“You’re wanted by branch 235,” the man told him, smiling as he delivered the news. “The intelligence branch.” Mr. Togan, a journalist who worked for opposition Syrian media when the old ...

I stood beneath the January sun, locking eyes with a Birangona woman on a balcony above me. Her warm smile steadied my ...

An investigation by NPR suggests that by 2014, Syria's most notorious intelligence agency had decided to move the children of women they were detaining to ... from a photo al-Farra keeps on his phone: ...

Since the downfall of the Baathist regime, Syrians have been speaking more freely about their future – and their doubts in ...

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.”  “Its green valley extends east as far as the eye can ...

Journalists Daham Al-Assad and Guillaume Perrier visited French jihadist Omar Diaby, also known as “Omsen,” in Harem, Syria, ...

The Loran Award program, founded in 1988, provides ongoing networking and training to empower honourees who show willingness ...

After a week that saw Washington turned upside down by the now-infamous group chat among top Trump administration officials, ...

On March 26, the tragic news of Anna Prokofieva's death, a courageous war correspondent for Moscow’s Channel One, ...

BYLINE RUTH SHERLOCK: Hundreds of people are arriving here outside the front of Gemelli Hospital in Rome, and they’re smiling. And it’s a sunny day ... After thanking everyone, he says, “I see this ...

"Just take my smile." ISIS "did stuff to ... their dominion over swathes of Iraq and Syria, massacring thousands of people and forcing more than 7,000 women and girls into sexual slavery.