The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are set to merge into the Syrian army after suffering major setbacks.

Under pressure from government forces, the head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, signed an agreement with ...

Deir al-Zour has been described as the most heavily damaged city in Syria by U.N.-Habitat. Traffic weaves past craters and ...

Sharaa has postponed his visit to Berlin, for talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, due to the political situation in his ...

Syrian troops fighting U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces seized the Omar oil field, the country’s largest, and the Conoco gas ...

Sharaa's planned visit to Berlin next week has been criticized by Kurdish and Alawite groups in Germany. Syrian President ...

There is a long-standing myth that Donald Trump is a dove. This myth has always been at odds with reality, but after the ...

“If Syria fails to integrate all armed forces and former opposition groups into its army, it faces an existential challenge ...

Young Adult literature has an interesting reputation. Sometimes, readers assume that because a book is shelved in the YA section, it should be full of light, easy-to-digest themes and stories only. If ...

Guests attend an information event on the status of refugees from Syria after the federal elections in the Town Hall in Norderstedt, northern Germany, on Feb. 26, 2025. — GREGOR FISCHER/AFP via Getty ...

The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has been widely framed as a "climate conflict" and a mass migration and uprising triggered by a severe drought. This very well-known and media-popular ...

Syria's civil war cannot be traced to a single environmental cause but is deeply rooted in policy and socioeconomic failures that increased agricultural vulnerability. The 2007-2009 drought caused a ...