Syria

Syria after Assad

Rebuilding Syria’s northeast: Damascus’ toughest test yet

After 15 years of Kurdish self-rule, control shifts to government, with security, integration, economic challenges ahead

Israeli commentator says Iran war will lead to ‘Sykes-Picot 2026’

Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen

Jonathan Cook

How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran

David Hearst

Israeli society is intoxicated by war and the dream of expansion. It cannot last

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Obituary: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and dominant political figure

US-Iran tensions: How Trump was dragged into war

David Hearst

Mike Huckabee lifts the veil on US backing for Israeli expansionism

Soumaya Ghannoushi

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow: Syrian author Zoulfa Katouh on survivor’s guilt and hope

Syria has detained survivors of Lebanese boat disaster

Death toll of Lebanon shipwreck off Syria coast rises to 100

Cholera surge in Syria sparks fears of uncontrollable outbreak in Idlib camps

During UN debate, Syria calls on US to leave, Oman praises Yemen peace efforts

Art and photography

In pictures: Beirut Image Festival makes a triumphant return despite Lebanon's economic crisis

How a Palestinian girl's death personifies Europe's guilt in Mediterranean tragedy

Pietro Stefanini

Oil refinery threatens health of refugees in Iraqi camp

Lebanon: More than 70 dead after boat sinks off Syria coast

‘Betrayal’: Fifa delegation to Syria condemned by displaced footballers

In pictures: Palestinian-Syrian refugee opens Iraq's first cat and dog hotel

Israeli troops cross into Syria, wounding man accused of throwing objects over border