In December, rebel leader Ahmed al-Shaara proclaimed a new and free Syria. The former jihadist recently sat down with 60 ...

Without some form of transitional justice to address sectarian violence, the country risks slipping back into chaos ...

The 2025 Syrian parliamentary elections, which took place on October 5, 2025, occasioned a monumental, yet cautious, step in ...

Syria’s foreign minister arrived in Lebanon’s capital on Friday as the two neighbors attempt to reset relations which have ...

Three provinces will not be included "for security reasons", amid concerns over how representative the polls will be.

In Syria, the new government's effort to disband militias and create a national army has run into roadblocks. One of them is the Druze religious minority. It says it is keeping its weapons because it ...

Results from the first parliamentary elections since the fall of Bashar al-Assad show only 13% of seats were won by female ...

Henry Hamra, who is running for Syria’s parliament ending a 58-year ban on Jewish candidates. (Right) Syrian President Ahmed ...

This month will mark the second anniversary of the start of the Syrian civil war, and after two years of violence and destruction the number of citizens who have fled to neighboring countries has ...

This text was written and published in Arabic before the recent dramatic events of Sweida, which in many ways confirmed the argument of this article. The military escalation in Sweida followed ...

Signing up for aid, 19-year-old Yahya recounted his long ordeal. After being trapped by the fighting for more than two years in his native city of Homs, he was evacuated earlier this year and traveled ...