Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

The Trump administration’s unprecedented freeze on foreign aid has caused chaos and uncertainty in a camp holding thousands ...

Syrian sources reported this morning (Sunday, 9 February) of Israeli airstrikes on the provinces of Damascus, Tartous, Daraa and Quneitra Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Local sources in Syria reported ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces ... 1918 Damascus and Aleppo were separate administrative provinces within the Ottoman empire. These regions, or vilayets ...

Hospitals workers say at least 19 people were killed all but one of them women when a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a ...

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...

A map of the al-Hol detention camp hangs on the office wall of the camp in northeastern Syria's Hassakeh province, where tens ...

An Apache helicopter patrolled the outskirts of the city of Hassakeh as a heavily loaded pickup truck, filled with displaced ...

What was not normal was being constrained to two provinces. The civil defense has an advanced administrative and operational ... Given what I have laid out, it is difficult to clear the entire map of ...

Not until the 20th century was there a Syrian state. Under Ottoman rule from 1516/7, Bilad Al-Sham was divided into provinces (vilayets) and sub-provinces (sanjaks), generally centering on a city: ...

Another car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a city in northern Syria on Monday, killing at least 20 people and leaving over a dozen wounded, officials and emergency responders said. At least 18 ...