As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syrias Assad regime, the ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

but foreign currency reserves had dwindled from approximately $18bn before the war to about $200m, they said. Sabrine is the second woman who has been appointed by the new Syrian administration ...

noting that many of these women started from scratch. Reflecting on the oppressive past, she added: "We couldn’t speak out before; doing so would have consequences. The Syrian people were in ...

Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...

Idlib was known as one of the country’s most conservative cities before the war and ... parts of Syria. The city became a rebel-run statelet governed by Islamic law. Nearly all women wore ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

Agriculture has suffered, too. Syria was once a net exporter of wheat, though a long drought left farmers struggling even before the war. Harvests have shrunk by nearly half since 2010 ...

DAMASCUS -Two weeks after seizing power in a sweeping offensive, Syria’s ... with the war-ravaged country’s new leaders, urging them to guarantee protections for women and minorities.