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...
ALEPPO, Syria: In the rubble-strewn square outside Aleppo’s ancient citadel and under the scorched vaults of its covered souk, workmen are starting to...
ALEPPO: In the ruins of the Sabbagh textile factory in Aleppo’s Belleramoun Industrial Zone, one wall smashed open by shellfire, a Belgian-made weaving...
BEIRUT: When President Bashar Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is...
BEIRUT / ISTANBUL: Fighting between Turkey and Kurdish militias in northern Syria is complicating plans to drive their mutual enemy Daesh (ISIS) from its...
BEIRUT: The U.S. airstrike believed to have killed Abu Mohammad al-Adnani has deprived Daesh (ISIS) of the architect of its attacks on the West, as it faces...
RIYADH: Technical hitches limited the death tolls in three suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia but the apparent coordination of the blasts suggests militants have...
ASIR, Saudi Arabia: The hamlet of Watan Emsoudah represents the difficulties faced in Saudi Arabia’s efforts to preserve cultural heritage. Its...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s sweeping plans to overhaul its economy in coming years are matched by proposals for social transformation that extend to...
Under King Salman, Saudi Arabia is expanding its confrontation with Iran well beyond the Middle East, no longer relying heavily on Western allies to smother...
Saudi Arabia's National Transformation Plan, a pivotal element of the "Vision 2030" reforms announced in April by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,...
DUBAI/RIYADH: The participation of tens of thousands of young Saudis in a social media debate over plans to reform the kingdom’s oil-reliant economy last...
RIYADH: A former food executive and mayor of Jeddah with a reputation for pushing through politically sensitive reforms has become the ruling family’s...