RAQQA, Syria: After two years on the run with Daesh (ISIS), Umm Mahmoud just wanted to return home. When she finally made it to Raqqa with her daughters and...
DARBASIYAH, Syria: The creation of a so-called “safe zone” in northeastern Syria has gotten off to good start, with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces pulling...
BEIRUT: For days, Lebanese TV stations were airing blanket live coverage as lawmakers held heated debates over a controversial austerity budget meant to...
BEIRUT: The father could hardly bear seeing his 18-month-old daughter’s panic every time the Syrian government warplanes flew over their home. Every day for a...
IRBIL, Iraq: It was looking to be a good year for farmers across parts of Syria and Iraq. The wettest in generations, it brought rich, golden fields of wheat...
BEIRUT: Thousands of documents purportedly collected from abandoned Syrian government offices during the country’s civil war reveal the reach of...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s health minister named to the post by Hezbollah said Saturday he had overcome U.S. concerns about his ministry potentially funneling...
BAGHOUZ, Syria: War is personal. And in Syria, after eight years of a grinding conflict, there are as many stories of loss, dispossession and desperate hope...
BAGHOUZ, Syria: As defeat looms, militants of Daesh (ISIS) have remained organized and ruthless to their last breath. Keeping institutions functioning in...
BEIRUT: The Daesh (ISIS) gunmen came out of hiding in the middle of the night and set up a checkpoint on a rural road in eastern Syria. For several hours,...
MAIS AL-JABAL, Lebanon: As Israeli excavators dug into the rocky hills along the frontier with a Lebanese village, a crowd of young Lebanese men gathered to...
MASNAA, Lebanon: Lebanese exporters rejoiced last month when the Syrian government opened a key land crossing with Jordan that had been closed by years of...
ISTANBUL: Friends say Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a proud Arab who wanted to set up a base in his ancestral homeland of Turkey, contributing to the...
BEIRUT: The call came Saturday night. In the raging war zone that is southwestern Syria, with enemy forces on the march, 98 White Helmets volunteers brought...
WASHINGTON: U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Tired and aching with arthritis, Dahouk al-Omar lugs a purse stuffed with all her personal documents to the catering kitchen where she works...
AL-BAB, Syria: A newly paved road links the Turkish town of Elbeyli to its Syrian sister, Al-Bab, across the border. In Al-Bab, Turkish and Syrian flags line...
JARABLUS, Syria: Nearly 50 children orphaned by the Syrian war escaped the hell that was their hometown of Aleppo after they appeared in a distressing video...
AL-BAB, Syria: The family of seven is crammed into a single tent in a squalid and overcrowded camp for those who fled the fighting near the capital, Damascus....
QAMISHLI, Syria: The “Defense of the People” Court is an almost intimate place. Three judges – two men and a woman – sat behind a large desk. The defendant, a...
TAL ARBOUSH, Syria: The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colors of the Assyrian flag, jumped into the middle of the...
BEIRUT: After seven years of war in Syria, the United Nations has one thing to say: Stop the war on children. The numbers speak for themselves. Of...
BEIRUT: There have been many goodbyes in Eastern Ghouta – more than 600 in the past two weeks. That is the estimated number of civilians killed in the Syrian...
BEIRUT: A rescue worker portrayed in a Syrian film nominated for an Academy Award is waiting in his war-torn country for a visa to the U.S. to attend what...
BEIRUT: One-month-old Heyim Hassan was receiving treatment for a chest infection in the Afrin general hospital in northern Syria when a shell landed a few...