The Kurds call this area Rojava, “the west”, Western Kurdistan. The term itself is a quiet map of a wider Kurdistan and a condensed national claim. It is exactly the kind of self-definition a state ...
Investigators have detained members of Syria’s security and military services over sectarian violence in Sweida. The clashes ...
Under a US- brokered deal in September to reconcile the Syrian government with the Druze, authorities in Damascus committed to prosecuting those involved in violence against civilians during an attack ...
Secular Israelis receive roughly 46 percent of the exemption certificates because secular Israelis are 45 percent of the ...
Nearly a year on from the fall of Assad, Syrians still lack many basic necessities as the transitional government works to ...
Meanwhile, the Autonomous Government of North and East Syria continues to firmly protect its own armed forces, its existence, ...
Yarden Garzon has found a community to embrace her at Maryland, but she still worries for her twin sister and family in ...
Campaigning for the persecuted church can be emotionally and physically exhausting. I’ve looked at bloody, terrifying scenes ...
I spent the summer of 2014 teaching art at an Arab school in Nazareth, Israel. I lived with Christian Israeli Arabs. They enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle and had Jewish, Muslim, ...
But that’s exactly what happened when Donald Trump welcomed his Syrian counterpart, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to Washington on ...
Syrian-Canadian activists say the connections are a testament to the soft power Ottawa gained by taking in more than 44,000 Syrian refugees during the country’s 2011-2024 civil war. There were already ...
A coalition of Syrian militias has called for 'liberation' of the country's coast, and mounted a significant challenge to ...