Syria is reconnecting to global financial markets, but ordinary Syrians continue to struggle with soaring living costs. Can ...

Assad is gone, but Syria’s revolution is far from over. Journalist and author Anand Gopal tells Syria Direct why the struggle ...

Can you truly know a city you love? In this personal review of The Book of Damascus, Tam Hussein explores the hidden lives, ...

Syrian Kurds protest the introduction of Arabic-language instruction in schools, raising fears over Kurdish identity, ...

AMMAN: The rebel government of Hay’at Tahrir a-Sham in northwest Syria is positioning itself as the only opposition authority in the region after giving its main political rival—the Syrian Interim ...

In his great poem “Easter, 1916,” the Irish Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats describes revolution as a “terrible beauty.” The phrase captures the poet’s ambivalence. He saw the revolutionaries as foolish; he ...

QAMISHLI — Standing outside the municipal stadium in Qamishli, Assem Abdullah Hamou, 51, and his brother joined dozens of other stateless Syrian Kurds holding sheaves of documents on Monday. In their ...

IDLIB — In opposition-held northwestern Syria, some women are breaking through challenges of displacement and life in the camps to launch their own businesses. One of them is Safa al-Mousa, a ...

QAMISHLI — At her home in Syria’s northeastern Qamishli city, high school student Sima Ahmed sits down to study and do her homework in Kurdish, her mother tongue and the language that “reflects my ...

MAARAT AL-NUMAN — A spike in fuel prices has triggered days of mass protests across eight of Syria’s provinces, including Idlib, the historic stronghold of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in northwestern ...

PARIS — Last week, internationally sanctioned Syrian businessman Muhammad Saber Hamsho completed a financial settlement with the country’s new government, a step he described as “opening a new chapter ...

PARIS — Following months of stalemate, a prisoner exchange between the Syrian government and the National Guard in Suwayda at the end of February stirred stagnant waters in the Druze-majority southern ...