled in white towels, the Mansour and Wafai families sat in an arched alcove of Aleppo’s Bab al-Ahmar public bathhouse, reviving...
ALEPPO, Syria: When Hassan Ahmed al-Aoul looks from his balcony in the historic Syrian city of Aleppo, little meets his gaze but ruins great mounds of rubble...
ALEPPO, Syria: The bodies of three-year-old Malak Kasas and two neighbors still lie under a pile of rubble in Aleppo's Kalasa district more than two years...
BEIRUT: As the bus pulled out of a Beirut car park heading for Damascus, Ahmed Sheikh waved from the window, excited, he said, to be returning home to Syria...
HASSIA, Syria/GENEVA: At an Iranian government-owned car plant near Homs, the small number of vehicles on the assembly line underscores the obstacles hobbling...
DAMASCUS: Syria’s National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again Sunday, seven years after war forced it to close and...
DAMASCUS: Mohammed Abu al-Khair sends 25 buses a day from the Syrian capital Damascus to Aleppo, an eight-hour trip that until recently took up to two days....
DAMASCUS: Syria’s government is showcasing its ambitions for economic recovery and engagement with foreign business at a trade fair, but glimpses of...
BEIRUT: As Syrian President Bashar Assad attempts to turn military success into postwar reconstruction, Western sanctions are a major obstacle that could...
BEIRUT: Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of the Daesh (ISIS) caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have...
AMMAN/ALEPPO, Syria: When Syria’s civil war came to the industrial city of Aleppo in 2012, two textile makers had to choose whether to stay or move...
BEIRUT: The Syrian army and its allies are fighting to secure and expand a precarious corridor to their comrades in Deir al-Zor a day after they smashed...
ALEPPO, Syria: Aleppo’s Old City, shelled, burned and shot up during years of fighting in Syria’s civil war, can be rebuilt, the local...
ALEPPO, Syria: On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner’s widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more...
ALEPPO, Syria: Kurdish fighters wearing the blue eagle insignia of the Asayish security force stopped the taxi entering the Sheikh Maqsoud district in Aleppo,...
ALEPPO, Syria: In eastern Aleppo, bodies still lie under the rubble, graveyards are full, people are short of electricity and bread, and some children take...
ALEPPO: The sculpted mud domes of the villages southeast of Aleppo are collapsing from war damage and neglect after years on the front line between Syria’s...