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
War on Iran
Who are the Kurds and what does Trump want from them?
Inside Syria
Damascus authorities ban alcohol sales in non-Christian areas
War on Iran
Israeli commentator says Iran war will lead to ‘Sykes-Picot 2026’
War on Iran
Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen
Jonathan Cook
War on Iran
How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire
Soumaya Ghannoushi
War on Iran
Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran
David Hearst
War on Iran
Israeli society is intoxicated by war and the dream of expansion. It cannot last
Abed Abou Shhadeh
War on Iran
Obituary: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and dominant political figure
Iran Tensions
US-Iran tensions: How Trump was dragged into war
David Hearst
Occupation
Mike Huckabee lifts the veil on US backing for Israeli expansionism
Soumaya Ghannoushi
Queen Elizabeth II
In pictures: Queen Elizabeth II and the Middle East
Syria War
Syria: Civilians, including child, killed in Russian air strikes on Idlib
Heritage
Tracing the history behind the great Umayyad mosque of Damascus
Media
Prominent Syrian journalist's asylum claim rejected by France without explanation
Iran Tensions
Israeli strikes kill three and shut down Aleppo airport
Syria War
Turkey-Syria reconciliation: Will it really happen?
Levent Kemal
Human Rights
Shamima Begum: Canadian spy claims could jeopardise UK's legal case
Islamic State
Shamima Begum must face justice in the UK
James Brownsell
Islamic State
Shamima Begum was smuggled into Syria by Canadian spy, new book claims
Syria War
Turkey-Syria: The myth of reconciliation with Assad
Omer Ozkizilcik
Islamic State
Swiss woman faces trial over 'Islamic State' knife attack
Syria War
Children of jailed Islamic State women get an education in Syrian prison